Cycling, Featured

10 Mental Strategies for Staying Positive During a Hard Ride

20 Comments 11 June 2013

In honor of the upcoming Rapha Women’s 100 event, I wrote a blog post with some thoughts about conquering doubts and mountains which will be published there soon. A few weeks ago, Julie Krasniak provided a very useful guide to preparing for a big ride like this. Her post covered things like hitting the road with [...]

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8-Week Challenge, Cycling

Serendipity much? Motivation in the form of five cols.

7 Comments 21 May 2013

Strange how things work. I sat in front of my computer for two hours yesterday doing other things, wondering if I should post that challenge. Then I did. And then all sorts of rad stuff started happening. First, many of you got excited. Which made me very excited. Which made me happy and motivated. Some [...]

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Cycling, Photos

PhotoGlimmer: Wrong Turn

4 Comments 16 May 2013

Traci took a wrong turn. I had stopped to wait for the rest of the group. I was standing at the crossroads when she went by. I knew she was going the wrong way, but instead of telling her, I snapped this photo. She was too happy and it was too beautiful and I was [...]

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Cycling

Half the Road: A Documentary about The Passion, Pitfalls & Power of Women’s Professional Cycling

No Comments 16 May 2013

I can’t tell you how excited I am about this project. I found Kathryn Bertine’s writing about her ultimately unsuccessful campaign to make the 2012 Olympic team both poignant and riveting – a true glimpse into what drives us as athletes. This documentary is important on many levels and as the conversation about equality – in cycling [...]

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Cycling, Featured, Travel

Photoglimmer: Dudda, Allegria and the Best Thing Ever

1 Comment 07 May 2013

It all comes together in Dudda. Five relative strangers in front of a coffee shop, grinning. Five women with five versions of the most amazing coffee you’ve ever had. Five pastries. One long climb ahead. It’s hard to say why it happened in that moment. Maybe it was the bench, our proximity to one another [...]

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Cycling

Coach Talk: Getting Nerdy About Cadence

4 Comments 22 April 2013

Last week, I spoke with Julie Krasniak about the benefits of working to increase cadence. She gave some interesting insights about how it has helped her along the way and how/if it can benefit normal schmucks like me. This week, we dig a little into the nerdy scientific side of cadence with Russell Cree, a Physical Therapist [...]

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