by Andrew Jamieson | Mar 23, 2023 | Cycle Racing, Cycle Training, Power in Races and Training, Uncategorized
So you may have noticed just about every rider in the pro peloton uses a power meter. in the Lemond era, thirty plus years ago there may have been one or two pros racing with them and a few more pros using just in training. The Armstrong era saw many more using them...
by Andrew Jamieson | Mar 7, 2023 | Cycle Racing, Power in Races and Training, Tour de France
A Comparison of Power Files of the World Champ On Two Very Different Days Thanks to Strava and Michal Kwiatkowski we can take a peak at the power profiles of one rider from two similar days with two different strategies during the 2015 Tour de France. The two stages...
by Andrew Jamieson | Mar 7, 2023 | Cycle Racing, Cycling Sports Science, Power in Races and Training
Aerobic vs Anaerobic Climbing power is a combination of Anaerobic Work Capacity (AEC) and the upper limits of sustained aerobic power such as Onset of Blood Lactate Accumulation (OBLA), Lactate Threshold (LT) or Functional Threshold Power (FTP). Basically being able...
by Andrew Jamieson | Feb 14, 2023 | Cycling Nutrition
The ability to repeatedly deliver short, hard (anaerobic) efforts in a race is bread and butter for any competitive cyclist. So if someone told you that you could increase how many of these efforts you can do, by simply taking creatine, you’d jump at the chance...
by Andrew Jamieson | Jan 5, 2023 | Cycle Racing, Power in Races and Training, Tactics, TT
Pacing a Time Trial (TT) can be a difficult task and there are many questions to ask to enable us to get it right. How fast do I go at the start? Should I start slow or fast? Do I save some for the final? How do I pace over hills or with the wind? In this post we will...
