The extreme importance of the well crafted 2×20 minute Playlist
2×20 minutes is my staple workout. It’s a threshold test, a benchmark, and a default interval set when riding inside. I do it all the time, but don’t blame my level of mediocrity on 2×20, I stunk worse before I started doing this workout. If you start doing this type of drill full tilt all...
La Ruta Stage 4
STAGE 4 Ostensibly the easiest of La Ruta, it is still 75 miles long with 5,000 feet of climbing. Picture riding from Richmond to Charlottesville on a MTB starting out with 30% more climbing than Wintergreen and all of it much steeper. My hind quarters were still barking and very concerned about the 20k of...
La Ruta Stage 3
Stage 3 started with 5 minutes of promenade through a town and then climbed to 11000 feet to Vulcan Irazu (http://www.inmagine.com/searchterms/vulcan.html) which was spewing smoke. It took us 5 whole hours to do the 44k up to it. If you are asking yourself how we could average less than 5 miles hour for 5 hours,...
La Ruta Stage 2
Stage 2 is allegedly easier than stage one, easier in that it takes an hour less, is only 62k, and the time cut is not too tough. One recurring theme in the race as well as Costa Rica in general is the lack of good information on distances and times. I honestly think the organizers...
La Ruta Day One
La Ruta On a whim and with zero deliberation, an old college buddy and I signed up for La Ruta de los Conquistadores. I am a terrible mountain biker, and Scott was a good road rider, half his life ago in 1990. Shortly thereafter he went into the Peace Corps already suffering from the Epstein...
CBC athlete Marty Stiegmann won the World Duathlon title in Spain last weekend.
Carytown Bikes multi-sport team member, Marty Stiegmann clearly knows how to peak for a race as well as anybody. Once again he timed his training perfectly again this year and won the Duathlon World Championships in Spain last week! Marty won using a strong performance in the bike leg(and his HED Stinger 6′s) and held...
CARBON WATER BOTTLE CAGES:
Just don’t do it. If you already have them, no need to run out and replace, they will break soon enough. Then get alloy. If you want to look like you have carbon, get plastic. CBC will not even participate in the illicit commerce, the peculiar institution, of carbon bottle cages. You got to take...
Sunglasses
TIFOSI GLASSES Tifosi glasses cost about 30% as much as Oakleys and are about 95% as good. They are way better than other brands at their price point like Serfas. Knowing that most people either lose or break their shades every so often, it makes sense to save a few dollars in this area. Spend...
Clarenden
Fellow CBC owner Tim Mullins sprints to 3rd place in the Master’s Clarenden Cup this past Saturday!
AARP
CBC athlete Marty Steigmann won the XTERRA yesterday. That Geritol sponsorship might come through now. Incredible.
Europcar
Europcar is by far my favorite cycling team as of today. Why?? 1. Their results are so bad they must be clean. 2. They wear black shorts which is classy and old school. 3. I bet 50% of the incoming freshman at Maggie Walker could design a better website than their’s, http://en.teameuropcar.com/ 4. They always...
