Training with power used to be strictly for the professionals

Training with power used to be strictly for the professionals, but now with power meter and indoor trainers like the Wattbike becoming more affordable, amateur cyclists can now benefit from this elite training experience. Read on to find out how training with power can enhance your performance, plus some hints and tips to get you started. What is power? Power (Watts) measures your output of effort over a set time period. When riding your bike out on the road, power translates into your ability to move mass (ie. yourself and your bike) over distance (ie. your Saturday club route). So what? If power is your ability to move mass over distance, then an increase in power will result in a better ability to move mass over distance. Simply put, this means more power equals more speed.

Standing out from the Crowd

Sometimes…honestly…I feel quite insignificant. Like I don’t measure up to everyone around me. But measuring up isn’t really the goal is it? Exploring and giving the best of myself is the goal. Kinda like this little corn stalk. No, he’s not 9′ tall or counted among the great mass of corn stalks in the field, but he’s giving it all he’s got! And that makes him spectacular. These are the people that give cyclists a bad name. I’M A CYCLIST AND IT TICKED ME OFF! C’mon you noobs! Get with it and get smart! If you don’t care about your own safety, fine. You wanna be a hood ornament that’s your choice, but I prefer to live without the image of your sorry spandex flying across the hood of my car, and I definitely don’t want my girls learning that cycling is dangerous because you choose to be an idiot!

Grassroots time trialing: how to get started.

With summer finally arrived, the competitive season is in full swing. While seasoned riders will be riding a familiar path that may include week night track or crit races and weekend road racing, riders newer to the sport, perhaps discovering a taste for life on two wheels from sportives, may be wondering how to start. We continue our look at grassroots racing, begun last week with an examination of road racing, by turning our attention to time trialing, with the insights from top amateur, Tim Bayley, a man with over 20 years experience racing against the clock.