By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning This year’s Summer Olympics was scheduled to be a hot one. Tokyo, already known for hot and humid summertime conditions, would have been (and probably will be) hotter than the previous three Olympic host cities (Kakamu et al. 2020). Athletes, coaches and sport scientists will do almost …
By Chris Carmichael, Founder and Head Coach of CTS I’m not a quitter, and I’m sure you are not either, but as the old saying goes, sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. Last weekend at Unbound Gravel in Emporia, Kansas, a combination of heat and strong headwinds put a lot of riders deep …
By Reggie Miller, NBA Hall of Fame, MTB Racer, CTS Contributing Editor As I’m writing this blog, it’s conjuring up good and sometimes bad feelings about my athletic endeavors. Whether it’s throwing a no hitter in little league baseball, winning a high school state championship, winning a college NIT championship or losing in the NBA …
By Reid Beloni, CTS Senior Coach We’ve all heard the saying that “long gravel races are really eating contests that happen to involve riding a bike” The contest is not to see who can eat the most or the fastest, but rather can you consume enough calories and fluids to perform at your best and …
By Jason Koop, Head coach of CTS Ultrarunning Ultrarunner Timothy Olsen recently began his quest to set the Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the Pacific Crest Trail (track Timothy’s progress here), and I am part of the merry band of crazies supporting his effort from start to finish. For about the next eight weeks I’ll …
About This Episode: In this week’s episode, Adam Pulford interviews Russell Finsterwald for part 2 of their discussion on training for single-day and stage races. Russell goes in-depth on how he prepares differently and prioritizes recovery for stage racing. Listen to part one on single-day races here. Episode Highlights: Training approach for multi-day events Recovery …
By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning Over the past 12 months, I’ve slowly been siphoning some of my savings into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Up until that time, I’d been largely uninformed and unconcerned with this part of the financial sector, chalking up the whole space to something that resembled Monopoly money …
By Lisa Bourne, CTS Contributing Editor & Senior Director of Diversity, Inclusion & Social Impact at Zwift Climbing Mt. Lemmon by bike had been on my bucket list for over ten years – ever since I learned about CTS and the Tucson Training Camps. I was drawn to it for the mental and physical thrill of …
By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning Let’s face it, for many athletes it’s been a long time since you’ve had the opportunity to toe the start line. And, as races are drawing closer, athletes’ anxiety about their fitness is building. They look at their training logs through a lens of opportunities lost. The …
By Chris Carmichael, Founder and Head Coach of CTS Our coaches get a lot of messages that start out with, “I was going to ride, but…”, followed by an explanation that they didn’t ride because it was raining, or threatening to rain, or too windy, etc. Some move their rides indoors, but many just …