By Mara Abbott 2016 Olympian, CTS Athlete, and CTS Contributing Editor Last week, I told my mom she was my athletic role model. If I had gotten a bigger eye roll in reply, she probably would have reversed her LASIK. The way she tells it, she was a complete klutz growing up, didn’t have the …
By Andy Jones-Wilkins CTS Ultrarunning Coach It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and as such the CTS Running Coaches and I thought it would be a great time to share a few thoughts on how we encourage our athletes to maintain loving harmonious relationships at home while running long distances, training for hours on end, and often …
By Jason Koop CTS Coaching Director, Author of “Training Essentials for Ultrarunning” Over the weekend, CTS Athletes Kelly Wolf and Dylan Bowman earned victories at the Tarawera Ultramarathon in New Zealand. They both ran smart, gutsy races and fended off great competitors to earn the top step on the podium. Their wins were both close, …
Haute Route San Francisco (April 20-22), Haute Route Asheville (May 18-20), and Mavic Haute Route Rockies (June 23-29) are all coming up soon and we wanted to provide you with some guidance and training advice on how to prepare for challenging multi-day events like these. We recently sat down with former ProTour rider, 2x Pro …
By Mara Abbott, 2016 Olympian, CTS Athlete, and CTS Contributing Editor At the 2016 Redlands Classic I went down hard, and came back up with a cracked collarbone. After 10 years of professional cycling it was my first broken bone. However, when I tried explaining my ensuing fear and uncertainty, people were duly polite, but it …
The Mavic Haute Route Rockies is likely to represent a significant increase in your total weekly training volume and workload. In many cases, the event may be on your bike for TWICE as many hours as you normally ride in a week. As you’re preparing for the upcoming challenge, it is important to recognize that …
Whether you are a triathlete, runner, cyclist, or another endurance athlete you need accurate physiological data to guide and monitor your training by. Lactate threshold and VO2 Max are two of the most commonly, and effectively, used performance markers used by many athletes and coaches. The point is to learn the highest intensity at which …
Chris Carmichael CEO/Head Coach of CTS People don’t make food choices based on nutrition. The nutrient-density and composition of a food plays a role, but people also choose foods based on cost, ethics, politics, purity, allergies and intolerances (real or perceived), and environmental concerns. Plant-based meat is one of the newest foods to throw …
Groove Continues to Provide Support Vehicles and VIP Experience for CTS Athletes (January 29, 2018 – Colorado Springs, CO) – Groove Automotive in Denver, Colorado has been the Official Support Vehicle of CTS since 2015 and will continue to support CTS Athletes at events and training camps in 2018. The vehicle partnership with Groove has …
By Syd Schulz, CTS Athlete and Pro Mountain Bike Racer It’s January, the trails are closed due to slop, the weather is gross and (depending on where you live) there isn’t even enough snow for decent skiing. Maybe you just got in to a big goal event, or your New Year’s resolution is to get …