CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE How to Prioritize Your 50K Training One of my biggest pet peeves about the endurance coaching profession is how we sometimes make things more complicated than necessary. Training for your first 50K is a great example. A 50-kilometer trail race is often …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE 24 Years of Cycling Coaching in One List What if I could distill 24 years of cycling coaching experience into a single blog post? That’s essentially the challenge I gave myself, and the list below is the result. Each of the points …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Downhill Running: How To Protect Against Muscle Damage Downhill running can be very hard on your legs, to the point that muscle damage from downhill running frequently leads to DNFs in ultramarathons. CTS Ultrarunning Head Coach Jason Koop has written extensively about …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE How to Nail Your Next 100-Mile Bike Ride A century ride, or 100-mile bike ride, is a right of passage for cyclists. In a world that sometimes normalizes extremes, like 200-mile gravel races and 100-mile high-altitude mountain bike races, you could mistakenly …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Why Training Volume Is King For Ultrarunning Performance Ultrarunners need to accept an inescapable truth: Training volume is the biggest determinant of performance in ultrarunning. That doesn’t mean the person who runs the most runs the best or the fastest. Nor does …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Torque Training for Cycling: How To Do It The Right Way Torque workouts are one of the misconstrued aspects of cycling training. Most athletes think torque training is simply shifting into a heavy gear and grinding along at a low cadence. That’s …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE 3 Steps To Personalize Your Ultramarathon Hydration and Fueling Plan Amateur athletes often try to copy what pros do and use – everything from run training to ultramarathon hydration and performance products. It’s an idea as old as time: if something works …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Sprints and repeated accelerations out of corners are the first things that come to mind when most cyclists think about criterium racing. As a result, the prevailing mentality is that anaerobic training is what makes the all the difference for crit-focused racers. …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE How to Train for an Ultramarathon at Altitude When You Live at Sea Level Every year, thousands of runners who live at or near sea level sign up for ultramarathons at altitude. Then the fear sets in. How can you prepare for …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Best Ways To Build Recovery Weeks for Cyclists Recovery weeks sound like the easiest part of training to get right. Take a week off. Rest until you feel fresh and ready to train again. After 20 years of coaching cyclists, I can …