Posts tagged training

Overtraining is something that can take the fun and performance out of bike racing. The author describes his personal experience of a year of overtraining.

Nutritionist Kristen Arnold joins this week’s Training Tuesday to provide advice on proper nutrition for the demands of racing cyclocross.

Boston-based Team Monster Truck will be offering free ‘cross clinics this fall on Wednesday nights in Cambridge this fall. Read for more info.

The Elite Drivo is a new direct drive smart trainer compatible with popular training apps. We found a quiet, easy to use trainer ready for winter riding.

A good race day routine to ensure success, but as Coach Mayhew discusses, it is important to be flexible to deal with the unknowns of race day.

In part three of a four-part series (read part one on leg shaving and embrocation here or part two about caffeine and massage here), which …

Cyclocross season is in full swing, and if you’re anything like us, your race schedule and your off-the-bike responsibilites have you running around at a …

Back in July, one of our European contributors, Andy Ward, set off on training for the 3 Peaks Cyclocross Race, and created a beginners guide …

Sprints If you think about ’cross in terms of constantly varying power outputs at a steady threshold heart rate, then try to think about what …

Andy Ward, one of our European contributors who helped with our reporting of the Milton Keynes World Cup last year, is currently training for his …

Cyclocross is nearly here, and the UCI races begin a month from now. While last week, Adam Myerson explained the value and training behind sprinting, this week …

Racing in the off-season? You’re not alone.  In an earlier post, Adam Myerson acknowledged the value of training races, but only if actually used as training races. However, let’s say …

Water bottles for cyclocross? Brian Davis, creator of Fix It Sticks tools, created the Back Bottle, designed to quickly slide into a jersey pocket with the least effort possible. We put the bottle through its paces and tested to see how it stood up to cyclocross conditions.

Those of you who have been following our Technique Tuesdays may be already committed to gravel or road racing during the season. Others may be beginning to train for running …

In Issue 27, Michael van den Ham looked inward to strike the balance that we must all find before cycling begins to feel more like …

Last December, Lee Waldman was involved in a hit-and-run on Christmas morning, leaving him in the hospital with six broken ribs, a cracked sternum and a …

An oldie-but-goodie, we’re taking a look back at a great piece on training and riding at night. Now that we’ve changed the clocks and are …

One of the beauties of cyclocross is the relatively small training time commitment. ’Cross is a 60 minute (or less) affair. With such a short …

Want to be a winner next ’cross season? So do we, and there’s no time like the offseason to start getting race-ready. Last week we …

Don’t like riding on the roads but miss the thrill of competition? Already dreading winter trainer sessions? There might be a solution to make training …

by Jacob Fetty If ’cross is your primary partner, what should you be doing over the coming weeks to insure that you are giving the …

What do serious Juniors do in the off-season? A six-day training camp at the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland, under the guidance of coaches …

Lately, we’ve been covering the latest tech news, featuring great races, talking summer training and getting in-depth with some great racers. But we realized that …

Summer: a time to relax, have barbeques, hit the beach, and … get ready for cyclocross season. If you finished last season feeling like your …

Because no one has written much on nutrition for cyclocross racers, we at Cyclocross Magazine decided to ask Fitzgerald for some cyclocross-specific advice. As ’crossers, we have interesting nutritional needs: we race in all types of temperatures and climates, we go hard for 45 minutes two days a week and then recover to do it all again and of course, we do love the beer tent. We’re a nutritional enigma, trying to eat healthy surrounded by waffle carts and chocolate-covered bacon and trying to stay svelte for a long season that often isn’t a racer’s main season is a challenge in and of itself. It gets even harder when racers’ schedules demand a lot of recovery and travel time, and little by way of long hours on the bike. Luckily, Fitzgerald had some tips for us.

Building a set of collapsible barriers with PVC pipe is a piece of cake! If you’ve ever attending a cyclocross practice session, you probably have seen a set of PVC barriers erected. For one thing, they’re incredibly easy to break down and set up. An added bonus is that if a newer, more unsteady rider crashes into them (or if a seasoned pro comes in too hot and crashes into them), it won’t really hurt anything but his or her pride.

On Friday, we talked a bit about what to look for in a training camp. But today, we want to look at what exactly you …

by Seth Lincoln Going into the 2012 cyclocross season, I had exactly zero racing experience and searched high and low for information that might help …

Now that the season is over and you’ve most likely taken some time to think about your results from the fall and winter, and evaluated …

Done for the season? Put on a few extra pounds? Want to race better next year? While some of you may be hitting the trails …