Chris Carmichael’s Pre-La Ruta Thoughts
La Ruta de los Conquistadores starts tomorrow! After a year of training, four training camps (including a reconnaissance trip to Costa Rica in September), and an enormous number of hours on the bike, I’m finally in Costa Rica with the 10 CTS Athletes and three CTS Coaches who are going to tackle La Ruta with …
Getting Rolling in Costa Rica
Chris Carmichael and the crew of CTS Athletes, coaches, and support staff were up and out early this morning. The race starts tomorrow!
Living the Life
CTS Coaches work hard, just like CTS Athletes, but we also get to enjoy some great experiences. Lindsay Hyman traveled to Florida last weekend to guide some of the athletes she works with through their races at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships. She’ll be headed back to wintery Colorado soon enough, but before she leaves …
Follow La Ruta de los Conquistadores Live
Looking for the latest information about La Ruta de los Conquistadores? Lead Adventure Media has a Live Update widget here: http://leadadventuremedia.squarespace.com/la_ruta/2010/11/15/live-coverage-la-ruta-2010.html You can post messages to racers or support crews who are there, get links to GPS maps of the courses, and get up to the minute updates on the race, which starts November 17!
Bike Magazine Overview of La Ruta
As Chris Carmichael, a few CTS Coaches, and 10 CTS Athletes gather in Costa Rica for the start of the La Ruta de los Conquistadores mountain bike race, it seems like a good time to get some insight into the challenge that lays before them. Check out this overview that Dain Zaffke posted over at …
CTS Athlete Tracy Thelen’s Silverman Full-Distance
For the sixth year in a row, I made my pilgrimage to Henderson, NV for the Silverman Full Distance Triathlon. I had some pretty high expectations going into the race but knew that it would be hard to meet my ultimate goal with the training I had going in. While running a few marathons here …
Dallas Eakins LT100 Video
CTS Athlete Dallas Eakins spent 16 years as a professional hockey player and played for 8 NHL teams. These days he’s a coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, but his desire to compete didn’t go away just because he’s no longer a professional athlete. Check out the following video of Dallas as he prepares …
Carl Edwards Sweeps Phoenix NASCAR Races!
Congratulations to CTS Athlete and NASCAR Driver Carl Edwards for sweeping this weekend’s races in Phoenix, Arizona Click here for complete story on Sunday’s race.