Today we wanted to pass on our congratulations to Toni Minichiello who picked up the Sports Coach of the Year award from SportsCoachUK. If you don't recognise the name, Toni is the coach behind Olympic Gold Medallist, Jessica Ennis. We first met up with Toni earlier this year when he started to use a Wattbike as part of the preparation for his athletes for London 2012. His enthusiasm… Read full post
This weekend has been something slightly out of the ordinary for me. We travelled to South Africa earlier in the week to support our new distributor here at the Momentum 94.7 Expo, and since that finished the day before the event we brought our bikes to ride. Word apparently got out and the next thing we knew we had been invited to ride with Joel Stransky (yes the Joel Stransky who kicked the winning… Read full post
This weekend I took a trip up to Glasgow to watch the UCI Track World Cup at the brand new Sir Chris Hoy velodrome. A fantastic facility with awesome views from around the track. On Friday I was lucky enough to be track centre and was up close to the riders both on track and during their warm-up/down (we even managed to spy on the Netherlands track team who had brought over 2 Wattbikes to use… Read full post
We're featured in the latest issue of Triathlon Plus (December 2012) in a great article on 'Marginal Gains', which talks about perfecting pedal technique using a Wattbike. Well worth picking up a copy to read all about getting the most out of every pedal stroke. We've picked out a few links below to help you learn more now... Perfect Pedalling: Learn how Wattbike… Read full post
We arrived in Johannesburg yesterday morning to help support our new Wattbike distributor in South Africa, Penta Systems, with promoting the Wattbike at the Momentum 94.7 expo. After a quick breakfast we headed over to the set up and soon had everything ready to go. The Expo runs from today (Thursday) to Saturday with the Momentum 94.7 taking place on Sunday. The stand and the whole trade show soon… Read full post
A few weeks ago we helped out a fantastic charity, Breast Cancer Care, with their 48 hour Tour de Law event. Run across six leading law firms in London, the aim was for teams to race each other form London to Paris on Wattbikes - some of the teams took the challenge so seriously that they almost completed the distance in a single day! Congratulations to the six challengers - Ashurst, Baker &… Read full post
Courtesy of our friends at British Cycling, we have a pair of tickets up for grabs for this weekend's UCI Track World Cup in Glasgow, Scotland. The pair of tickets are reserved seating for the evening session on Friday 16th November, doors open at 18:15 with racing starting at 19:15. You'll get to see the world's best track cyclists in action following an enthralling Olympics… Read full post
As winter training begins in earnest the guys at Road.cc have put together a great guide to ten indoor trainers, and of course, Wattbike is featured. It's well worth a read to understand how Wattbike stacks up against the opposition and while you're at it, check out our blog on why training with power and heart rate is so effective. Check out Road.cc guide to ten indoor trainers… Read full post
We caught up with rowing Olympic Gold Medallist Sophie Hosking recently to find out how she would be using her Wattbike to help her train over the winter. Sophie took gold alongside Kat Copeland in the lightweight double sculls event at London 2012. We often hear about how heavy a rower's training schedule can be and Sophie confirmed that she uses the Wattbike to provide some variety: "Training… Read full post
It's the first day of the month and for many you'll be getting into the swing of your winter training right now. It'll probably involve a lot of low-level work in Zone 2 as you look ahead towards your 2013 targets. We all need a bit of motivation though so with that in mind we want you to have crack at setting a time for 10km on your Wattbike. To get going we advise you complete… Read full post
Over the past few weeks we've received a number of enquiries from the Wattbike community on how to export your Wattbike training data to TrainingPeaks.com and WKO+. Transferring your Wattbike session data to your TrainingPeaks.com account is easy and takes just a few clicks. If you wish to transfer your data to WKO+ you'll first need to export to your TrainingPeaks.com Coach Edition or Premium… Read full post
Here's the final end of season report from Claire Shea-Simonds. Claire has already started looking towards 2013 while reflecting on what was undoutbedly a great 2012. Training on the Wattbike has been a fundamental part of Claire's year and her success and she'll continue to put the high quality training hours in during the winter of 2012. We'll let Claire fill you in on… Read full post
It seemed like a good day to write about targets today. The clocks have just turned back an hour in the UK, daylight is in shorter supply and the weather is just, well, getting pretty damn cold and wet. So, time to put some thoughts towards 2013 and what we all really want to achieve. I asked around the office here at Wattbike HQ and the answers came in as follows: ride a local 10TT in… Read full post
Clocks are changing and we kiss training in daylight goodbye for the winter - so, here's an hours worth of tunes to get you through your Wattbike sessions. If you want to nominate tracks to the next list just tweet us @wattbike using #TrainingTracks and make sure they're radio-friendly Read full post
Some fantastic news came in over the weekend from the other side of the world. Wattbike Ambassador Non Stanford was crowned 2012 ITU Under-23 World Champion in Auckland on Saturday in what were really tough conditions for the competitors. A fast swim left Non and many of the main contenders having to chase back on during the bike leg and as they entered T2 Non and Sarissa De Vries from the… Read full post