In the final two weeks before an event there is little extra training you can do to improve your fitness, instead the focus is on being as fresh and prepared for race day as you can be.If you have been…
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Are you ready to shift up a gear to take on a longer, harder challenge? Here’s five questions you need to ask yourself first: What is your goal?If you’ve already hit your early season…
Whether it’s an impromptu sprint during the local club ride or a serious attack during a criterium race, the breakaway is a key tactic used by amateur and elite cyclists alike. If you are looking…
If you have completed a few sportives already this year, you might be thinking about how to step up your game and challenge yourself even further. That’s where multi day rides come in. Multi-day…
Time trials are ridden at a hard, but sustainable pace. To improve your physical performance, you need to increase the power you can sustain. A well-paced time trial is a skill that can be learnt but it…
Sprint training benefits nearly every type of rider. Even if your goal is a hundred mile sportive and you are very unlikely to ever find yourself sprinting for a finish line there are still clear reasons…
Functional Threshold Power, or FTP, is a serious stat bandied about by many cyclists. If you’ve heard of FTP but aren’t sure why it is important or how to measure it, follow our simple guide…
With British summertime on the horizon, you may be thinking about the best way to prepare for your summer sportive or beating your rival at the weekly club time trial. Whatever your intention, we’re…
Doing a century ride is very much a milestone distance, whether it is your first ‘100’ of the year or your first ever it can be daunting, but with the right mental and physical preparation…
In January, many cyclists make the New Year's resolution to lose a few pounds and get to the perfect race weight by Spring. But, come February, many of them have fallen off the wagon. If you’re…
What is endurance? In the simplest possible terms, it is your ability to ‘last the distance’ in your chosen event. Track pursuit riders need endurance for their sub-5-minute race, as much as…
Sometimes to achieve the fitness progression you are looking for you will need to stop and pause, or even go backwards in your training, before you can accelerate ahead again. When we start training…
Cyclo-cross is an excellent way of maintaining your summer fitness through to next spring. During the winter many people, understandably, back off from doing hard intervals but taking part in regular cyclo-cross…