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strongislandtricoach: January 2009

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Friday, January 16, 2009. I have had most success in approaching endurance training by pushing fitness up from below until I can no longer push it up anymore, before pulling it up the last bit from there. There are far more pronouns than my English teacher Mrs. Gerek would ever permit, so I'll be more clear. Those familiar with endurance training will recognize the former situation as peaking. Those who have left their best legs out on the track or on the road training will recognize the latter. Often, t...

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strongislandtricoach: February 2009

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Is Your Addiction Slowing You Down? I know mine does at times. I am completely addicted to the sensations I still feel when I'm riding my bike.even when I am not getting the best output from my body.If it were only a matter of whether I wanted to ride because I love the feeling of speed and of being connected to this machine, flying across the ground propelled only by my legs, I would ride every day. Tuesday, February 3, 2009. We just arrived from our research trip in Tucson...

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strongislandtricoach: May 2009

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009. The Lion of Holtsville. I've been putting in a considerable amount of time riding several new routes with a friend that lives surprisingly close to be showing me some new roads. The loops all have names like Flandria, Amstel and Flanders and have slight variations depending on what the day's training calls for. We'll talk about our goals for the week each of us has and then construct the week's schedule accordingly. The numbers, 222W with norm 256W don't really tell the whole sto...

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strongislandtricoach: February 2014

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014. When I meet with an athlete to begin our athlete/coach relationship, I have many questions about athletic background, general health, available training time and recent training in some form of a log. I realize though that the most important question I ask is "a year from now, how will we know that we were successful? I bring this up in hopes of inspiring athletes to set goals, to set hard to achieve goals, but to set goals that are in their control. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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strongislandtricoach: January 2014

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Friday, January 31, 2014. How Your Marathon Should Feel. No matter how you try to sneak up on it. regardless of whether you put plenty of time 'in the bank' early on, you cannot trick or disobey your critical pace curve. As the expression goes, all you can do is all you can do. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How Your Marathon Should Feel. View my complete profile. My Favorite Places on the Web. Long island tri coach.

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strongislandtricoach: November 2009

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Bread, Butter and Horseshit. These dinosaurs should realize that they are the ones that need a 'paradigm shift'. Like dinosaurs, nature, through the 'crucible of competition' will select them out over time as they get injured doing heavy squats, powercranking and other horseshit, as well as burn out mentally due to a discouraging lack of fitness relative to those doing the 'bread and butter' endurance training necessary to see continual gains season over season.

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strongislandtricoach: October 2009

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Saturday, October 17, 2009. Top 10 Things I Will Be Prescribing To Cyclists This Winter. The Careful attention to diet to maintain/decrease non-lean body mass. The determination of FTP. The determination power at VO2max. The determination of AWC. The determination of neuromuscular power. The establishment of a power 'profile'. Skill work in the form of riding pacelines, cornering, echelon, sprinting, touching wheels, bumping. Small doses of structured volume at VO2max every 7-10 days, to maintain VO2max.

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strongislandtricoach: Racing Has Begun

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Monday, March 8, 2010. Fortunately, the weekend's weather was uncharacteristically magnificent, even as "mild" winters go. I raced both days. Saturday was my first CRCA club race. The Lion and I headed into Manhattan for the 6:30 AM race. Not knowing what to expect, we planned our departure to leave ourselves about 45 minutes after we were to arrive at 79th St. and 5th Ave. where we usually park. Well, I've wasted enough time. there's no time to get on my bike before going into the shop. I am an enduranc...

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strongislandtricoach: How Your Marathon Should Feel

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Friday, January 31, 2014. How Your Marathon Should Feel. No matter how you try to sneak up on it. regardless of whether you put plenty of time 'in the bank' early on, you cannot trick or disobey your critical pace curve. As the expression goes, all you can do is all you can do. Welcome back to the blogosphere. January 31, 2014 at 5:45 PM. Were both back. Game on. January 31, 2014 at 6:14 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). How Your Marathon Should Feel. View my complete profile. Long island tri coach.

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strongislandtricoach: Weather.com

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Thursday, December 31, 2009. I set the alarm to meet the Lion and T-Fed for a pre-snow ride this morning out of Holtsville. The forecast on weather.com was for a small probability of light snow flurries up until 9:00 am and then an increasing chance as the morning progressed. I figured that once we got going, by the time the flurries started, we'd be already on our way south, having ridden through the nut-punch hills of the Lion's Flanders route, making for an epic ride back home. One of 'em says. Perfec...