There’s never been a better time to ride a bicycle indoors. That doesn’t mean you can’t also enjoy – or even prefer – riding outside, but there’s no denying that the options available for indoor cycling have never been better. Whether you use indoor cycling to augment your outdoor training, prepare you for indoor or …
As a CTS Ultrarunning Coach and Certified Mental Performance Consultant® (CMPC) through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, my own races are opportunities to “walk the walk” when it comes to mental performance strategies. A few weeks ago, a mysterious problem with my calves during the Javelina Jundred challenged my desire to persevere and I …
Epic 200-mile ultramarathons are growing in popularity, even if the absolute number of competitors is still relatively low. I love really long races and I’m pretty good at them. I won the 2025 Arizona Monster, a 300-mile ultra that took me 105 hours. Before that I was the 10th Female Finisher in the 2024 Cocodona …
If you do nothing else off the bike, do this short daily activation and mobility workout. Consider it daily maintenance for your body. It’s the kind of work that keeps your body running the way it’s supposed to. Mobility is the key to function. This workout helps you move well every day, lift effectively on …
Strength training is an established and recommended component of trail and ultramarathon training, but athletes still have questions about whether they should lift heavy, with relatively low numbers of repetitions, or lift lighter weights for higher rep counts? High-load, low-rep training develops strength, durability, bone density, and tendon resilience. Proponents of low-load, high-rep strength circuits …
With Daylight Savings Time ending this weekend, we’ll be rolling the clocks back an hour and ushering in the months of earlier sunsets. Commuters will spend more time riding home in the dark. For mountain bikers and gravel and road riders, it’s a great opportunity to clip on some lights and enjoy cycling at night! …
Ultrarunning continues to grow and many new ultrarunners enter their first events each year. If that’s you, we’re glad you’re here! New ultrarunners making the transition from marathons or from sports like triathlon or cycling sometimes struggle to establish reasonable objectives for their first ultramarathon season. What are reasonable achievements to shoot for in year …
Ultrarunning is highly dynamic, but one of the best types of exercise for ultrarunners is almost entirely static. Isometric strength exercises create great tension in muscles and tendons while joint angles and muscle lengths remain unchanged. Well, almost unchanged. More on that later. Some of the reasons isometric strength training can be hugely beneficial …
We all hear it: “You need to lift heavy.” And while lifting heavy has big benefits for cyclists, there’s a piece missing in many riders’ programs, and that’s control. Single-leg strength training is how to get it. If you can’t do a single-leg squat without wobbling around like a Weeble Wobble, heavy squats aren’t the …
There is nothing more powerful in endurance sports than accumulated training time. You can be a better trail and ultra runner next season because the season that just ended is in your training bank. Whether you are new to the sport or aiming to finish events within the time limit, win your age group, or …