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6 New Things I’ve Learned About Van Life
Van life is still intriguing for a lot of people, cyclists and runners in particular. On one hand, it's a great way to get to new trailheads and explore places, and a way to go to races and be fully self-sufficient. There's something really nice about bringing...
Spring Clean Your Nutrition: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Food
You all know that I loved The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo, and it's sparked a lot of joy in my life in recent years. I've decluttered the crap out of my gear closet, worked through easy ways to sell...
Should I Ride For 3 Hours on the Trainer?
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, Molly and Peter discuss a few listener questions. Firstly a question about when, why and how to ride 3 hours (or more) on the trainer. We also discuss logging TSS for strength (and why you might not want to) and...
Training
Training for Leadville, Altitude, Pacing – Eric Orton
Eric Orton is a running coach. Find him under the handle 'Born to Run Coach' on Instagram! He and Chris McDougall were on the show a few months ago discussing their book 'Born to Run 2' , and he returns to talk training for altitude, endurance, and training for the...
Early Season Gravel Races
We field questions from listeners about early season gravel races and/or 'spring classics' including Paris to Ancaster. Thanks for all your questions! Get Your Free Bonus from Athletic Greens - athleticgreens.com/mollyh - to receive your bonus of a free 1-year supply...
Travel, Languages & Mountain Biking – Raphaël Gagné
Today we are joined by Raphaël Gagné. He is Olympian and now Quebec MTB provincial coach at FQSC. Aside from his racing Raph is a world-traveler, speaks multiple languages and has been one of Peter's favorite training partners over the years! Download or find links in...
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Mindset
How to Pick a Challenge that Makes You Better
Challenges have been a hot topic over the last year: Without races many athletes have used all types of hard, if not epic, 'Do-It-Yourself-Events' to push their limits, to motivate training or to put their training to use. We love a good challenge for athletes,...
New to Cycling? ‘Saddle, Sore’ is On Sale on Kindle for $3.99 This Week!
From March 14 to March 21, you can get the Kindle version of Molly's book "Saddle, Sore: Ride Comfortable, Ride Happy" for only $3.99—so if you've ever wondered about saddle or short choice, saddle sores, or any other awkward questions, now's your chance to learn all...
No Training Vacation? Try a Training Long Weekend Instead
Even in the 'before times,' often we'd hear from cyclists and runners who wanted to have a serious training block, but couldn't take a full two-week riding-specific vacation, due to work, family or financial constraints. But here's the thing: as we heard from...
Nutrition
Gluten-Free, Ultra-Easy Pumpkin-Chocolate Chip Cookies
I'm not gluten-free, I'll start by saying. However, I am surrounded by people who are, and usually when it comes to cooking for our crew of friends, it's easiest to plan to bake sans gluten when possible. These cookies, I came up with while prepping for a "family...
Stomach Issues and the Bike: Best Tips
You write what you know, right? Well, I know biking. But, between us, my first published piece wasn’t about the joys of riding, or the best new bikes for the year. Actually, I wrote about poop. But in a bike-related way. Or at least, a triathlete-related way. I wrote...
Living Without Coffee—Quitting Caffeine
Those of you who know me, know that I'm kind of a bit of a coffee addict. I love my full French Press in the morning. I love crappy diner coffee. I love coffee at 11 p.m. in whatever "media center" we've set up. I love coffee mid-afternoon, I love bike rides to...
Lifestyle
Travel on a Budget: Travel Space Savers & Organizational Lifesavers
When you're traveling for more than a couple days, packing and dealing with life in general can get freaking crazy—and annoying. I hate when my stuff explodes everywhere in our rental/hotel/van, and Peter hates it even more. So, I've started to get (a little) better...
What You Don’t Need to Pack When Setting Up for Months of Adventure
10 Things I Brought for 5 Months of Travel ... That I Have Yet to Use So, I've already confessed to being an overpacker, but I wanted to get super honest and share some of the (looking back on it) ridiculous stuff I packed for this long (January til mid-April) trip. I...
Digital Library for the Road—You’re Probably Missing Out on Free Books (& More!)
If I carried every book and magazine I read in a month in physical copies, I would exceed airline baggage fees in just paper weight. The van would be so stuffed that we'd be using magazines instead of pillows. In short, it would be madness. For those of us with highly...
Women Specific
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Gear
How Do We Help Get More Girls On Bikes?
“How do we get more girls on bikes?” Molly gets emails, DMs and Facebook messages like this all the time from parents and coaches, and it’s an excellent question... but a hard one to answer. It’s something that we ponder all the time–it’s actually the question that...
Instant Gear Upgrade: Fold, Contain and Sort
Everyone knows that I (Molly) love to write about organizing gear, because I genuinely believe that if your gear is organized well, you get out the door for your workout faster, which means more time on the bike or on the run. So, it's not a shock that I'm also always...
“Walking Well” Teaches You Some Surprising Tactics for Walking + Excelling at Movement
“Walking Well” sounds kind of obvious, but let's be honest: how many of us (yep, including Peter + I!) are walking with a bit of hip tightness, a bit of weirdness in a knee, a little bit of a hunch from one too many hours at the computer? Walking Well is a new program...
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