As I am only a novice race rider, I have very little experience with race nutrition (gels, bars, liquid food and so on). I rode the Stoneman Arduenna a couple of years ago and that I think was the only time I ate bars and used gels. The one memory
The Wahoo Kickr has been living under on our roofed terrace for a week now, and I've managed two proper sessions so far. Jeroen's warning about indoor trainers being psychologically different is starting to make sense, though I haven't hit the wall yet whatsoever.
A couple of weeks into training with those Cyclinglab results, something's been bugging me. The 230W anaerobic threshold from the lab test felt accurate, but during training it feels different i.e. the training with associated power zones and corresponding heart rates don't really match us.
After years of no really training, but just doing my rounds on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug MTB trails, things have changed, now that Jeroen and me are training for Cape Epic. In this structured approach, using JOIN, everything is about relative (power) output. I started by following my heart rate monitor,
This morning I stepped on the scale: 81.6kg. BMI 24.1. Technically healthy, but those SEG Cyclinglab results show that every kilogram matters when you're trying to cylcle up mountains. Jeroen's at 18.1% body fat, I'm at 21.1%, so there'
Last week, Jeroen and I went to Cyclinglab in Amsterdam for our baseline fitness tests. With Cape Epic 2026 still short of 7 months away and our goal of finishing top 20 in the Masters category, we figured it was time to face the music and know where to focus
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