Archives

A full house of folks who are itching to race. Another full session to follow. What about you? Will you be ready?

There is big debate as to what came first the Bonfire or Cyclocross.  I have no idea which came first but I can tell you that the two go very well together.  Team Bicycle Heaven in our customary night bandit cross fashion decided to have a few extracurricular bandit races at a secret ROK training [...]

It’s 6:45 a.m. on a Saturday in December.  Where were you?  Where are we?  We were getting ready for the first of two Bicycle Heaven Computrainer sessions.  The BH training Dungeon coming alive: What’s on the menu today?  This is on the menu today: Just out of curiosity, why does the computrainer computer interface remind [...]

You have to take your time.  Go through the base phases and test again at FTP. So, last weekend we did some computrainer testing.  Now what?  Now it’s time to take that number and get to work, that’s what. Rob Kelley just posted a pretty good update to his training page.  Road race season is [...]

We like free stuff.  So do you.  It’s ok… you can admit it.  Free Cannondales are nice.  They’re also as real as the unicorn.  Free Computrainers are as real as it gets, though. Seeing that it’s the holidays, we thought we’d kick it off by giving stuff away.  Today the shop fired up the computrainers [...]

Training with Power – by Rob Kelley (www.ROKcoaching.com) Years ago wattage meters were for pros and/or wealthy geeks only.  Greg LeMond was an early pioneer with some un-earthly results.  Back in the day perceived rate of exertion (PRE) was the most accurate measure of an intense effort.  Heart rate takes too long to reveal itself [...]