Blog: The Coaching Chronicles
Here’s a quick time trial bike workout SE athlete Homayoon Farsi completed several times in his preparation for the Arizona State TT Championships. Homayoon can be found on podiums across the state, and is a staple in the Arizona master’s racing community. Everyone wants to be a better time trialist, but many riders leave out…
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The end of the month marks a pretty big race in the local Kansas City scene, with the Tour of Kansas City. A few of the Grip-N-Rip riders will be focusing on practicing the Time Trial that finishes up a steep hill. Scouting missions never hurt chances of success and this time trial is no…
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Name: Andrew Ennis Event & Category: UK Tour Series – Aberdeen – Amateur Support Race – CAT 3/4 Brief event/course description: City Centre Criterium, with cobbled sections How’d the race go down for you? Here’s the report, A half sweeping, half twisty cobbled circuit. 50 riders, 40mins+3laps. I am feeling nervous at the start,…
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Brady Reed’s 60-90 minutes, Easy Endurance Ride. With a string of criterium racing weekends coming up, Brady has systematically prepared himself for the repeated high intensity efforts they’ll demand over consecutive days. This preparation started months ago, and we don’t want to let the training load go to waste for later road racing, so Brady…
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Skyler Mackey takes the win at Sand Springs Palmer Criterium Category 1/2. While he focuses his season on cyclo-cross, racing criteriums like this are an integral part of his preparation for a successful cyclo-cross season. Brief event/course description: The course is very technical with lots of turns that give racers with solid bike handling skills…
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June 5, 2017: Justin Williams of Cylance Pro Cycling 60 minute, Recovery Ride. Recently, Justin has had what I would consider a brutal last few days. During that time, we put him in a state of systematic overreaching in order to push his fitness into a solid mid-season form. The benefits of this training block should…
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Tomorrow is THE DAY! The day where Graveleurs will inundate the sleepy cow town of Emporia Kansas to test their mettle against the flint rock and weather elements of central Kansas. We’ve heard many a strategy when it comes to rider support but one thing we’re going to address is how much fluids a rider…
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SE athlete Casey Cohenmeyer completed the 2017 Cervelo Belgian Waffle Ride despite suffering a separated shoulder just over a month before. This 132 mile (41 miles of dirt), 12k feet of climbing race is already a beast on it’s own. Casey showed a lot of grit and determination to stay focused on the prize and…
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Last week we concluded our first ever 6 Weeks to Fitness program at the Source Endurance Training Center of the Rockies. This program consisted of six consecutive weeks with 2 75-min Kickr workouts a week, 1 take-home workout, and assumed 2 rest days, and either long rides or races on the other days. In our…
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A couple weekends ago in Colorado was the Wheels of Thunder Criterium. We saw Nate Taggatz or Rio Grande Elite Cycling Team make the break with Gage Hecht and Dan Holloway, lap the field, and then get in further moves to try and get away from the competition. Nate Taggatz ended up 3rd in a classic…
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