Cycling as a sport doesn’t have a particularly environmentally friendly way of conducting its business, but the need to preserve our planet has reached the peloton. Milram will ride with biodegradable bottles in 2010, while Française des Jeux is using […]
I have a confession to make. I watch city hall meetings on public access. I find it all fascinating: the minutiae of planning and zoning regulations; the back and forth between various commissioners, city staff, and stakeholders; the soundtrack of […]
The city of Regensburg decided end of November to appeal a decision by the Bavarian Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Higher Administrative Court) that strengthened the rights of cyclists. The Higher Court had ruled in August in favor of Klaus Wörle, a member of […]
Christopher Thompson was supposed to receive his sentence on December 3 for purposefully hitting cyclists, but the sentencing has been postponed to after the holidays. The reason for the postponement was an apparent H1N1 outbreak in the North County Correctional […]
Anthony Orsani, the Italian junior time trial champion, died in a road accident today near Firenze. He was out on a training ride when he collided with a car traveling the other direction. The car was finishing a passing maneuver, […]
Breaking a collarbone is a common cycling injury. I’ve broken my left collarbone three times in three decades. The first time I broke it I was nine. I caught “mad air” off a jump while skiing at Squaw Valley and […]
It comes up almost every day in my massage practice. Clients report having taken a spill on their bike, hurting their elbow, shoulder, or knee… or perhaps they twisted their ankle running on the horse trail. Maybe they hyper-extended their […]
After the International Cycling Union (UCI) Management Committee meeting of 23rd September, new names have been added to the UCI ProTour Council (UPTC). Former Credit Agricole team manager Roger Legeay, Spaniard Ramon Mendiburu, Irish cycling legend Stephen Roche and recently […]
Earlier this week, Christopher Thompson’s jury found him guilty on all charges in a road rage incident that happened in July 2008. Thompson is accused of having passed two cyclists on a road in Brentwood, California, then slamming on his […]
Laurent Fignon, two-times Tour de France champion, announced earlier this year that he suffers from intestinal cancer. He continues to get rounds of chemotherapy, but is still working for France Télévision and Europe 1 as an advisor in the uptime […]
It’s about eight-miles from the top of the big hill on FM 306 to the finish line of the Tour de Gruene two-man time trial. The road is rough chip seal with a tiny shoulder, and totally exposed. The grade […]
Robert Gesink may only be 23 years of age but he already has a hill named after him. Today, the Robert Gesinkbult was revealed in Aalten, the Netherlands. Gesink, accompanied by girlfriend Daisy, uncovered the sign himself. The hill runs […]
Muscle overuse injury is common in cycling and triathlon. The nature of endurance sports requires repetition after repetition, nearly 17,000 cycles for a 3H workout. Additionally, weight training in the off-season, while effective at correcting imbalanced musculature, can also cause […]
Last Saturday I completed the last road race of the year. The Texas season starts in earnest the first weekend of February, takes a brief hiatus during the scorching summer (Austin had 69-days over 100-degrees from June through August), and […]
Craig Alexander won the Ironman Hawaii for the second year running in the men’s category, while Chrissie Wellington stormed to victory the third consecutive year in the women’s race. 3.8km of ocean swimming, 180km of bike racing and a marathon […]
A number of Great Britain’s Olympic cyclists will be attending the Cycle Show in London next week. In attendance will be Gold medallists Nicole Cooke, Jamie Staff and Ed Clancy as well as double BMX World Champion Shanaze Reade. A […]
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a […]
Lactate threshold causes a lot of confusion for athletes trying to determine accurate training zones. Threshold can be determined with several methods, but understanding the implications of each and how they relate to determining individual zones is vital. Two common […]
