Blog: The Coaching Chronicles

Athlete Key Workout: Brady Reed

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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Rider Highlight: Skyler Mackey takes the win at Sand Springs Palmer Criterium Category 1/2

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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Athlete Key Workout: Justin Williams' Recovery Ride

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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2017 Sweat Rate and Fluid Intake at Unbound Gravel

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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Athlete Highlight: Casey Cohenmeyer takes the BWR Hardwoman Award

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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6 Weeks to Fitness: Big Gains for All

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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Athlete Key Workout: Nate Taggatz

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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Rider Highlight: Trey Harrison conquers Masie's Ride for Pride Gravel Grinder

Name: Trey Harrison Event Category: Masie’s Ride for Pride in the beautiful Flint Hills of Kansas Course description: 104 mile gravel race in the Flint Hills w/approximately 8000ft. of climbing. How’d the race go down for you? With a good sized field with quite a few fast racers, the pace went out pretty hard. The…

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Athlete Key Workout: Pablo Cruz

Sometimes, you just have to do some hard riding. In this week’s workout highlight, we’ll take a look at a late build phase workout done by Pablo Cruz of Midwestern State University in preparation for the USA Cycling Collegiate National Championship. Prior to this workout, Pablo had already done some 200+ hours this year, in…

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Cyclocross: What you should be doing now to prepare

Howdy folks, Holy cow, it’s mid-May already. Can you believe it? September in 4 short months. It might just be time to start thinking about cyclocross again. Ok, maybe more than just thinking about it. How about planning for it? Planning? You mean people actually plan for a cyclocross season? Yes. Hell yes. I’m not…

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