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953 articles across 20 pagesHOW TO PLAN YOUR CYCLING SEASON: CHOOSING EVENTS AND BUILDING YOUR YEAR
Most amateurs train reactively — signing up for events on impulse and cramming fitness. This is how to plan a season like a coach would: A/B/C events, reverse-engineered timelines, and a structure that survives real life.
THE SELF-COACHING FRAMEWORK: A COMPLETE SYSTEM FOR CYCLISTS WHO TRAIN ALONE
You already know the mistakes self-coached cyclists make. This is the other side — the complete framework for doing it right. Annual planning, weekly structure, testing, autoregulation, and the honest conversation about when self-coaching should stop.
CYCLING STRENGTH TRAINING: WHAT ACTUALLY TRANSFERS TO THE BIKE (AND WHAT DOESN'T)
The gym is full of cyclists doing work that never reaches the pedals. Three sets of fifteen on the leg press. Calf raises. Lat pull-downs. Effort spent, adaptation earned, transfer to the bike close to zero. The science of what actually crosses from the weight room to the road is specific, measurable, and largely ignored.
TENDON HEALTH FOR CYCLISTS: WHY YOUR TENDONS ARE THE WEAK LINK AFTER 40
Your muscles adapt in weeks. Your tendons take months. After 40, that gap widens — and it is where most cycling injuries start.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR A CYCLING TRAINING CAMP: 4-WEEK PLAN
Use the camp's hardest route to build a four-week preparation plan that tests your legs, equipment, fuelling and travel routine without arriving tired.
THE CYCLING TRAINING PYRAMID: GETTING YOUR PRIORITIES RIGHT
Most cyclists obsess over interval protocols while sleeping six hours a night and riding three weeks out of every five. The training pyramid flips that instinct on its head — and the numbers behind each tier explain why.
RACING AND RIDING ABROAD: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO CYCLING TRAVEL, BIKE TRANSPORT, AND EVENT LOGISTICS
You have trained for months. The event is in another country. The gap between fitness and a good result is now logistics — getting your bike there in one piece, adjusting to the climate, and not sabotaging race week with bad travel habits.
CYCLING WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS: AN EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDE FOR RIDERS WITH ARTHRITIS, DIABETES, AND HEART CONDITIONS
Your diagnosis changed your medical records, not your right to train. This is the evidence-based guide to cycling with arthritis, type 2 diabetes, and managed cardiac conditions — what adapts, what doesn't, and how to keep progressing.
CYCLING WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS: EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDANCE FOR ARTHRITIS, DIABETES, AND HEART CONDITIONS
Many riders in the 35-55 bracket live with chronic conditions. These conditions do not have to stop you riding — but you need to be smart about how you do it. Evidence-based guidance to discuss with your medical team.
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DAILY TRAINING READINESS CHECK FOR CYCLISTS: WHAT A SCORE CAN—AND CANNOT—TELL YOU
A daily readiness check can organise the context around today's ride. It cannot measure recovery directly, diagnose overtraining or make the training decision on its own. Use repeated signals, your baseline, symptoms, the next priority session and the warm-up response together.
DRAFTING, ECHELONS, AND THROUGH-AND-OFF: THE GROUP RIDING SKILLS THAT SAVE YOU 30% OF YOUR ENERGY
Bert Blocken's wind tunnel research puts a hard number on drafting: 30-40% energy savings at close following distances. But sitting on a wheel is only the start. Through-and-off rotation, echelon positioning, and reading the rider ahead are the skills that separate riders who survive in a group from riders who drive one.
RED-S IN CYCLISTS: SIGNS, SCREENING AND RECOVERY
Problematic under-fuelling can affect bone, reproductive, metabolic, psychological and performance health. RED-S is real enough to take seriously and complex enough that one calorie calculation cannot diagnose it.
ETAPE CALEDONIA TRAINING GUIDE: 137KM THROUGH THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
137km of closed roads through Highland Perthshire — past lochs, over moorland, and up the flanks of Schiehallion. The terrain is not extreme but the Scottish weather is as much a factor as the gradients, and that combination is what makes Britain's original closed-road sportive a genuine test.
