Cycling Articles & Videos
Practicing Race Day Unknowns, Part 2: Surges on the Bike
This is the second in my 3-part series of Workout Wednesdays powered by Bioastin on how to structure your training to prepare for the host of unknowns in races. For today’s session, let’s talk about the [...]
Run-Bike-Run Bricks: Get Stronger & Reduce Injury
As many of you know, I like to mix up brick workouts and do much, much more than the traditional bike-run brick! If you’ve never tried a run-bike-run brick before I’d highly recommend including it in [...]
The Brick Workout You Aren’t Doing… But Should!
The majority of triathletes consider a brick workout to be a bike-run session. Rarely do they include a swim-bike brick in their training plan. If you haven’t tried a swim-bike brick before, you are missing [...]
Don’t Get Dropped on Your Next Ride
It’s discouraging to get dropped on the bike — either on a group ride or in a race. When riding in a pack there are often surges among cyclists who try to pick up the pace for [...]
Vintage Dave: 1994 Hawaii Ironman was a Mental Game
Throughout your training and racing, it’s important not to forget about the mental side of your game. Well planned race strategies, a strong belief in yourself and an unshakable confidence in your training will [...]
Break Your Plateau on the Bike with this VO2 Workout
Time and time again athletes tell me they are putting in substantial time on the bike every week but they haven’t seen any improvement. Usually when I ask them more questions about their training, I learn that [...]
Power in the Engine Room: Building Glute Strength
I refer to the gluteals as the body's "engine room". The glutes produce the power you need on the bike & run, and provide stability during the swim. If you're not sufficiently engaging your glutes, [...]
Get out of Your Cycling Rut with this Total Speed Session
Many times triathletes train at just one speed: slow and steady. It’s easy to neglect your top end if you’re just focusing on completing miles each week. However there is a huge benefit for triathletes [...]
Vintage Dave: Staying Mentally Strong
What the heck is going on here? This shot -- that captures me in the "pain cage" -- was taken somewhere on the IRONMAN course in February 1982. As IRONMAN historians recall there were two [...]