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How Realistic Are Your Expectations for Future You?
I’m a big ‘when things calm down’ person. But here’s problem: I am lying to myself. I have a post I wrote 2016 where my now sister-in-law made a joke about me saying that things would calm down, then proceeded to list out a travel schedule that suggested things would...
Washing Your Cycling Kit: Dos and Don’ts of Laundry Cycles
Laundry. Specifically, washing (and drying) your cycling kit. Seems ultra-simple, right? Wash, rinse, repeat. Umm... Turns out with cycling kit, it can be a little more complicated. In addition to skin irritation—more on that in a sec—I was out on a ride yesterday and...
Group Rides in Training Plans & Including Heavy Strength Before MTB Race?
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, we answer 2 listener questions about training plans. Can Group Rides be Part of a Training Plan and how do you include them around intervals and steady endurance riding without over or under loading? The second...
Training
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...
The Best Advice for Long Endurance Events
With more races coming back on the calendar and more and more people setting their own big scary goals to tackle in 2021, we wanted to round up the articles and episodes that we've done over the last few years that will help you work towards that long endurance event...
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...
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Mindset
“The Art of Active Travel” is Now Available as an Ebook
After all of our time on the road and in the air traveling for work and training (and a couple of vacations), I've put all of my best tips into one place—and added a bunch of new content in the last couple of months! You can now download all of my tips and tricks for...
“Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David Epstein: Review + Final Thoughts
"Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein was this month's pick for the Athletic Bookworms for a couple reasons, but the main one is because when this book came out, we had a dozen people recommend it because it's exactly the philosophy...
The Generalist Athlete – Try new things
I was quite excited to have David Epstein on the Consummate Athlete recently to talk about his new book Range (which you can get here). His latest book looks at whether being a generalist with a varied background is better than being a specialist with a deep...
Nutrition
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Gear
Coming Around on the Fanny Pack (For Hiking, Living and Most Things, Really.)
I know fanny packs somehow became uber-stylish on the runways this past year, and now they're freaking everywhere (I actually just bought a rose gold one at Five Below because I am weak when it comes to rose gold/fanny packs). And in the endurance sport world, they...
The $40 Bib Short That Might Finally Convince You To TRY Bib Shorts!
I've been saying it for years and years: Bib shorts are a gamechanger for cyclists. They alleviate the uncomfortable muffin-top effect of shorts (not just how it looks, how it feels!), providing more breathing room and comfort and—if we’re being honest—they look more...
The REI Clearance Gear I’m Putting in My Cart (for 50% Off!) Today
REI is having a huge Boxing Day sale with 50% off a lot of awesome stuff, and I'll be honest, I did some shopping today. I won't belabor this point because I know everyone is busy today, so real quick, here's what went into my cart: Shimano ME3 Mountain Bike Shoes:...
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