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PSA: Wear Your Cycling Gloves
Cycling gloves are a bit divisive: There are plenty of people who won’t leave home without them, and I’d say an equal amount of riders who just don’t bother with them, or who consider them an extra but not a necessity. But much like the PSA I gave a few years ago...
Menopause for Active Women – Selene Yeager
In this episode of The Consummate Athlete Podcast, Peter and Molly interview Selene Yeager of Feisty Menopause and the 'Hit Play Not Pause' podcast. Topics include: Updates on research and best practices for Menopause Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) updates and...
Creating a Reusable Pre-Race Checklist
Quick tip for a smoother race day, whether you're already back to racing, just starting out or haven't raced in a couple of years: Make a checklist. This is one tip that gravel pro Alexey Vermeulen and I firmly agree on (and nerd out about in this podcast episode with...
Training
Climb and Descend Switchbacks on your Mountain Bike
2 Videos thanks to Canadian Cycling Magazine for capturing these thoughts and drills. Descending Switchbacks CLIMBING SWITCHBACKS
Constraints Led Approach to Mountain Biking – Rob Gray
Peter and Rob Gray discuss the Constraints Led Approach, Ecological Dynamic and Non-Linear Pedagogy -- which are a lot of big words that mean they talk about coaching and some different ways to look at coaching and refining your skill acquisition (practice!) Get Your...
Altitude and Recovery After Races for Busy Adults
We discuss Molly's experience adapting to altitude and then racing the Leadville Trail Marathon Running Race. Discussion of a question about recovery for adults after races and the different aspects that contribute to faster recovery. This episode is brought to you...
Racing
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Mindset
November Athletic Bookworms: “Back in the Frame” by Jools Walker
After hearing from people who loved reading Emily Chappell's Where There's a Will, I thought it would be fun for this month's book to pick another beautifully written memoir from another UK-based woman cyclist! So, this month we are reading Back in the Frame by the...
Feeling Guilty About Leisure Time? You May Be Missing the Health Benefits
A recent study found that "feeling like leisure is wasteful and unproductive may lead to less happiness and higher levels of stress and depression." Personally, I was not surprised at all when I read this, because it's a feeling I completely relate to. And I know I'm...
The Athletic Bookworms are Back! Our First Read + How to Sign Up for Our Virtual Club
The Athletic Bookworms book club is back! For October, we're reading Emily Chappell's Where There's A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent. I've had this on my to-read list for a while—Emily is an awesome human, one hell of a cyclist, and...
Nutrition
How to Fuel Your Trail Running
I love writing about all things sports nutrition—hence my book Fuel Your Ride—so being asked to figure out the best food and drink options and tips for trail running over at MapMyRun.com was a blast. I got to chat with some of my favorite trail runners in the process:...
New Favorite (Ridiculously Simple) Breakfast: Quinoa & Blueberry Bowl
I'm a huge fan of oatmeal, I'll just lead with that. And until just recently, I really, really wasn't a quinoa fan. But in The Netherlands after one trip, we had made a batch of quinoa in the rice cooker to go with dinner, and we had some leftover in the morning...
How Bikes Inspired a Nut-Butter Sensation
I love when I get to meet legends, and Justin of Justin's Nut Butter was no exception. Turns out, he's a serious MTBer, so we had a lot to talk about between that and my intense love of the Maple Almond Butter... Read the full article over at Bicycling here
Lifestyle
Long Drive Packing Strategies for Stuffed Cars and Vans
Another month, another long drive: this one was a 4 day excursion from Ontario to Alberta, crossing through the Badlands. It wasn't a leisurely drive, it was a race to get out to Canmore as soon as possible while staying reasonably healthy. We had to leave Saturday...
My Best Tip for the Professionally Nomadic When It Comes to Toiletries
I can't count how many places Peter and I have slept in the last year, or how many travel days we've had. So, you guys know we're getting pretty adept at packing and traveling. (You'd hope, anyway.) The biggest thing I've realized is that extras when it comes to...
Self-Care, Being Un-Trendy & Being Nice — Some Thoughts After 30
"I'm hitting a major milestone: 30, or as I like to call it, the Cut the Bullsh-t and Go Be Awesome stage." —Actress Olivia Wilde I don't even care that that quote isn't from someone more renowned for his or her literary prowess, or an important historical figure....
Women Specific
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Gear
What We Learned on Our 4-Day Camping + Hiking Trip (with Our Dachshund!)
As with all of our camping and hiking trips, my favorite thing to do afterwards is to take some time to do a debrief, thinking through what worked, what didn't, and how we could improve for next time. It's always a fun thing for me to think through how to best...
Your Cyclocross Race Day Gear List
Over on Bikerumor, I was tasked with rounding up the best cyclocross accessories to improve your race day, from start to finish. Let me tell you, this list is BIG. And whether you're a newbie or a cyclocross veteran, there are pieces of gear on here that can make a...
5 Things We Would Bring on Our Next Van Camping/Training/Crewing Trip
We recently spent a few days and nights living out of a van as we crewed for our friend Karen, and I'll be honest, it was not our healthiest few days. We were extremely busy with helping her complete 900 kilometers of trail, and yes, we both ran and hiked a ton in...
Videos
Cyclocross Cornering – Video
Today some quick shots from a very chilly Cyclocross Provincials here in Ontario. I really think it is worth sticking around or going early to watch other people racing. If you become a student of racing/riding and start studying the 'art' you can learn a lot without...
Rear Wheel Lift Development – Video
Today a look at developing the rear wheel lift for this 2012 edition of the 'bike skills project', live from a clinic that Peter did at Durham forest. The concepts around positioning and how you are lifting your rear wheel still apply many years later! Peter discusses...
Navigating Super Tight Corners – Video
Awesome Chance today to play with a situation where we MUST corner better, more agressively , with more thought to the next corner. The idea of 'turning out' to help get the front wheel wider and the bike as a whole (rear wheel) to track more favorably for the next...