RAGBRAI Training: Power to the Pedals
You may take your cycling shoes and pedals for granted. After all, you just step and stand on them while riding. But these are vitally important components for cycling and deserve a mention here.
You may take your cycling shoes and pedals for granted. After all, you just step and stand on them while riding. But these are vitally important components for cycling and deserve a mention here.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
If you’ve read my earlier article on the amount of climbing on this year’s RAGBRAI, or if you've looked at the profile, you will realize there aren’t long, long climbs, but there is a lot of overall climbing. That climbing comes a quarter or a half mile at a time. The hills in Iowa are short but they can be frequent especially on the first couple of days. These can cause challenges for riders both going up and coming down.
Monday, April 25, 2011
I received a question from a ‘mature’ rider asking if I could give some advice addressing riding and training for the older cyclist. So this is the subject of this blog.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
OK RAGBRAI riders, here it is again this year, back by popular demand: The 15 week training plan for RAGBRAI. I have put this plan together to give you an idea of how to build up your riding in a very methodical and gradual manner to ensure you have the ability to ride RAGBRAI comfortably and to be able to finish it successfully.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Everyone who isn’t from Iowa tends to have a stereotype of Iowa – that it’s flat as a pancake. I know I did before I moved here. Compared to other hilly or mountainous states, Iowa’s topography is relatively flat, but we don’t ride bikes relatively! We ride on actual roads that go across, and up [...]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
What's the difficulty of this year's RAGBRAI route and how should you prepare? Now that the overnight towns for this year's RAGBRAI have been announced, we can begin to understand how easy or difficult the ride might be.
Monday, January 10, 2011
This is the first of many blogs I will be writing this season to help you prepare (dare I say 'train'?) for a successful and fun ride across Iowa this summer.
Monday, August 9, 2010
You have just finished RAGBRAI and hopefully you had a wonderful time. The weather wasn't too bad, typical of Iowa in July. One thing is for certain. If you rode all of RAGBRAI, or even half of it, you are probably in the best shape you'll be in all year, maybe even your whole life!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
It’s 91 degrees and humid here in Des Moines today. The corn is tasseling. So we know RAGBRAI can’t be far off. Here are some last minute tips for preparing your bike and your body for the ride.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
In Iowa we've had more than our share of rain again this year. Rivers are flooding and it seems like it rains every other day, if not every day. It sure has made getting out and riding difficult. It can create some possible hazards while riding in the rain so I'll address these.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
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