Choking on a cherry tomato wasn’t the way I wanted to go out. One night at the Amgen Tour of California Race Experience I got a cherry tomato lodged in my throat at the team dinner. I tried to swallow hard to get it down. I tried to cough. I tried to talk. Nothing worked. …
By Mara Abbott, Olympian, CTS Contributing Editor It has been almost two years since I left professional cycling. My chosen cycling sub-genre has always been road riding. Mountain biking is terrifying, track is worse, and the drop-in alone for a BMX race is clearly incomprehensible. Yet in my retirement, I have adopted a new cyclist …
By Adam St. Pierre, CTS Ultrarunning Coach Ultrarunning is often thought of as an older athlete’s game. Often, there are considerably more athletes in the 40+ age groups than the younger age groups, primarily because that’s the population more interested in running ultramarathons. But as parents run longer distances and inspire their children and …
The cycling community is always evolving, with veteran riders hanging up their wheels and beginner cyclists just starting with training for cycling. We see the complete range at our cycling camps and events, and as coaches we believe teaching the fundamentals is just as important as important as helping athletes take advantage of the latest …
By Mara Abbott, Olympian, yoga expert, and CTS Contributing Editor A yoga posture is the period at the end of a sentence. It may be important, but it is a very small part of the whole, signaling simply a brief space for pause before next phrase begins. The real meat of your yoga practice – …
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 …