Blog: The Coaching Chronicles

Gravel cycling tips for women from Karen Pritchard

Meet Karen Pritchard. She’s a member of Source Endurance sponsored gravel team Panaracer/Stan’s NoTubes p/b Bicycle X-Change, with some fantastic results such as Unbound Gravel- 2015: 2nd place finish in age group and 7th overall female Land Run 100- 2015/2016- 1st in age group and 2nd overall female Karen loves gravel and was so kind…

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Rider Highlight: Casey Cohenmeyer

Casey recently completed her first Belgian Waffle Ride after volunteering last year. She’s been riding bikes for about a year and a half now. She not only finished the BWR, but finished 24th out of 40 female starters and 407 out of 548 overall starters for men and women with a time of 11:35:55. Way…

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Intervals to prep for your next gravel grinder

Gravel riding and gravel racing is a unique cycling venture. With long durations like road racing but equipment similar to cyclocross, training for gravel races is different from other styles of events. By applying the same principles that guide us through all aspects of coaching- specificity and overload- we can design new workouts specific to…

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Seven Things you Should Know Before Your First Gravel Cycling Race or Epic Gravel Ride

Gravel racing is booming in popularity…it’s not quite mountain biking and it’s not quite cyclocross or road riding. This might leave you with some questions on how best to prepare for your first big gravel grinder. And there are quite a few coming up like the Belgian Waffle Ride. While this list isn’t all-inclusive by…

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Sweeping the Podium at LandRun 100 and Rage Against the Chainring

For the past two weekends Bob Cummings and the Panaracer/Stan’s NoTubes p/b Bicycle X-Change team, also sponsored by Source Endurance have engineered a clean podium sweep first at the Land Run 100 followed by Rage Against the Chainring. First of all, full credit is due to the fitness of the team, the sound team tactics as…

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Often Discussed, Never Explained: Base Training, Part 2 of 3

Your Strongest Season Starts Here Part 1 established what base training is, and for those who have the time to ride them, base miles are highly effective for a few reasons. Low intensity, high duration training provides a low muscular stress alongside a high aerobic stress, making athletes fitter while maintaining relative freshness in the…

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Source Endurance Training Center March Newsletter

A ton of events and updates for you training center riders this week! Today is Rio Swap 2016! Rio Swap is always an amazing event where you can find almost any bike part you need or just walk around and see what people have had laying round and visit with friends. During Rio Swap the Training…

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Source Endurance Training Center of the Rockies brand ambassador Matt Britton

Announcing the latest brand ambassador to the Source Endurance Training Center Team, Matt Britton.    Matt, who is a MRI Technologist at Banner health in Fort Collins, is riding for team Wattie ink this year. With all that Matt has going on, the Training Center will be key for him to reach his goals in…

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New Clothing Order

    Castelli has come through once again!  New items are the 2016 collection of clothing and they are the best we’ve ever seen or worn. We have new WINDVESTS and LONG SLEEVE jerseys to accompany the SE lineup.  In addition, other premium Castelli in- line accessories are being offered.  Store closes Feb 20. Get…

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Often Discussed, Never Explained: Base Training, Part I

Get Coached, Get Faster It’s not necessarily that inaccurate conclusions are being drawn about base training, but more that some conclusions are misguided.  I’ve decided to write a bit about base training because it’s important to understand the correct reasoning behind those conclusions as well as what the alternatives to base training can do for…

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