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The Midlife Cyclist: The Road Map for the +40 Rider Who Wants to Train Hard, Ride Fast and Stay Healthy

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This is where power meters and heart rate monitors can help — if we make them truly our servants and not our masters. There is a short section on nutrition, suggestion alcohol may not actually be that good for us, in spite of the popular press. My passion for cycling and competition pervades my every thought and is a prism through which I view the world. And the advice broadly scans across indoor and outdoor cycling - but loading will likely differ between the two disciplines. Cavell believes the midlife cyclist will benefit from training by feel rather than a rigid structure.

Therefore, threshold and above is incorporated in to my riding all year round and I end up with a pyramidal training load. One Saturday, almost a quarter of a century ago, I raced at the Eastway criterium circuit in East London. It combines, speed, fitness, adventure and adrenaline; but it’s also uniquely functional and practical. It could be hill repeats (not imaginative but can be effective) or Dr Baker’s suggestion: “There’s gold in 8-10-minute efforts in the 105-110 per cent of FTP range.Ergo, if you’re less tired, you tend to miss fewer training days, which has to be good because fundamentally endurance equals volume. It's causing a bit of a dilemma because I WANT to train properly for whatever the CX season throws at us, but training effectively just seems a bit joyless, sitting spinning gently up climbs or gently trundling along gravel sections when every instinct is to get on top of a big gear and smash it, etc. Uniquely, Eastway’s topographical variance and tight corners had the capacity to reward every facet of a rider’s arsenal – technical skill, explosive power, endurance and mental fortitude.

Riding indoors will almost certainly not positively contribute to maintaining your fluid intelligence. Hip surgeons and physios love cycling and always prescribe it because it's not traumatic on your body if your bike is set up properly.The Midlife Cyclist offers a gold standard road-map for the mature cyclist who aims to train, perform and even race at the highest possible level.

He is not impressed with our pursuit of high cadences, or even smooth pedalling, noting that the people who stomp on the pedals tend to be the ones winning the races. Getting some depth of understanding about what might be going on in my chest helped me feel more at ease.We’ve also taught bike fitting all around the world to a new generation of student technicians, who are keen to help their own clients function better on their bikes. As I remember, the only other ‘London’ rider in the break was Garry Baker (but I don’t trust my memory in this instance for reasons that will become clear). If you want to be a great endurance athlete, most of your training should be at a level where you can have a fairly normal conversation with the person next to you, or sing a whole verse of a song without stopping and gasping for breath. The lecture slots filled up as soon as they were launched online and then we let people in so they could listen and ask questions. But arguably more important is a deep knowledge of their personal injury history, rehab and plausible motor-patterning compensations.

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