YOUR FIRST GRAN FONDO: WHAT NOBODY TELLS YOU
A gran fondo is not a race. It is also not a sportive. It sits somewhere in between, and the riders who enjoy it most are the ones who understood that before the start line.
FONDO GIRO D'ITALIA TRAINING GUIDE: RIDE THE ROADS OF THE CORSA ROSA
The Fondo Giro d'Italia puts you on the same roads the pros raced days earlier — full road closures, professional timing, and ten thousand riders chasing the ghost of the peloton through some of Italy's most brutal mountains. The route changes every year. Your preparation cannot.
FUELLING SELF-ASSESSMENT: WHY MOST CYCLISTS ARE UNDER-FUELLED AND HOW TO FIX IT
You train with power. You track TSS and CTL. You periodise your intervals. And then you eat a banana and half a gel for three hours of riding. The gap between how precisely most amateur cyclists manage their training and how casually they manage their fuelling is the single biggest performance leak in the sport. This guide walks through the science of in-ride and daily nutrition, explains the scoring behind the Fuelling Self-Assessment, and ranks the fixes that actually move the needle — starting with the ones you are almost certainly getting wrong.
GEAR RATIOS IN CYCLING: THE MATHEMATICS, THE FEEL, AND HOW TO USE THEM
Your chainring and cassette sizes are just components. The gear ratio is what your legs actually feel. Understanding ratios -- the maths, the overlap, and the selection -- is the cheapest performance edge in cycling.
GRANFONDO CAMPAGNOLO ROMA TRAINING GUIDE: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Granfondo Campagnolo Roma starts on the roads around Rome's historic centre, rides flat through the suburbs, then climbs into the volcanic hills of the Castelli Romani where Rocca di Papa separates the strong from the struggling. The October timing and 2,200m make it an ideal target for a first Italian gran fondo.
HOW TO TRAIN FOR THE GRANFONDO STELVIO SANTINI: A 16-WEEK GUIDE
The Granfondo Stelvio Santini finishes on the highest paved pass in the Eastern Alps — 2,758m, 48 hairpins, and roughly 25% less oxygen than the valley floor. This is how you prepare for it properly.
HOW TO FIND AND JOIN A CYCLING CLUB: THE COMPLETE GUIDE FOR NERVOUS NEWCOMERS
You've been riding solo for months, maybe years. You've seen the club riders sweep past in their matching kit, moving like one organism, and part of you wants in — but the other part imagines getting dropped after two miles and riding home alone in shame. That fear is almost universal. And almost always wrong.
HOW TO PACE YOUR FIRST CENTURY: AN HOUR-BY-HOUR GUIDE TO 100 MILES
The difference between finishing your first century with a grin and finishing it in a survival shuffle comes down to what you do in the first two hours. Not the last two.
HOW TO PEAK FOR YOUR A-RACE: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ARRIVING SHARP
Peaking is not tapering. The taper is one phase inside a larger process that starts six weeks before your A-race and ends when you clip in on the start line. Most amateurs get the taper roughly right and everything else wrong.
HOW TO READ A POWER FILE: WHAT YOUR DATA IS ACTUALLY TELLING YOU
Your power meter records everything. The .fit file sitting on your computer after every ride contains answers to questions most amateurs never think to ask — and the ability to read that data separates riders who train from riders who just ride.
THE INDOOR TRAINING SETUP THAT ACTUALLY WORKS: MAKING INDOOR CYCLING SUSTAINABLE
Most cyclists abandon indoor training within six weeks. Not because the equipment fails them, but because they never build a system around it. This is the operating manual for making the turbo sustainable — the routines, the programme design, and the mindset shift that turns forced suffering into your most productive training hours.
THE OVER-40 CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO STAYING INJURY-FREE ALL SEASON
After 40, injury prevention stops being something you think about after the damage is done. The riders who stay healthy all season aren't lucky — they've built a handful of small habits into their week that take less time than a coffee stop. This is the complete guide to what those habits are and why they work.
