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First Races of The Season + Gravel Trends 2025
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, we discuss Peter's first two early-season gravel races, HomeGrown Gravel and The Valley of Tears. We chat about preparation, challenges of early season races (e.g. weather!) and some take-a-ways on gravel equipment...
Live Women’s Talk with Molly Hurford
In this talk for the women participating in The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation's The Ride to Conquer Cancer and Northern Pass to Conquer Cancer, Molly covered: apparel and gear choice, saddle sores, chafing , pad vs. tampon, doing a bike check , training basics ,...
How to Handle Plummeting Motivation to Train
Motivation isn't all you need to succeed at work or in sport, but damn, does it make things a lot easier. Confession time here: I've been suffering a serious bout of low motivation / ennui / the blahs the past couple of days. Sure, I'm getting things done—workouts,...
Training
How to Sync Training Peaks Workouts to A Garmin Device
Many of our clients use the Garmin auto-sync function that takes a structured workout or 'workout download' and puts it on their Garmin cycling computer. This sync setup also can allow for automatic uploads for all of your completed activities so your workouts are...
Should You Use Heart Rate or Power? (or RPE?)
Use Heart Rate to control/limit Aerobic or low-intensity focused intervals or sessions and Wattage (and feeling/RPE) to guide your Intensity. Having a session goal (low intensity or high-intensity day?) and the feeling for the 'correct' intensity are your main...
Testing & Race Day Nerves
It is very common for athletes to struggle with race nerves AND test nerves . If you find training and intervals very fun and your numbers in those rides are great BUT at the same time your race results are hampered by start-line nerves and/or that your tests often...
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Mindset
Reframing Your Training Goals for 2021
Happy New Year! Now that we're a week into 2021, you're likely (hopefully) still excited about your plans for the upcoming season, and if you're anything like us, there are probably a few events that you're hoping to do. And while we really hope events will be back...
A Quick Way to Make Habits Stick This Year
New research has shown that helping others—doing good—can make us stick to our resolutions more than if we just make them for ourselves. But how does this help our admittedly often selfish goals in fitness? By digging into your why, and maybe shifting some of your...
A Reminder That Progress Isn’t Always Linear
This is something I've been thinking about as we wrote Becoming A Consummate Athlete and I was working on the Point A and Point B concepts, and then trying to work out a conclusion to a book about habit change. It's something I've been thinking about as my younger...
Nutrition
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Lifestyle
How To: Remote Work When You Don’t Have Easy Internet Access
For a couple weeks, I was living in a house with no cell service and no wifi. Basically, it’s a terrible situation for someone who makes her living … writing things on the internet. But there weren’t many options since we were locked into the house and...
Rainy Day Van Life: What You Should Know Before You Go
We've had a lot of great luck with camping in our van so far, but we had a couple of rainy nights at the camp we're at right now, and a couple in Louisville when we were there in November. And it's definitely not all adorably rainy Instagrams, it's messy, a little...
New Favorites—Timbuk2 Custom Tuck Backpack
I've been lucky to have tried a lot of cycling gear in the last decade, but I've realized that in the last couple years, my tastes have definitely shifted towards more neutral colors and simple designs, which can be harder to find in the land of spandex and neon in...
Women Specific
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Gear
Consummate Athlete Gift Guide 2020: From $7 to $99
For the active, outdoorsy people who already buy all of the sport-specific gear that they could possibly need, what do you get them for a gift? A bottle of wine is kind of generic, but a certain piece of specific running gear just feels presumptuous, or it's too hard...
The Healthy Office Athlete Gift Guide for Remote Workers
For newly remote workers, we wanted to put together a healthy office gift guide of some of our favorite things that help us stay healthier throughout long workdays that don't feel like they end since ... well, the office is only a few feet from the kitchen. As people...
The Cozy Gift Guide for Tired Athletes
Let's be honest, this winter season just feels different. And honestly, at Consummate Athlete HQ, we've been prioritizing feely cozy because without much racing happening and the general feel of worldwide anxiety and depression, we need that feeling of comfort. If you...
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