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Eating for Training and Racing at a Hotel – While Staying Healthy and on Budget
If you're back to traveling for races or training camps, you may be wondering how to handle healthy (and filling) eating in a hotel. Here, we're digging into our best tips for those who want minimal muss/fuss (beginner), those who are willing to put in a minimal...
How to Take Your Cycling Training Outside This Spring
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, Peter and Molly discuss 3 questions around the spring transition to outdoor cycling training and challenges that adult cyclists face as the weather gets better, but remains inconsistent. How to add Group rides, races...
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...
Training
Doing a Post-Season Reflection
Molly and Peter reflect on their year and race seasons and provide questions for you to reflect on your year. They take those reflections and start to turn them into goals and plans for the year ahead. The next episode will look at Goal Setting for the next season!...
The 3 Best Phone Apps for Improving Your Training
Phone apps are a huge help for many things in our lives, but they also can be distracting and costly if you aren't careful. Keep it as simple as possible! These 3 apps are ones that have been on our phones for years that make our training more fun, consistent and...
Risk Assessment with Ashton Lambie
This episode goes over assessing risk from a few different perspectives. We include a short interview with Jukebox Cycling Racer (and World Champion). Peter and Molly also discuss an article on Consummate Athlete called 'On Risk' -- Find links mentioned in the Show...
Racing
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Mindset
Finding The “Best Version of Yourself”
I wrote a post about learning to love the process on the quest for the 'best version of yourself' a few years ago, and as I was going through our archives, it popped up and stuck in my head again. I was chatting with Hilary Spires for her Trail Running Women podcast...
Upgrade Your Sleep: Get a White Noise Machine
As a rule, Peter will fight me about adding any kind of gadget or gizmo to our house, but I recently snuck a white noise machine in and it's made a huge difference for our sleep quality. Since we've been at home a lot more these past few months, it's been easier to...
It’s Out! Get Your Copy of “Becoming A Consummate Athlete” Today
Hey everyone! We are SO excited that our new book, "Becoming A Consummate Athlete," is out today! This book represents decades of research and real life experience that we've had training and racing, but more importantly, a lot of what Peter has seen in almost 20...
Nutrition
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Lifestyle
How to Start Obstacle Course Racing – Lindsay Webster
OCR, MudRun, Fitness, Obstacle Course, Running, Strength Lindsay Webster joins us today to talk Obstacle Course Racing. Lindsay is the OCR World Champion and loves ice cream! She shares training tips, experiences starting out as a female OCR racer, helps us with our...
The Biggest Travel Hack for Busy/Crazed Travelers
A few weeks ago, we had a dear friend of ours on the Consummate Athlete Podcast, mechanic/team manager/all-around badass Scott Kelly. And something he said has really stuck with me as travel got even crazier at the end of December and through this month and the season...
Gut Health on the Road: Dealing with Digestive Issues
First of all: this article is not entirely about poop, if you were wondering. I'm talking about general gut issues: nausea while driving/flying, stomach cramps, weird hunger patterns due to jet lag, and of course, too little poop or too much. Being on the road a lot,...
Women Specific
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Gear
Review: Machines for Freedom Long Sleeve Palmera Jersey and Endurance Bib Shorts
Recently, I checked out a kit from Machines for Freedom, a women's cycling apparel company that I've had my eye on for a long time. You all know I love... a) a kit with neutral colors and simple patterns that fits well b) a black bib short and c) a really great long...
A Mini-Guide to Camping for Beginners
Over at The Everygirl, I was super stoked to write this piece about camping for beginners, since it seems like everyone is getting into it this season! Specifically, I wanted to put together a simple piece thinking through what it would look like if a novice camper...
Review: Velocio TRAIL Collection MTB Gear
I've been trying out Velocio's TRAIL collection recently, and I have to say, it's good enough that it got me excited about riding mountain bikes again! (I haven't gotten on the trail on bike this summer much, so shifting to it was a bit of a culture shock in the last...
Videos
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