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Performance Testing – A Vo2 Max test
Last week I revisited the incredible team at Surrey Human Performance Institute for a vo2 max test. My last one was in June, when my vo2 max was 47.5 at a power of 240 watts. I was in the middle of my racing season so took on board the new training program as much as...
How to strength hip flexors for cycling.
How to strength hip flexors for cycling. After completing Ride London last year, high on my cycling achievements I cracked on with training for my next big event, double Hadliegh the Olympic course, twice in two months! I developed a niggle in my knee mid August in...
Spinning through winter
Keeping training momentum in the summer is easy, you jump from work to your bike and eat up the miles and sprint up the hills with the birds singing and the sun shining until late. In these conditions its easy to have decent training sessions and concentrate on your...
Protein supplements
Protein supplements Powder and Bars. Training sometimes feels like the easy part, it's simple you have a programme you put the effort in, you get the results out (sort of). The difficulty comes in finding good nutritious, quick food to eat around my training. I have...
USN Vooma Gels
The day started early, leaving the house at 7.00 to drive down to the New Forest to take part in our first Sportive. I had convinced Martyn we should do it together and that we wouldn't race it but just enjoy it, I wasn't until we arrived that it became apparent...
#MyLocalSpot: Crooksbury Hill and Heathland
Crooksbury Conservation Area is located in the peaceful, picturesque Surrey Hills just outside Farnham. It is an expanse of wood and heathland with Crooksbury Hill being a prominent feature on the landscape. It rises steeply to the south from 110m to 162m above sea...
Layer up and do it with friends – Winter Training Tips
Winter is officially upon us! The days have become shorter engulfing evening rides in darkness and frozen noses as we roll out onto yet another frozen single track or road. Personally, I love winter rides there is nothing better than the feeling of warmth that comes...
Giant Cyclotron Turbo Trainer
When Giant send things through to review its like Christmas the anticipation of ripping of the tape and opening the box to discover what delights are inside to try out. So when in October a month before my birthday a huge box big enough for me to fit in arrived at...
2013 Racing Season Round Up
In October last year, inspired by the Olympics and my first ever mountain bike race I started training and working towards my first season. I worked hard over the winter to go from fairly fit to race fit attending cyclo cross training in Southampton and putting in...
Mud Sweat and Gears Round 8, Hadleigh Olympic Course
MSG Round 6 Hadleigh The weekend started in not the most ideal situation, 5 hours on the m25 because of a serious accident, meant we arrived at Hadleigh, for what was meant to be my day of getting used to the course, with 15 minutes until it closed! Luckily I was...