LA PINA CYCLING MARATHON TRAINING GUIDE: DOLOMITE PASSES THROUGH VAL DI FIEMME
135km through the Dolomites with 3,200m of climbing across Passo San Pellegrino, Passo Valles, and Passo Lavaze — sustained alpine climbing at altitude on roads that rarely flatten out. A quieter, less-balloted alternative to the Maratona dles Dolomites, and no less demanding on the legs.
HOW TO TRAIN FOR THE LIÈGE-BASTOGNE-LIÈGE CHALLENGE: A 16-WEEK GUIDE
273km. 4,000m of climbing. Repeated short, savage côtes through the Ardennes forests. The amateur version of cycling's oldest Monument is one of the longest sportives in Europe. This is how you prepare.
MAGNESIUM FOR CYCLISTS: FOOD, SUPPLEMENTS AND EVIDENCE
Magnesium is essential, but that does not make a supplement an automatic performance or recovery aid. Audit food first, understand the limits of testing, and use supplements only when the reason and dose make sense.
HOW TO TRAIN FOR MARMOTTE GRANFONDO PYRÉNÉES: A 16-WEEK GUIDE
The Pyrenean sister to La Marmotte Alpes. Same organisation, different mountains. 170km, 4,600m of climbing, and a summit finish on the Tourmalet. This is how you prepare.
HORMONES AND CYCLING AFTER 40: WHAT CHANGES AND WHAT TO TEST
Hormones matter, but “hormonal imbalance” is not a diagnosis and an annual athlete panel is not a universal answer. This guide shows how to separate ordinary ageing and training fatigue from symptoms that need clinical review.
MASTERS CYCLING RECOVERY AFTER 40: WHY IT'S DIFFERENT AND HOW TO GET IT RIGHT
After 40, the training is not the hard part — the recovery is. Hormonal shifts slow protein synthesis, sleep quality declines, and the 48-hour rule between hard sessions stops being optional. This is the recovery framework that keeps masters cyclists adapting instead of breaking down.
THE MID-SEASON RESET: HOW TO FIX STALE FORM WITHOUT LOSING FITNESS
Your form has gone flat. The numbers are there but the legs are not. Every ride feels like work and none of them feel like progress. You do not need more training — you need a reset. And the research says a short, deliberate mid-season break costs you far less fitness than you think.
HOW TO TRAIN FOR NOVE COLLI: A 12-WEEK GUIDE FOR ITALY'S GREATEST GRAN FONDO
Nove Colli is 200km, nine climbs, 3,900m of vertical, and late-May Italian heat that breaks riders who prepared for the elevation but forgot about the temperature. This is how to arrive at Cesenatico ready for all of it.
THE OFF-SEASON ROADMAP: WHAT TO DO FROM YOUR LAST RACE TO YOUR FIRST STRUCTURED BLOCK
The off-season is not a gap between seasons. It is the first phase of the next one. What you do in these 4-8 weeks — the break, the reset, the audit, the strength work, the unstructured riding — determines whether January starts from a platform or a hole.
HOW TO ANALYSE YOUR RACE OR SPORTIVE PERFORMANCE AFTERWARDS
Most amateurs finish a sportive, upload to Strava, glance at average power, and move on. That file contains months of training direction if you know where to look. This is the systematic post-ride analysis framework.
POST-RIDE ANALYSIS: HOW TO REVIEW YOUR CYCLING DATA AND ACTUALLY GET FASTER
The ride is over. The data is sitting on your Garmin, waiting to tell you something useful. Most riders glance at the summary, check their Strava segment times, and move on. That is a missed opportunity.
UNDERSTANDING YOUR POWER-DURATION CURVE: HOW TO FIND AND FIX YOUR LIMITERS
Most amateurs know their FTP. Very few understand their full power-duration curve — the shape of it, what it reveals about strengths and weaknesses, and how to use it to direct training. This is how to read it and act on it.
POWER TO SPEED IN CYCLING: THE CUBIC RELATIONSHIP, AERODYNAMICS, AND GETTING FASTER WITHOUT GETTING FITTER
The relationship between power and speed is not linear. It is cubic. Double your watts and you gain roughly 26 per cent in speed, not 100. Understanding why — and where the watts actually go — is the single most useful piece of physics any cyclist can learn.
