I’m at capacity for coached multisport athletes for 2019. It feels good to say that. That’s due in large part to the fact that I scaled that capacity from north of 30 in 2018 to just 20 this year. This was my double-down on quality...
I’m registered to race a 10k in four days, and I have a chest cold. I could be a case study for an immunologist. I’ve been too sick to race my last three races – Toronto Triathlon Festival in July, Chase the Coyote in September, and...
The race choice decision paralysis is real! The Ironman website lists 41 full distance and 158 70.3 events. The World’s Marathons website lists 4265 marathons. How are you - the savvy and informed runner or triathlete – to plan your season? If you’re going to put in...
I fought the test and the test won. It always does. It’s supposed to. I had the opportunity to perform a full battery of on-bike performance testing at Toronto’s The Cycling Gym this morning. I fasted, I drank my americano, I fed the kids and took...
I almost hit a cyclist last week. I was driving. It was dark. It was raining. He didn’t have any lights. To be fair, it was never close. I came up behind him and had to pull a little over the center line to give him enough...
I’ve been writing this thing in my head for weeks. That quote…it crystallized the way I want to feel about the first half of this year. And the way I’m coming around to feeling about it. Hearing it on one of my go-to sport podcasts...
I won’t make you hold your breath: it isn’t. FTP is alive and well and still – in my opinion – a very worthwhile performance metric for cyclists of all stripes. Mostly what has changed is the addition of novel protocols for testing and fitness assessment...
There’s a lot happening in the world of wheels. Disk breaks are disrupting the status quo, cheap, open-mold models from Asian manufactures are ever easier to access, and brands like Zipp and US start up Princeton CarbonWorks are experimenting with non-traditional inner circumference profiles. All...
Is aero everything? The new Specialized Shiv is making its debut at Kona this weekend. To say that the design is polarizing is an understatement. I remember when Cervelo revealed its P5X and Diamondback came out with Andean. Those bikes had their aesthetic critics. The new Shiv...
X3 has a new toy - I mean, high-precision instrument - the Notio Konect aerodynamic sensor. This device mounts to the bars of your bike and collects atmospheric (air pressure, wind speed / direction, humidity) and kinematic data (vertical oscillation and long-axis pitch) as you...