Coach Rich discusses chainrings, cassettes, gear ratios, cranks and more!
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Archive for March, 2009
Squeezing the Lemon
On March - 19 - 2009
Take a look at your training schedule or the calendar. Now count the number of “get faster” or “get longer” bikes and runs between today and your race. It’s probably not as many as you thought! Every one one of those sessions is an opportunity to build towards your goals on race day. Or a missed opportunity…your choice.
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New Video: Intervals, To Race or Not to Race with Power
On March - 18 - 2009
New Podcast: Team Results, NoCal Clinic, UpComing Bike Fit Webinar and more!
On March - 18 - 2009
Endurance Nation coaches Rich Strauss and Patrick McCrann discuss the teams incredible race results last weekend, Rich’s clinic in NoCal this coming weekend, and preview their Bike Fit webinar coming at the end of the month.
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Is Your Perspective Holding You Back?
On March - 18 - 2009
In my years as an athlete, founder of a tri club, and internet based coach with a national reach, I’ve mixed and mingled with a very broad range of athletes. And I’ve seen how the performances of many of these athletes have been limited by their perspective. By their perspective and definitions of “fast,” far, hard, and what is possible.
In my experience, that perspective is largely a function of the people you surround yourself with. The peer group that you train with, seek advice from, etc. This peer group is especially powerful for the new athlete. If you grow up, as an athlete, in a world where 18mph is fast, 40 miles is far, that hill is too steep, you shouldn’t run too fast because you will spontaneously combust, the perspective that this world forces upon you creates a box of what is and is not possible. Your peer group and your/their perspective puts you in this box and slaps a big sticker on it: “You Can’t.”
These are my “Yes You Can” notes:
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