New Year's resolutions are a cruel joke. Societally, we all choose one time every year to play into one another's desire to be better, without ever sharing strategies for achieving those goals. We don't share healthy recipes and portion control tools, we just seek to lose weight. Further, we're encouraged to set these goals on … Continue reading New Years Resolutions, doing it right;
Author: Bryan Coward
Amateur cyclist and outdoor junky.
Developing Resolutions for Endurance Athletes;
This is the second is a series of posts on New Year's resolutions. The first post covered willpower, and how people have a tendency to overestimate their ability to change. To summarize that post, your future self has a limited amount of willpower to achieve your goals, and probably less than you expect. If you … Continue reading Developing Resolutions for Endurance Athletes;
Willpower for the New Year;
The holidays bring lots of wonderful things, time with loved ones, maybe a few days off or even some new equipment! But those benefits are counterbalanced with potholes on the road to a successful season; there's heavy meal after heavy meal, desserts lining every coffee table, and the weather turns sour and the days get … Continue reading Willpower for the New Year;
Tapering tutorial;
It's a scary thing to look at the calendar and realize that a race for which you've been preparing is just a week away. That final week of real training is typically not easy; you're peaking and putting down performances that are a little startling. And with that difficult training comes a focus on just … Continue reading Tapering tutorial;
Pick your pacing;
The hardest part of run training for me is running fast enough on my workouts and slow enough on my easy runs. It's easy to fall into a pattern of running hard every workout; it seems that running harder on easy runs should lead to even more progress than if you ran them easy. But … Continue reading Pick your pacing;
Homemade Peanut Butter;
The best pre-workout meal, in my humble opinion, is to not eat. I hate having anything in my stomach while running or riding. Austin tends to disagree though, and she's not alone. Most people like eating just a bit before training in the morning, and many people recommend toast with peanut butter. If you're looking … Continue reading Homemade Peanut Butter;
Half Marathon Training; Southern Fried 13.1
The half marathon is a great distance for the recreational runner. The race takes about 2 hours, and doing any sort of exercise for two full hours without a break is an achievement for most people. The race has the added benefit of being a distance which one can train remarkably well while working; training … Continue reading Half Marathon Training; Southern Fried 13.1
Dr. Strangesport; or how I learned to stop training and love rest days.
Endurance sports are incredibly rewarding yet enigmatic when you compare them to other sports. In fact, they are straight up strange. The same people win just about every race, why bother? In a soccer game, half the people walk away victorious. At a local 5k, there's one winner and hundreds of losers. Why not just … Continue reading Dr. Strangesport; or how I learned to stop training and love rest days.
Half Marathon Core Routine;
I am about three weeks into a training plan for a half marathon. Half marathon training requires a fair amount of training volume, and that training volume increase raises the risk of injury. Why is this? What can be done to help prevent injury? There are a few different ways to describe fitness: Endurance; the … Continue reading Half Marathon Core Routine;
Cycling Season Planner;
I put together a basic version of the cycling season planning tool that I use which can be copied and pasted into excel or google sheets for editing. It's available here on Google Drive. There's quite a bit going on in this training planner so I will be spending the next few days finishing up … Continue reading Cycling Season Planner;
