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The Black Friday Deals Athletes Should Shop
If you’re shopping up a storm this weekend for gifts for other athletes or stocking up for yourself (no judgment), here are our favorite sales. In general, we love Black Friday for getting electronics and cycling gear, especially for your indoor trainer setup and...
Goal Setting: Are You Missing the Middle?
As Peter has been doing a season wrap-up with many clients this past month, we've been talking to each other—and clients!—a lot about goal setting. Specifically, the most often-overlooked part the goal setting process: The MIDDLE. Not just how you'll get from here to...
Progress Strength with Limited Weights + Zone 2
In this episode of The Consummate Athlete Podcast, Peter and Molly answer listener questions on: Making Strength training for cyclists Harder with Limited Weights What is Zone 2 Heart Rate Trail Scanning to improve cornering and bike skills generally and Black Friday...
Training
First Gravel Training Plan
This 3 month gravel cycling training plan is perfect for your first 50 mile gravel race or for beginner and intermediate riders who want to learn to train consistently to improve their gravel racing and riding. BUY NOW via Training Peaks Is This Gravel Cycling...
How High Should my CTL or ‘Fitness Score’ Be?
This article will help you understand what 'Fitness Score' is and give you an idea of what a normal CTL or Fitness Score might be. First a Reminder of Training Stress Score (TSS) TSS is a training load metric that combines the volume (time) and intensity (power) of...
Weekly Race Training Plan
One of our most unique training plans is our 16 week Weekly Mountain Bike Race Training Plan, or what we call the 'Weekly World Champ' Plan! This plan is designed for novice/intermediate cyclists who are focused on racing weekly mountain bike (or cyclocross) races. It...
Racing
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Mindset
The 10-Second Shift to Make Every Training Session More Effective
I was talking to a mental performance consultant for my annual New Year/Resolution article I almost always write for Canadian Cycling. I'm always looking for a new angle, and as I get older, new angles tend to present themselves just because I see the world (and...
9 Ways to Make Your Office More Athlete-Friendly
Back to the office after working from home? Make your office—whether you work from home or commute to work—more athlete-friendly. Get Competitive Start an office pool for who can do the most miles in a month, or find coworkers who are up for friendly runs at lunch, or...
On Channeling Anxious Energy for Good (or At Least, for Neutral)
I admit, I am an anxious person by nature. I lean towards optimism most of the time, but the second there's a potential conflict, wrinkle, or—honestly—I feel like there's the slightest chance someone is upset about something, my default is a racing heartbeat, shaking...
Nutrition
Athletic Body Image: Never a Perfect Answer, But a Lot of Thoughts
We've been talking a lot on the podcast lately about identity as an athlete, topics like RED-S and racing weight, and how to be the happiest, speediest version of yourself—and I've talked a bit about my own personal takes on it, but I haven't ever really written about...
How Your Diet Can Help Keep You Calm
Can certain foods or a change in nutrition cure anxiety? Absolutely not. But... What I'm starting to realize more and more is that how we eat can absolutely change how we feel—and it's not always about what we're eating or drinking, part of it is how we're actually...
How to NOT Kill Your Sourdough Starter
I LOVE sourdough bread. It's super tasty, and for some reason, something about the whole fermentation / no yeast thing is just so fascinating to me. My amazing friend Karlee Gendron gave me a sourdough starter last summer, and after a few terrible tries on my part, I...
Lifestyle
How to Be a Good Hosted Athlete (Without Blowing Your Travel Budget on Gifts)
For athletes on a budget, host housing can make or break a season. In fact, let’s consider the numbers: if you have a host house in say, Athens, Georgia, for winter training, you’re saving potentially thousands of dollars in rent, electricity bills, internet, and...
Some Great Flying Advice For Making a Trip 110% Smoother
I have a flight to Spain coming up in a couple of weeks and I re-stumbled across a piece over on Thrillist about the unwritten rules of flying that I freaking loved... And of course, reading it made me think of a few rules of my own. I'm still not the smoothest flier...
My 5 (Everyday) Wardrobe Staples
As I keep packing and unpacking, I notice more and more patterns. Lately, I've been realizing that of everything I own, I turn to the same few pieces of clothing for 99% of situations, so I wanted to put together a full current list. And shocker, I know, most of them...
Women Specific
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Gear
My Experience with Oura Ring as an Athlete
I've been using an Oura ring on and off for quite a while now—I've had it for a year and a half, though I admit that I've been a very sporadic user. Or I *was* a sporadic user, I should say. I've been wearing it steadily for a few months now, and I've been pleasantly...
My Post-Race, Long Run or Hard Ride Staples
Lately, I've been trying to focus on post-ride and run comfort and quick turnaround to recovery and real life—especially since we've been camping and it can be really easy to end up sitting around in sweaty kit chatting about your ride or run rather than showering,...
A Few High Visibility Bright Pieces That I’m Loving for Riding and Running (Seriously)
Most of you know that I really, really hate color. Give me black, white or gray and I'm thrilled. Give me hot pink, and I cringe. I could get into my 'why I always wear black' tirade, but that's not the point of this article. The point is, despite my deep love of...
Videos
Drinking as a Skill – Episode 125
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQt4xw62GzU Peter comes to you live from Dufferin County Forest talking about the importance of training to drink / fuel both in technical terrain and intense intervals/race situations.
Fixing a Flat on the Trail – Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3H_ZvNQARs Peter gets a flat and changes it while riding Sycamore Canyon, Near Malibu California
Gear Bag for Cyclists – Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8V6sPBA7Hc