RAGBRAI Training: It’s Time to Get Those Wheels Turning for 2021
Greetings RAGBRAI’ers! Welcome back for another year of training blogs. Hopefully this year will go better for all of us. This year’s route will cover 426 miles. It has a total of ...
RAGBRAI TRAINING: your complete training guide for this year’s RAGBRAI
by Coach David Ertl While it may still feel like winter for those of you in the Midwest, it is time to get serious about developing a plan to get ...
RAGBRAI Training: It is not too early to start training for RAGBRAI
Saturday night the general route of the 2020 edition of RAGBRAI was announced. It looks like a fun course with a variety of harder and easier days. It is a ...
RAGBRAI Training: Extend Your RAGBRAI Fitness
by Coach David Ertl So RAGBRAI is over for this year. Hopefully you are basking in the thrill of completing this ride and feel good about your efforts. And hopefully you ...
Worried About Going the Distance?
A RAGBRAI rider just mentioned to me that he felt a bit daunted by the distance needed to complete each RAGBRAI stage. He hasn’t ridden as far in training as ...
RAGBRAI Training: Baby It’s Hot Outside!
Just a few short weeks ago we were complaining how cold it was and asking if summer would ever come. Well, here we are in July in Iowa and it ...
RAGBRAI Training: How to Recover Day to Day on RAGBRAI
The other day I received a question from a RAGBRAI rider wanting to know how to better recover after back to back long rides on RAGBRAI.
RAGBRAI Training: Tips for a Comfortable RAGBRAI
In previous blogs I’ve talked about training for RAGBRAI so that you can complete the ride and feel good and feel good about yourself. Because RAGBRAI is not a race, ...
RAGBRAI Training: Quantity and Quality of Cycling Training: Go Farther and Get Faster
Coach Ertl is back with another training blog. This blog will be focused on things you can do in training to get faster at cycling.
RAGBRAI Training: Time to Hit the Road
I have been slow getting started writing these training blogs this year and I have one good excuse. I haven’t been riding outside a whole lot yet due to the ...
