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What Failure Taught Me About Goal-Setting
Most readers know by this point that my big scary goal that I’ve been talking about for years—a podium at the Leadville 100 trail race—didn’t happen this summer. It’s never about just the end goal. Hear me out. It sounds corny, but even before Leadville didn’t go my...
There Isn’t As Much Time As You Think (For Training)
Recently, Peter has been chatting with a few different coaching client about their goals, and how to prepare for them. This time of year, we tend to hear a lot of this sentiment that everyone "has plenty of time to train and prepare." But do they, really? When we did...
Unlocking Off-Season Success: Transition Phases + Using Session RPE
In this episode Molly and Peter discuss what a training plan or coaching might look like in the 'off-season', which is the periods of the year away from the competitive season. This phase is sometimes referred to as the transition or preparation phases and comes...
Training
The Best Advice For… Working with a Cycling Coach
Since the new year started, we've noticed an influx in people interested in optimizing their training and asking about coaching and working with a cycling coach. Obviously, every coach has different methodologies and philosophies, but we wanted to pull together some...
What To Do When You’re Stuck Between Gears
It is common for road cyclists to find that when they switch to a mountain or gravel bike, they continually get stuck between gears. Because the jumps between one gear and the next are larger on off-road bikes riders will want to pedal at 86rpm but find that they...
Why Warming Up (More) Will Make You Faster
Warming up and Cooling down are two topics you might have never really pondered, but they can be great ways to increase your overall endurance and hours on-bike in a simple way—that will make you faster! Said simply, warming up is the time before the workout and it...
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Mindset
Borrowing the “Define Yourself” Mantra—Across Training, Work + Life
I loved reading Deena Kastor's memoir, Let Your Mind Run, as our Athletic Bookworm pick last fall, and I was listening to a podcast today on my long run that referred back to the mantra she wrote about in it that she often thought about on race day and in training....
“Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David Epstein is July’s Athletic Bookworms Read
"Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein is 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 Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience” | Athletic Bookworm Highlights
This month, The Athletic Bookworms read The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience by Jennifer Pharr Davis, about FKTs (fastest known times) and the setting thereof. I was psyched to read a book on this topic by a woman,...
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Gear
Fit Bit added to Training Peaks
This is exciting for anyone who wants a 'cross-training' watch/device to follow/log their training on trainingpeaks.com and who already has a fit-bit Training Peaks now allows FIT BIT to send data to training peaks If you have a fit bit account you can...
Fall Favorite: Minimal Shoe Style + Comfort with VivoBarefoot Ryder Boots
It's hard to find a pair of good-looking black boots that fit our walk-heavy lifestyle: Even on 'date night,' we're usually walking the couple miles into town to go out, which means until I found VivoBarefoot Ryder Boots, I've been date-night-ing in sneakers. (Which...
Talking Fall Cycling Clothing on The Outspoken Cyclist—And a Few of My (Cheap) Favorite Pieces
I popped onto one of my favorite cycling podcasts, The Outspoken Cyclist, this weekend to talk about all things fall cycling kit and gear-related. (I love being a cycling fashion correspondent!) This week was a fun one, talking about how to deal with dropping temps,...
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