“Hadley has been asking about death a lot lately. Asking who is going to die first and if she’ll die.” “Yeah. So, what do you say?” “I tell her we’re born into chaos, spend our childhood wanting things we can’t have and dreaming about things that’ll never happen, and that aging is a gradual process …
Coaches in the circles I run in often joke that they wouldn’t have a job if athletes figured out that all they need to do to achieve 95% of their physical potential is the same five workouts, except they’d get too bored, so they need a coach to come up with variations of those workouts, …
The best Thanksgiving I ever had, I began wrapped around the toilet of our Airbnb until 3:45 am, spewing out every mouthful of curry I’d eaten a few hours prior. Every athlete should get food poisoning – it’d be good for you. Sure, athletes say they’re training for x or y but at the bottom …
The emergence of data analytic tools like WKO and Golden Cheetah allows coaches to analyze an athlete’s power duration curve and obtain that athlete’s phenotype. A Phenotype is just a fancy way of describing what type of rider an athlete is. For example, a sprinter has great power production from 1-20 seconds but comparatively lower …
You don’t know the fastest cyclist in New Mexico, do you? If I offered you $1,000 to find out in the next 20 minutes, what would you do? Yeah, you’d check Strava. After a cursory survey of segments in Strava, focusing on areas with population centers like Albuquerque and Sante Fe, a few of the …
Controversial Opinion – You don’t need a power meter to be fast. Read More »
I’ve spent years failing badly at bikes so you don’t have to. I have a mortgage, two kids, a wife, a dog that doesn’t listen, a weakness for Miller Lite, and fish frys – but I can still turn a pedal if I have to. Chances are we’ll get along just fine.
C’mon now – let’s get fast together!
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