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Cliff on March 5, 2010 |
All of us have come to that point in a race where we turn to the aid stations for fluids. I’d say 99% of the time it’s Gatorade. You do a silent prayer that the person who mixed it followed the directions. If not you either get a syrup that makes your head spin or [...]
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Jen on February 4, 2010 |
You might remember that one of my chosen blogs is Steve Stenzel’s “Steve in a Speedo?!“? Well he’s been doing a series called “Does it Work?” reviewing tools that triathletes use on a day-to-day basis. Yesterday’s entry was Steve’s review of four online training logs … Beginner Triathlete, Buckeye Outdoors, Daily Mile, and Training Peaks. [...]
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Cliff on January 17, 2010 |
I found this book while doing Christmas shopping for my Mom. In our family it seems like a lot of the literature that we pass around has been about running. Well I wanted to change that. So I started searching for a swim novel. Enter the book “Off the deep end” by W. Hodding Carter.
The [...]
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Jen on January 11, 2010 |
We all have our favourite “go to” sites when we’re in need of information – bike setup figures, swim techniques, new interval workouts – and they fill a very important role in the 21st Century athlete’s Big Bag o’Tricks, but what about blogs?
For me, there is a pretty hard set of criteria ANY reading material [...]
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Cliff on January 5, 2010 |
Dog in a hat: An American Bike Racer’s Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium
Written by: Joe Parkin
This book is just like the title states, a true story of one mans insight into the world of cycling set in the 1980s. Joe Parkin gives no BS into what it was like riding [...]
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