I grew up in south Florida, lived in Belgium, and raced in the Netherlands. I learned a thing or two about cycling in wind, so it pains me to see cyclists make mistakes because they don’t understand the dynamics of cycling on a windy day. Sometimes it’s just because they haven’t mastered cycling skills or …
By Jason Koop with Jim Rutberg, Co-authors of “Training Essentials for Ultrarunning” This week I will be jet hopping across the eastern seaboard as well as over in Europe to record a few podcasts and support athletes racing at Transgrancanaria. With the ongoing COVID-19 (formerly known as the Coronavirus) outbreak, I did not take this …
By Chris Carmichael, Founder and Head Coach of CTS If I were to summarize recent articles, conversations, and podcasts that have caught my attention it would be to say, “Keep it simple, stupid.” I think there is a natural draw to make things more complicated or to place greater value on products or methods …
(Colorado Springs, CO – February 25, 2020) – CTS, the industry leader in personal endurance coaching, today announced the addition of three new coaches to the CTS Coaching Staff. Stephanie Howe, Sarah Scozzaro, and John Croom bring unique strengths to staff of 56 total coaches, and are available to take new athletes immediately. Stephanie …
By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning Let’s face it, training can often be boring. You do the same routes and there’s only so many ways you can (correctly) contrive workouts. You wake up, run, eat, go to work, rest, rinse, repeat. Most people have some vague pattern of run hard one day, run …
By Chris Carmichael, Founder and Head Coach of CTS I started noticing it about halfway down the Col de la Madeleine. In the group I was with, riders started shaking out their hands on the straightaways between switchbacks. Even with disk brakes, the effort of gripping the bars and using the brakes for such a …
February 19, 2020 Innovative Power Meter and GPS Computer Brand Teams Up With Legendary Endurance Coaching Company Boulder, CO — Stages® Cycling today announced a two-year partnership with Carmichael Training Systems. Celebrating 20 years in business in 2020, CTS coaches will exclusively rely on Stages Dash GPS computers and Stages Power meters, and Stages will provide …
By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning This past weekend, I spent some time coaching and observing runners at the Black Canyons ultras. Over the last few years, I’ve found this to be a good litmus test of how runners are approaching training for the upcoming season. The race is early enough in the …
By Chris Carmichael, Founder and Head Coach of CTS Not one of the athletes I coach works a standard 5-day-a-week, 9-5 job. I’m not sure how many people do anymore, and by the time all three of my children have careers I’m nearly certain no one will. With so much variation in people’s professional …
By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning If you want a quick fix or simple answer to all of your training needs, stop here. Go somewhere else and read another article as I’m not going to offer that up today. Every month or so, a new study comes out comparing one interval type to …