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  • Faster #9 - Recovery Nutrition...

    You may have heard mention of limiting the amount of food that you take in while riding to 200-250 cal/hour (or in that range - it varies based on who you are and how hard you are riding). Because that's considerably less than the amount you are expending...
    Posted Jul 02 2008, 09:32 PM by ericgu with | with no comments
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  • Faster #8 - Cadence

    Armstrong had a fast cadence, and he won a millon Tours de France, so we should all ride at a high cadence, right? If you ask 10 cyclists about the importance of cadence, you'll get 3 different answers and 7 blank looks. Cadence is confusing, but...
    Posted May 12 2008, 08:49 PM by ericgu with | with 1 comment(s)
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  • Faster #7 - Heart Rate Monitors

    Lots of the cool guys have heart rate monitors. Should you get one? I'm going to assume that you are doing a set of structured workouts. So, if you're doing that, you need to set your training zones. You can do that by taking a percentage that...
    Posted Mar 11 2008, 09:08 PM by ericgu with | with 2 comment(s)
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  • Faster #6 - Cadence drills

    To travel at a given speed, you need to put out a given amount of power. You can either do that by pedalling slowly and putting a lot of pressure on the pedals, or by pedalling faster and putting less pressure on the pedals. Since the more pressure you...
    Posted Feb 29 2008, 09:07 PM by ericgu with | with no comments
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  • Faster #5 - Specificity

    Initially, you just start riding. Perhaps you're doing it for fitness, or to lose weight, or just for recreation. And then, at some point, you decide that you want to get a bit more serious, so you start riding a bit faster, riding a bit farther....
    Posted Feb 25 2008, 09:17 PM by ericgu with | with no comments
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  • Faster #4 - Ceramic bearings...

    Ceramic bearings - bearings with ceramic balls rather than steel balls - are a common choice by the top-end cyclists. So, how much do they really gain you? If I can, I try to figure out what sort of maximum gains you might see when from a specific increase...
    Posted Feb 09 2008, 09:34 PM by ericgu with | with no comments
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  • Faster #3 - Ride with the fast guys

    or girls... This is probably the most common suggestion that riders give when asked how to get faster. I know that I got it, and it led me to head out on a lunch ride with some co-workers. At the time, I'd been riding for about a season, and had only...
    Posted Jan 26 2008, 03:30 PM by ericgu with | with 2 comment(s)
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  • Faster #2 - Light Wheels

    This time, we'll talk about whether lighter wheels make you faster. This last summer, I upgrade from a set of Bontrager Race X Lite wheels (which run about 1900 grams) to a custom set from OddsAndEndos (which run around 1500 grams). That's about...
    Posted Jan 22 2008, 08:01 PM by ericgu with | with 2 comment(s)
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  • Faster #1 - Aero bars

    I've wanted to write more, but I've kept getting involved in big articles, and running out of steam partway through them. Instead of that, I'm going to write a series of short articles about whether something will make you faster or not. First...
    Posted Jan 14 2008, 06:41 PM by ericgu with | with 1 comment(s)
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  • Getting Faster - Training philosophy

    When people first start riding, they rarely have any training philosophy other than "just go out and ride". And initially, that's enough - the mere act of riding at all puts a fair amount of training stress on your system, and you therefore...
    Posted Oct 27 2007, 05:17 PM by ericgu with | with no comments
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  • Getting faster

    Post 1 of several It's a pretty common question... "I've been riding for a while now, and I'm the slowest in my group. How do I get faster?" There's no simple answer to this question, because getting faster isn't one thing...
    Posted Sep 20 2007, 08:19 PM by ericgu with | with no comments
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