Category Archives: Training

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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Obvious, but interesting nonetheless

By Nathan | February 11, 2010

Last night’s class at Endeavor Performance illustrated a point that I knew but hadn’t thought about in a while; the relationship between pedaling cadence and heart rate. We warmed up as usual for about 15 minutes at an easy 60% of lactate threshold, then started into short tempo intervals (80% of lactate threshold) of five [...]

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