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Sea Otter 2025 Trends & Highlights
Molly and Peter discuss what they saw, what they liked and what they didn't like at the Sea Otter the Cycling Event 2025. The conversation includes the first round of the Lifetime Series and trends in bikes, gear and racing. This Episode is Brought to You By:...
Is Aspirational Clutter Slowing Down Your Training?
Whether we're talking about physical or mental aspirational clutter, you might be making your training harder—or at least, much more crowded—if you're not occasionally clearing out the gear or the goals that you've set for some idealized future version of yourself....
What to Do When You Can’t Follow Your Training Plan or Do Your Planned Workout
Modifying workouts is tricky business—so much so that a question around it comes up almost monthly on the podcast. Should you skip, swap, shift, substitute or shorten your workout? Or forget about the workout altogether and just do something? We chatted about this on...
Training
Rethinking Your Position with Katy Bowman
Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader in the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman is back on the Consummate Athlete Podcast to discuss her new book ''Rethink Your Position', which is an immediately actionable book to help in your movement, health and...
Finding Your Athletic Support Crew
I often find myself thinking about a chapter from our book Becoming A Consummate Athlete, titled "The Importance Of Finding Your Support Crew." If you're a pro racer, your support crew is likely pretty obvious. But for the rest of us (and even for pros when they look...
What to do with Wearables and Data – Sian Allen
Dr. Sian Allen (DrSianAllen on Twitter) is a Human Performance Researcher with a demonstrated history of working in agile & high-pressure industry R&D and elite sport environments. She wore an Oura ring & a Whoop band on the same hand/wrist for ~12 months...
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Mindset
Boost Your Mental Performance – Video
For Ontario Cycling's women's cycling week, I brought Krista Chandler, PhD, Mental Performance Consultant and Owner of The Mental Link as well as Professor at the University of Windsor Kayla Buck, MHK, Mental Performance Consultant and Erin Attwell, track racer for...
Vision and Attention, Part 2: Applying the Practice to Athletic Goals
Peter talked about vision and attention in a post last week about improving your mountain biking or road riding, and it got me thinking... could vision and attention also be applied to how we look at our goals, athletic or otherwise? The vision/attention concept is...
How To Stay Motivated… Even When Event Dates Keep Shifting
Over on Ontario Cycling's blog, Molly is writing about all things cycling-related, and this week, she's talking about a topic that we've been thinking about a lot in the past year: motivation without racing. While some people live in spots that are back to "normal" in...
Nutrition
Fuel Your Ride (Without Cookies): My Month Off Treats
A week ago, I was going to write this as the worst experience ever. But the other night, when we were getting dinner with my sister and her friend, a strange thing happened. Colleen's friend and Peter both ordered dessert and Vic's was this amazingly massive chocolate...
Fuel on the Road: Hotel Room and Travel Food Hacks
With Fuel Your Ride almost available (and already out for preorder!), I'm pretty excited. But I'm also increasingly self-aware about my own nutrition. I've been pretty good about taking care of myself and, well, fueling my ride both on and off the bike for the past...
Fueling My Ride—Seeing the Ride from a New Perspective
Here's a poorly kept secret: When you write about cycling, you don't always practice what you preach. That means there are some weeks where I barely touch a bike (those are sad weeks, but they happen). Sure, I train most days, but that might mean strength training,...
Lifestyle
Supporting Your Active Lifestyle on a Budget: Gear
I've written about the best ways to keep your active clothing expenses under control (quality over quantity here!) and how to budget for a serious need for cheap, healthy eats while on the road. And all of that, by the way, crosses over into saving $$$ when you're...
Fashion Doesn’t Have to Be Fancy
We recently had our good friend Charlotte over for a visit (and I am so freaking excited to have her on our podcast!)... In the couple days she was around, she and I got to shred on mountain bikes a few times, chill on the beach, and chat all things #VanLife and being...
Why a Healthy Morning Routine is SO Important (And How It Felt Losing Mine)
I *just* wrote a piece for MindBodyGreen.com about how HRV testing in the morning completely changed my day and my life... Ironically, though, it got posted the morning I headed to Sea Otter Classic, a cycling expo where I was working for Bicycling, doing a ton of...
Women Specific
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Pelvic Health + Common Cycling Injuries for Women – New Video!
For Ontario Cycling's women's cycling week, I spoke with two amazing women, Dr. Roz Lougheed Simpson of the Cleveland Clinic Canada and Laura Powers, a physio who focuses on pelvic floor health in Collingwood at Higher Function Women's Health. In this session, we...
Women’s Cycling Nutrition – Anne Guzman – Bonus Ontario Cycling Episode
Anne Guzman joins Molly to discuss the intricacies of women's cycling nutrition and physiology. Topics include: What is good nutrition? Eating for all-day performance Hydration Fad diets RED-S Easy nutrition wins for busy people Download the Episode + Links for...
A New Brand Enters the Merino Wool Hoodie Thunderdome: Velocio RECON Hoodie Review
I am very excited to announce that there's a new contender in the merino hoodie games: Velocio has entered the thunderdome with their Velocio RECON hoodie, and I am, predictably, here for it. But how does it stack up against other merino wool options? Let's dive in,...
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