Category Archives: Fitness
Etape du Tour survival: Preparing your head
Nothing to do with your choice of mandatory helmet (Giro Prolight is my current choice) but with the art of mentally preparing yourself for the event. It’s as important as your physical fitness to get your positive, winning attitude right … Continue reading
Posted in 2010, Etape du Tour, Fitness
Tagged Col de Marie-Blanque, Col du Tourmalet, mental, phase, preparation, Team Sky
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A return to fitness starts with pain
After bemoaning that I was getting nowhere with getting back in shape I managed to get in about 5-7 hours riding in the last week or so. As liversedge pointed out on twitter: “They say to form a habit you … Continue reading
Posted in Fitness
Tagged "Trixter Xdream", fitness, London Dynamo, Richmond Park, training
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A good time to be ill
If ever there’s a good weekend to come down with a heavy case of the manflu, aka the common cold, this weekend past was it. Temperatures below freezing added to sleeting snow and rain should and would have had me … Continue reading
Posted in Cyclocross, Fitness, Professional, Winter kit
Tagged "Olbas Oil", "Steve Peters", "Super Prestige", belgium, cyclocross, Mark Cavendish, Nicole Cooke, winter essentials
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