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This is a pretty cool article on VeloNews on some of the latest ways that riders are able to recover quicker by cooling down their core body temperature.
Watch the video below.
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This mornings Shootout was a fast one thanks to Curtis Gunn pictured to the left. Curtis is a professional cyclist and just got back from the Bend Memorial Clinic Cascade Cycling Classic stage race and was racing amongst top name cyclists Levi Leipheimer, Phil Zajicek, Tom Danielson, and Chris Horner just to name a few.
Curtis showed up this morning on his TT bike ready to put the hammer down. He is getting ready for a time trail and wanted to put some miles in on his TT bike.
From the start Curtis went to the front in his arrow position and drilled it. The 125+ riders were quickly strung out. Gord Fraser and a few others rotated through - That is if you could pull through at 25 mph to 30 mph+.
After the bridge the packed was down to about 25 riders still hanging on to the pace set by Curtis. As we started up the climb to the top of the sprint Team Rhino took over and set up the lead out for their teammate Kyle Akin. Kyle Akin took yellow followed by his teammate Richard Moore.
Coming back into town setting up for the sprint Curtis Gunn was drilling it from the front and Gord Fraser had his wheel with the pace around 33mph+. Unfortunately we got stopped by the light and I was slow to respond when the light turned green and don’t know who won the sprint. If you know who win please comment below.
No offense to the female cyclists but the CHICK-O-METER was HIGH today. In the old days, we us to gage the intensity of the Shootout by what we called the CHICK-O-METER. If there were female cyclists that made it all the way around the CHICK-O-METER was low which meant the Shootout was too easy. Lately I have heard some of the old timers like Peter Brown, Jimmy Ricatello and a few others refere to the CHICK-O-METER so I had to throw this in here. Again no offense to the ladies.
For a book of the best bike rides in Tucson, Arizona visit:
www.trisports.com/road-bike-rides.html
For the Shootout route visit:
www.roadbikerides.com/ride/view/shootout_/77
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If Yogi Berra were a cyclist, here’s what he’d say: cycling is 90% mental, and the other half is physical. Yet with enough self-confidence, our minds tend to stay out of the way, and we have the freedom to perform to our potential. The mentally fit cyclist knows how to assess, maintain, and build self-confidence to improve fun and performance on the bike.
By Marvin Zauderer
The building blocks of the mentally fit cyclist’s five core skills, by describing how managing your will to succeed can play an important role in your mental fitness and cycling performance. This month, I explore Self-Confidence, perhaps the most important element of every athlete’s mental fitness.
For the article The Mind of a Mentally Fit Pro, I asked pro cyclist Steven Cozza of Slipstream-Chipotle H3O about mental skills that have been challenging for him. He didn’t miss a beat:
“Confidence. It’s a huge thing in cycling. I was even told by some people,‘consider a career change.’ You can improve so much by believing in yourself. You can say, ‘I should be at the front of the race, I should be top 5.’ You don’t have to be cocky, but if you’re not confident, you don’t stand a chance. You’ve got to believe in yourself.”
Confidence. Some of us seem born with it. Some of us are lucky enough to grow up among family, friends, and mentors who help develop it in us. But for many of us, at least in certain aspects of our lives, it’s an ongoing challenge.
As I noted in the article on Goal-Setting, much of what we’ve learned about self-confidence in sport builds on the work of psychologist Albert Bandura of Stanford University (home of the current national champion road cycling team — defending their title this week!). Bandura defined self-efficacy as your belief in your “capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage prospective situations.” Roughly translated: Your belief that you can achieve your goals.
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WHAT IS BIKENODE?
Bike node is a directory of cycling links for the benefit all types of cyclists.
THE BIKE NODE VISION:
The idea is simple: “to help connect cyclists”.
If you have a cycling site submit your site to BikeNode: http://www.bikenode.com/
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RoadBikeRides.com and Ride-Strong.com are proud to announce the completion of the first book of many.
Inside this book you will find:
The book will be sold in local bike shops along with Amazon.
To order the book online visit the link below:
www.trisports.com/road-bike-rides.html
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Congratulations to Caleb Fuchs of Santa Rosa, NM and Cliff de Witt of DeSoto, TX. They were the winners of this post www.ride-strong.com/free-cagepack-write-up and will be each receiving a CagePack. Cliff de Witt Ride-Strong.com needs your address so we can mail out your CagePack. Please go to the contact page and email us you mailing info.
THANK YOU CAGEPACK FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE! http://www.cagepack.com/
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This morning Shootout started with a little photo shoot with Jason Karew of Eclipse Racing. Jason Karew lost a bet to Paul Thomas and the loser had to wear a Tri suit during the Shootout. If you ask me I would have liked to have seen Jason in a Speedo and a singlet top. Paul let Jason off easy. Pictured above Jason Karew and Paul Thomas and pictured below Jason Karew.
There was a good group of 100+ to start off this mornings ride. Ralph Phillips started the ride with his famous shout of “Its Bike Time!”
The pace was steady and fast. There was a rotation of about 10 riders up front driving the train. There were a few attacks 
but for the most part the group stayed together today. Pro racer Gord Fraser took Yellow and the sprint finish at the top of the climb.
Coming back into town Waste Management had the lead out train going leading up to the sprint keeping the pace high. Kyle Akin of Team Rhino was able to capitalize on Waste Managements efforts and took the sprint finish.
I have to brag a little about my wife Mimi Ford of Eclipse Racing. She made it all the way around the Shootout. On occasion a female rider will make it all the way around. It happens during the winter training months when the pro females are in town. It is rare that an amateur age grouper female makes it around. Scott Blanchard of Pyramid Coaching has been training Mimi for the last 6 months and it has been paying off. GREAT JOB MIMI!
For details on the Shootout click on the link below.
www.roadbikerides.com/ride/view/shootout_/77
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Clincher VS Tubular Tires and what is the difference?
CLINCHER
The tire that most of us are familiar with is the clincher tire. The clincher tire consists an inner tube and a tire. The tire has a “bead” on each outer edge of the tire. On most tires, the beads consist of hoops of steel wire. The beads are what hold the tire in place on the rim.
TUBULAR
The tubular , or sew up, tire is a one piece system where a tire is sewn together around the inner tube. Tubulars are used on special rims and are held to the rim by glue or two sided tape.
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Ride-Strong.com has just reached 800 RSS feed subscribers and is approaching 1,000 members. Once we reach 1,500 members the bike will be raffled off.
Please take a look at the upper right hand side of the blog and you can see the number of RSS subcribers Ride-Strong has on any given day.
We were just notified that Colnago is doing a close out on their 2008 bikes and have an opportunity to get a better deal on the bike that Ride-Strong.com will be giving away. So what that means is that Ride-Strong.com needs 1,500 RSS subscribers this month. You could be the lucky winner of the bike so pass this post on to all your fellow cyclist and tell them to follow the directions on the link below to be eligible to win.
Click on the link below for the Colnago bike giveaway.
www.ride-strong.com/cowabunga-win-a-brand-new-colnago-carbon-bike/
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