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I just got passed by a guy wearing shorts and a t-shirt riding a steel bike with sandals. Doh. I’m climbing Torrey Pines, one of my favorite hills in all of San Diego. Looking at my Garmin, I see I’m generating 272 watts – time to slow down again. I push my smallest [...]
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How much do you have to give? I’ve often wondered exactly where my personal boundaries are, now I know. Here’s how you can find out too:
Author’s note: I’m no doctor or sports trainer, but I have a distinct feeling it’s possible to kill yourself doing this so please be careful.
Step 1 – Choose a [...]
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Arlyn is not exactly sure when he quit the Julian Death March, only that he did.
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I have been working with Coach Colin from CTS for a month now and I’m starting to understand why this was such a great idea.
How it works
Working with Coach Colin is super easy. He publishes my workout schedule for the next 2-3 weeks online. My job is to perform each workout to spec and [...]
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The Summit Daily News is reporting that Lance Armstrong has officially entered this year’s Leadville 100. Last year, he finished 2 minutes behind Dave Wiens, 6-time winner and course record holder. Chris Carmichael is registered and there is also talk that Floyd Landis will make his return to Leadville this year too.
Lance racing Leadville. Summit [...]
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You see, I signed up for this crazy 100-mile mountain bike race held in Colorado called the “Leadville 100”. Well, this insane race actually starts at 10,200 feet above the ocean and goes uphill from there. I can smell the ocean from my house.
No, I don’t really live at 123 Main Street.
Both Lance Armstrong and [...]
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Yesterday was my final group ride before Boulevard, my first USCF road race. The plan was a coastal pootle to Oceanside Harbor and eleven mighty Descenders showed up for the ride.
The Mighty Descenders at Oceanside Harbor.
I was under strict orders from Alpha not to push too hard – with the race less than a [...]
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Iwent back to the Boulevard Race course yesterday with Mark, Voris and Rick. The idea was to pootle the first lap as a preview and then race the second and third. We’re just two weeks away from the actual race and we all wanted to leave everything on the road.
I got more than [...]
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“You gotta be kidding me! That’s a dirt road.” I said, following Mark off the pavement, less than a half mile from the US-Mexico border.
We were supposed to be on our second lap of the Boulevard Race course. I had the hammer down, trying to see how fast I could go and was off [...]
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After the thrashing my legs took on Saturday, I planned to do a sort of threshold workout on Monday by riding the Penasquitos Canyon MTB trail as fast as I could. Out and back, it’s a total of 30 miles with really only one significant grade.
The trail near I-15 is like flying down a [...]
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