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...
Darren came to X3 in early 2018 with a few goals for his season. One was to win a race - an outright win, mind you, not just age group. This past weekend, he did just that. It goes without saying that we're all super...
This fourth OCup (Ontario road race series) event was Sarah's key event for the 2018 season. She's had a lot on her plate these past two months with buying a house, a demanding full-time job, and - of course - all the training. Still, that...
To run fast, you must train to run fast. I do enjoy a good trivial statement. I started this article to pontificate on all the reasons why running a once-weekly, structured workout on a track is so very useful to runners of all levels. I got...