I know that Indoor Cycling is meant to represent Road Riding for the most part, and I love riding my road bike…but to tell the truth, I secretly feel like Mountain Biking is more fun (not much of a secret now, I guess). I always feel like I’m a little kid when I get on a mountain bike; it’s just a joyous experience. However, a steady diet of MTB can be kind of rough on the body, not to mention the bikes. Hence, I started road riding …

As shown in the last post, I’ve been able to manage a slower speed, thus reducing the required Watts/Lb for the Dirty Dozen. However, I still need to be able to train at significantly high power levels for the number of minutes each hill will require at those lower speeds. Having excellent recon on these climbs from our filming last year with Global Ride, as well as some training rides, I now have reliable % grades and distances to simulate the training indoors. But… will the Keiser …

As I begin writing I’m looking at the title and I’m compelled to mention the obvious. What ever happened to riding for the fun of it? Does that go without saying? Perhaps, but it should never go without. The day riding stops being fun, when all the smiles turn to grimaces, and the thought of a hundred different ways to spend time on 2 wheels doesn’t put a spring in my step will be the day to move on to the next obsession.

As is customary, I’ve opened my big mouth and am faced with the proverbial “put up or shut up”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one to trash talk and overstate my abilities. However, I am one that is always challenging others to accomplish things they think are bigger than themselves; to push past their own perceived limits and discover things about themselves they never knew. Sounds all good so far, but I have a basic life philosophy that tends to get me in trouble. To …

It stands to reason that if you follow a proven, methodical training plan, you should see results. Those results should be measurable objectively and felt subjectively. Since opening Global Ride Training Center, I’ve been following steady Heart Zones® and Cycling Fusion Power training routines. Results translated to doing the Giretto in 2009 (4 back to back stages of the Giro – over 400 miles and a ton of climbing in the alps) with 85% of that training indoors. Not just my results, but results abounded all …

If you’ve followed this blog for any amount of time, you know that I have a passion to see Indoor Cycling become all it can be. The desire to share the joys of riding outside with those whose only experience is in the gym has translated to many new riders hitting the trails, roads and single track outside in PA. At the same time, I’ve finally convinced enough of our “elite” racers to give the Indoor Cycling program a good try to see the results for themsleves. …

Sixteen weeks, countless hours on the bike, more Yoga & Pilates than I thought I’d ever see, and all the 40+ VO2 tests later, the results are finally in. The Winter Training program based on Cycling Fusion Training principles, at Global Ride has produced results that have exceeded even the most ambitious expectations set. These results were not relegated to just the first season participants either. From our newbies to our experienced racers, the numbers prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that This Stuff Really Works!

Yes, I do love indoor training when it is done right, but the weather has finally turned consistently warmer (at least in PA), and it’s time to get outside and soak up some of that beautiful sunshine. Especially if you have been training for a big outdoor charity ride, like one of the MS 150s or even a 30 or 50 mile Epic ride of sorts, it’s time to log some outdoor miles.

Tomorrow we officially hit the half way point of our 16 week Winter Training program at the Global Ride Training Center. We’ve employed the Keiser M3 power indoor bikes and Cycling Fusion principals to maximize our use of the indoor environment. We are preparing for personal bests and new levels in the great outdoors on two wheels.

It was an interesting turn of the tables. Instead of me asking a cycling blogger to take a look (or in my case, a ride through) one of my Global Ride DVDs to render an opinion, I was being asked by Stephen Auerbach to review his film about the Race Across America (RAAM). Before I give you my take on it, let me tell you how I watched it. Yeah, you’re already ahead of me, I watched it while riding my Keiser M3 indoor bike. It’s …