Tips for Staying on the Pathway to Audacious Dreams By Josh Whitmore, 2018 Masters MTB Marathon National Champion CTS Coach It’s hard to tell people about your dreams, especially the far-flung wild ones. Are you crazy for even considering them? Are they too audacious? What if you don’t achieve them? I can’t say I truly …
Intermittent fasting is worthless for endurance athletes. There, I said it (donning flak jacket…). You can keep doing it if you want to, just stop doing it because you think it’s going to make you faster. It’s no better or worse than other forms of caloric restriction There are three mainstream version of intermittent …
By Syd Schulz, CTS Athlete and Pro Athlete Packing for a race weekend is almost an art form. Should you bring that extra tire or just assume you won’t flat? Did you remember the coffee grinder, and your tooth brush? What about a pair of long pants? It might get cold at night. And extra …
By Jason Koop, CTS Coaching Director Author, “Training Essentials for Ultrarunning” Last weekend at the 105-mile Ultra Trail Mt Fuji, Dylan Bowman chased Pau Capell, (winner of the 2018 Transgrancanaria) for 19 HOURS, and passed him just 3 miles from the finish line to take the win. He closed 27 minutes in the final …
As an athlete is important to look beyond the event you’re preparing for right now, in order to see it as both a goal and step in preparing for what comes next. By their nature, cycling events represent an increase in training stress compared to individual training sessions leading up to them. The event …
By Mara Abbott, Olympian and CTS Contributing Editor My last column covered some of the mental benefits of a regular yoga practice. Here, I take the study of yoga for athletes to a level deeper and offer a few of the ways that the philosophical origins of yoga have influenced my athletic career. I do …
How Much Time Do You Really Need To Train For An Ultramarathon? Most of us are limited by time, with our ultrarunning training somehow crammed into busy lives. Taking an hour at lunch or waking up an hour earlier to get a run in is more often than not the way most normal people …
This week everyone at CTS joined the rest of the athletic community in watching and celebrating Desiree Linden’s victory at the Boston Marathon. The weather was one of the major players in the race, with strong headwinds and icy rain battering racers all the way. Desi showed, once again, that preparation, adaptability, toughness, and …
“If you want something done right, do it yourself.” That phrase has jumpstarted many companies whose founders recognized the right product either didn’t exist or needed to be improved. Uli Schoberer invented the cycling power meter nearly 30 years ago, and the early commercial versions of the SRM power meter were instantly recognizable by …
In a constant search for energy and performance, athletes tend to focus on the big macronutrients: carbohydrate, protein, and fat. They manipulate the percentage of calories from each, going from the classic endurance athlete’s high carbohydrate strategy to a Paleo-esque high-protein strategy, or even a high-fat ketogenic strategy. However, the foods we eat supply more …