IT SOUNDS pretty straightforward. You, your bike, and the clock, riding in splendid isolation as quickly as you can, away from the rough and tumble of the peloton. In theory, a time trial should be a simple test of your ability to ride your bike as fast as possible over a set distance. But if
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Tour de France 2009 begins tomorrow, and this year we get an even better chance to follow the strongest cyclists in the world. Several riders share their data from the SRM Cranks Systems (power, heart rate, cadence, speed) and GPS position.SRM data are transmitted directly to watch them live along with the television transmission. Here
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This article is a guest post from Shim Ravalia, who studies a master’s in sports rehabilitation at the University of Kent (Gillingham, Medway). Now she is proposing a study on the effects of soy milk and semi-skimmed milk in the recovery period after exercise on trained male cyclists by looking at the time to exhaustion.
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In the last couple of weeks, I have covered the importance of VO2 max intervals. Even though VO2 max is an essential physiological skill, threshold power is even more crucial. The total power output at your threshold power is often a lot more critical than the absolute number at VO2 max. That also explains why
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If you are a time trialist or triathlete, one of the benefits of using a power meter is optimizing your aerodynamics. A better position on the bike supplied with aerodynamic equipment can help you to save seconds or even minutes in a time trial. Now I will show how you can use a power meter
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