PREDICTING YOUR RACE TIME — WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS
Strava's estimated time is a coin toss. A physics-based race predictor that models aero drag, rolling resistance, gradient, and your actual power data gets within 2-3 per cent of reality — if you feed it honest numbers.
PROTEIN FOR CYCLISTS: HOW MUCH, WHEN, AND WHY IT MATTERS
Endurance cyclists need 1.6–2.2g of protein per kilogram of bodyweight daily — far more than the 0.8g/kg general population guideline. This pillar guide covers the Morton et al. meta-analysis evidence, leucine thresholds, protein distribution across 4–5 meals, source rankings, masters cyclist adjustments, and a full training-day meal plan.
HOW TO TRAIN FOR QUEBRANTAHUESOS: A 16-WEEK PYRENEAN PREPARATION GUIDE
200km across the Spanish and French Pyrenees, 3,500m of climbing, and a finishing col that kicks at 7.7% when your legs are already cooked. The Quebrantahuesos earns its name. This is how you prepare for it.
RACE DAY CHECKLIST FOR CYCLISTS: THE COMPLETE 48-HOUR PREPARATION GUIDE
Most DNFs start the night before. Not on the road, not on the climb, but in the kitchen, the garage, or the alarm clock you forgot to set. This is the complete 48-hour preparation guide for race day — from bike checks to breakfast, kit to caffeine, warm-up to start line.
RACE DAY FUELLING STRATEGY: THE COMPLETE GUIDE FOR CYCLISTS
Eighty per cent of amateur cyclists who bonk in a race were already behind on fuel before they crossed the start line. This is the complete fuelling strategy — from 48 hours out to the final feed zone — built on Jeukendrup's research and tested across hundreds of riders.
RECOVERY READINESS SELF-ASSESSMENT: WHY MOST CYCLISTS ARE UNDER-RECOVERED AND DON'T KNOW IT
Your power meter tracks what you do on the bike. Nothing tracks what you do off it. The gap between training stress and recovery capacity is where most cyclists lose fitness gains they have already earned. This guide walks through the four pillars of recovery, explains the scoring behind the Recovery Readiness Screen, and ranks the interventions that actually move the needle — starting with the ones you are probably neglecting.
RIDING WITH YOUR PARTNER: HOW TO SHARE CYCLING WHEN FITNESS LEVELS DIFFER
You love riding. Your partner wants to ride with you. But one of you is fitter than the other, and every shared ride becomes a negotiation between going too easy and going too hard. This is the most common friction point in cycling relationships — and it is entirely fixable.
RUNNING AND CYCLING: THE CROSSOVER TRAINING GUIDE
Running and cycling share the same aerobic engine but load the body in completely different ways. This guide covers the fitness transfer between both sports — how to convert running performance to cycling performance, how to structure a week with both, and how to avoid the injury trap that catches most single-sport athletes when they cross over.
SOLO RIDING: SAFETY, PACING, AND GETTING THE MOST FROM TRAINING ALONE
Solo riding isn't a consolation prize for people who can't find a group. It's one of the most powerful training tools available — if you approach it with a plan, the right safety habits, and an understanding of what makes solo hours count.
SUPPLEMENTS FOR CYCLISTS: WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T, WHAT'S DANGEROUS
The supplement industry turns over $50 billion a year by selling cyclists promises that belong on a pharmacy shelf, not in a peer-reviewed journal. Roughly 90% of it is noise. This guide identifies the 10% signal — the compounds with actual evidence behind them, the doses that matter, and the products you can safely bin.
THE TIME-CRUNCHED CYCLIST'S TRAINING FRAMEWORK: HOW TO GET FASTER ON SIX HOURS A WEEK
Six hours a week. That is enough to get meaningfully faster — if you stop wasting three of those hours in the grey zone. Here is the framework that turns limited time into structured progress.
HOW TO TRAIN FOR THE TOUR OF FLANDERS SPORTIVE: A 12-WEEK GUIDE FOR WE RIDE FLANDERS
We Ride Flanders is not a climbing event. It is a cobbled war of attrition across 235km of Belgian roads in early April. This is how you prepare for it properly.