By Reid Beloni, CTS Senior Coach We are about 12 weeks from SBT GRVL, which might be your first gravel race ever, or after last year, it might just seem like your first. In fact, it will be the first big event on my calendar since SBT GRVL in 2019! To help you (and me) …
By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning With the summer racing season right around the corner and many races actually looking promising to come back on-line in 2021, runners are starting to pay more and more attention to their training. Some are building back fitness from some extended downtime, others that have not …
By Chris Carmichael, Founder and Head Coach of CTS Power meters are everywhere, and now with app-connected smart trainers and smart bikes athletes indoors and outside are training with power. All that data is great, and advanced training software can help make sense of it, but as a coach I see athletes making two big …
By Alison Tetrick, Pro cyclist, Entrepreneur, CTS Contributing Editor Stop and smell the flowers. Literally. When was the last time you smelled a wild iris on your ride? Or noted that those purple lupines along the road smell like a wet dog? They do. I used to pick lupines for my Grandma and proudly present …
About this episode: In this week’s episode, Hillary Allen interviews Clare Gallagher, an ultrarunner and environmental advocate. They discuss the role athletes can play in environmental policies, how runners can find their niche in advocating for our environment, and why even small changes make a big difference. Episode Highlights: The environmental issues that are too …
By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning For the last several weeks, I have been running into more and more content that either alludes to, or outright says, that sugar and sports nutrition products are addictive. Lay articles, influencers on social media, and nutrition company marketing departments alike have been routinely sounding these alarms, …
By Chris Carmichael, Founder and Head Coach of CTS Optimizing performance for masters cyclists can be trickier than getting the best out of a 20-something professional athlete. The complexity comes from fighting the slow and natural decline in performance potential after about 40 years old, coupled with busy lifestyles that incorporate relationships, children, and …
About this episode: In this week’s episode, Coach Adam Pulford lays out the 3 most important cycling workouts you need to include in your training, why each workout is important, how to organize them in your training, and how to do them properly to increase your performance and durability. Episode Highlights: The 3 most important …
By Jason Koop, Head Coach of CTS Ultrarunning It feels a little strange to write about how to handle the heat when it’s still April. But, as I scrolled through my athletes’ comments on TrainingPeaks over the weekend, it’s obvious that athletes are contending with short term bouts of warmer conditions. This initial challenge, when …
By Lisa Bourne, CTS Contributing Editor & Senior Director of Diversity, Inclusion & Social Impact at Zwift So, there’s something quite spiritual about my three hour solo rides. This is the fourth year I’ve worked with a coach and trained for a May cycling holiday in Mallorca, though I’ve only been fortunate enough to visit …