Emanuela Bandol (@emstersweet) is obsessed with our Espresso and Dark Chocolate Enduro Bites. For as much as she admires our culinary creation, during a recent lunch together, we found ourselves eyeing her beet root falafel balls wrapped in lettuce. Noticing our keen interest, Emanuela offered to share her amazing recipe with us.
In my previous post (The S:6 Testing Protocol, Part 1) I talked about the importance of testing to track the progress of your training. Through testing we look to see improvements in power outputs at specific interval durations over 6-12 weeks between testing.
Before diving into another season of training on the bike, or jumping into serious training for the first time, it helps to know a few things about your current fitness as you get started…
It’s that time of year again. Shorter days and plummeting nighttime temperatures in much of the country make it challenging to ride as much as we’d like. Some resort to riding indoor trainers to maintain their hard-earned fitness, while others would sooner accept water torture.
Since power-based training has risen to the status of "must have" for effective training for serious cyclists, the use of heart rate as a training metric has been tossed aside by many.
