Cycling on New York Greenway Readers Question: How do you manage your training in spite of the jet lag coming home, and do you have any general advice for cycling and jet lag in general? I travel to New York about three times of the year (April, August, October). Usually this is in the middle [...]
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Food Before and During Cycling
There are numerous theories about optimal nutrition for cycle training. If you read all the conflicting reports and theories it can leave your head spinning. However, away from all the theories, I think the best advice is to follow basic common sense. Eating Pre Training. Before a training ride, I try to leave a gap [...]
Stretching Exercises for Cycling
Stretching will not make you go faster, however it will contribute to your flexibility. Greater flexibility will make a contribution to your overall ability as a cyclist. It is even more desirable to do stretching if you are a BMX or MTB rider, as greater flexibility helps cope with the falls and tumbles you are [...]
Speed on Flat and Hills
Readers Question: i have a query, you seem like the best person to answer it: as a relatively quick hillclimber, how can i convert my climbing speed to flatter events? i managed 24th at Dovers, but when it comes to tens, i’m an also-ran. does it have to be like this? you seem to have [...]
Stop Start Training
Not a recent photo!. As a reader mentioned, sometimes it’s just nice to see photos from the height of summer, when we can ride in short sleeves and shorts. This winter, my training has been a bit stop-start. I’ve rarely managed two consecutive days of training, mostly managing to get out three times a week. [...]
Off Season Training
To make a much repeated observation around these parts – it’s cold, and with many layers of snow. On Monday morning it reached – 17 degrees in Oxford. After spending a week off the bike, apart from one short perfunctory training session on the turbo, I felt slightly concerned about my lack of training. In [...]
Tough Cycle Rides
Sometimes, you are just really relieved to get back from a bike ride. You start counting off every junction and hilltop, reducing distance to home. With the temperature rarely rising above freezing in past few weeks, I went out on Saturday, when I saw temp rise to a heady 2 degrees. I had hot pads [...]
Dealing With Saddle Sore
It might look painful, but, there are various ways to avoid saddle sore. There is nothing worse than having to cycle with saddle sore. Many non cycling friends say that saddle sore is the biggest reason why they stopped cycling. It seems a real shame because they could probably make a big difference if they [...]
That Time Of the Year
It’s that time of the year where the desire of riding a clean bike becomes slightly outweighed by lack of desire to clean off the mud. I was riding through Islip last Tuesday and a fellow cyclist came behind and said ‘Hi Tejvan, that bike is too nice for winter…” He was right. I spent [...]
Training for 100KM Charity Ride
Readers Question: I’m a 16 year old teenager and i need to prepare for cycling from Manchester to Blackpool. Could you give me some suggestions to how I could train for this task; I am riding to Blackpool for charity in 2011 March – April. It looks like the ride is 100Km / 60 miles [...]
