Category Archives: Cycling

Harpeth Racing Training Camp 2010

By Nathan | April 28, 2010

The Harpeth Bicycles Racing Team went down to North Georgia over the weekend of April 17-18th to ride a few mountains. I haven’t written much of anything about it since we got back, which makes it more and more likely that I never will.
The short story is that the mountains were hard. We did the [...]

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Strength by the numbers

By Nathan | April 1, 2010

1, 2, 3, 4, 5… crap. Lost count. What’s the screen say? 6 minutes left. Crap. I’ll start counting again at the next minute. 56, 57, 58, ok, start counting pedal strokes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…. focus…. 9, 10, 11. crap. lost count again. How many minutes now?
We’ve been working on building strength [...]

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Tour de Tuscaloosa Cat 5 Road Race Report

By Nathan | March 28, 2010

This season is definitely going to be an immersion classroom in “The education of a racer” for me. I’m learning a lot even if I can’t apply it all yet. From these three races my pain points have all been the same – hills. More specifically my unwillingness to dig really deep early in these [...]

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