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Cleaning House – Need Bike Parts?
Now that we’re getting closer to spring, it’s time to clean out the parts collection a bit. Check out eBay if you need any road, cyclcross, or triathlon stuff. Subscribe to the comments on this post
7 Rules for Snow Biking During Wisconsin Winters
I’m not sure why, but I couldn’t force myself to ride on the trainer today. I just had to get outside. So I layered on just about every piece of winter cycling equipment I own, and I hit the road. I ended up with about a 2 hour ride. My phone/GPS battery died about halfway [...]
Road Bike, Road Tires, Road Pedals, Road Shoes, Clean Pavement.
Finally a few days of what feels like freedom. The snow, ice, and salt on the roads are gone, for the most part, so I could actually get a few decent road rides in without resorting to the mountain bike or keeping the cross tires on. I wasn’t really going for speed this weekend, but [...]
Back to the Trails!
I put in two more “mini-rides” on Wednesday and Friday, just to keep the legs loose and focus on good technique while riding nice and easy from a fitness perspective. Wednesday I took the cross bike (and cross tires) through Bayview, and Friday I was finally able to get back out on the Grant Park [...]
Periodized Training for Mountain Bike and Cyclocross Seasons
I’ve been working quite a bit lately on developing a year-round training plan that will help me maintain fitness from year to year and keep me motivated during the off season to stay active. While training for Ironman, we did a lot of periodization, which essentially incorporates strategic amounts of volume and intensity, along with [...]
Week End Totals and Core
Saturday core workout: Thoracic Spine Extension and Rotation 3×10 each side Wall Slides with Chin Tuck 3×10 Reverse crunch 3×12 Bridge 3×15 Good mornings 3×10 Weekly Totals I’m taking my first stab at doing some periodization with my training throughout the year. There’s not a lot of reading out there on periodization specifically for cyclocross, [...]
Friday Ride
We’re out visiting Trisha’s family in Dickeyville today, so I was able to take in some new scenery. This is a really beautiful area of the state, the area which wasn’t flattened out by the glacier drifts, and I love riding here. The consequence of the land not being smoothed out is that I get [...]
Vanilla Ice Ice Baby
No riding on Tuesday, but got a good core workout in instead. Tuesday is my late day at work which means I have meetings until 5p and don’t get home until close to 6pm. As I write this, it almost sounds funny that I consider 5pm to be late, as six months ago it would [...]
