This bike, my very first bike, is older than I am. It’s been hanging from a hook, then sitting in a box in my dad’s shop for 35 years. __ I learned how to ride a bike on this bike. This bike has been jumped off of homemade wooden ramps, ridden on dirt paths through … Read more

  Stop overthinking. Get out of your head.   That is the exact reason why I purposefully refused to look at the plates Bobby Maximus was putting on the bar when I did a 1RM dead lift attempt the last time I was at Gym Jones – I did not want to know. I just … Read more

Structural Integrity. Supplemental Strength Work. Cross Training. Whatever you want to call it, it’s important. Specialization comes at a cost. Often that cost is whole body health. That’s why gym work is important for endurance athletes, especially cyclists who spend most of their training time pedaling a machine designed for efficient, non-weight bearing locomotion. __ … Read more

  Yesterday I had one of my newer clients, Howard, come into the gym and do a Functional Threshold Test (FTP for short). Howard doesn’t race. His main objective is one that a lot of people would like to accomplish but few actually do anything about – lose weight and be healthier. His athletic background … Read more

  Trainer Ride: 30 minutes/ 8.8 miles/ Avg power 87 watts/ Avg HR 100 bpm ___ Even though the numbers were really low, it felt really good to type that (and even better to actually do that). The last time I did exercise of any kind was on August 27 when I crashed at Seward … Read more

Last week in Richmond, Virginia, Chloe Dygert accomplished what only Nicole Cooke and Geneviève Jeanson* have done before: win both of the Junior Women’s Road Race and Time Trial titles in the same year. Chloe did it with authority too winning the time trial and the road race by over a minute. She soloed the … Read more

At 10:12 EST on Monday, September 21, 2015 Chloe Dygert will roll down the start ramp representing the United States in her very first World Championship. A World Championship held on home soil. Then, on Friday, June 25 she will take to the start line for the Junior Women’s World Championship Road Race. “Luck is … Read more

I am going to step away from posting about training and racing and instead talk about someone who was instrumental in who I am today. I woke yesterday morning with a text and voicemail from my friend Missy that I needed to call her immediately. When I reached her it was the worst news possible. … Read more

Sometimes you just need to go out and really mess yourself up. Because of some news I received yesterday – today was one of those days. And when you really want to mess yourself up, doing a hot lap of the island is a really good way to accomplish that. 200+ TSS for a ride … Read more