Travel Light – Leave Your Excuses At Home

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 …

Cycling Safety Tips for Riding Alone

By Mara Abbott, Olympian and CTS Contributing Editor My junior year of college, I spent a semester enrolled at a university in Mérida, Mexico.  In part, I considered it an experiment in what would happen if I went out in the Real World where sports (forever and always swimming and at the time only recently, …

CTS Training Talks: How To Plan Your Cycling Season

In this episode of CTS Training Talks we cover: Developing season goals Identifying limiting factors like available training time Structuring a training plan around priority events CTS Senior Coach Clayton Feldman talks with Gayle Connell from the Naked Women’s Racing Team about identifying goals and building a plan that will lead to a successful season. …

How to Optimize Recovery for Multi-Day Events Like the Haute Route

Haute Route San Francisco (April 20-22), Haute Route Asheville (May 18-20), and especially the seven-day Mavic Haute Route Rockies (June 23-29) are all demanding multi-day events that require special attention to recovery. No matter how fit you are coming into one of these events, it’s critical you focus energy on recovery between stages. Here are …