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Blog Featured April 14, 2023

New Canyon Ultimate Can’t Keep It Up

It can happen to anyone, right? Things are just starting to heat up. Body is getting nice and warm. Just getting the rhythm down. Then suddenly, it happens again! The rigid thing between your legs just disappeared; hopefully no one got hurt. After all, a bruised ego is the most common cycling injury. Is flaccid the right term? No…. probably not. But frankly, at this point it’s getting kind of embarrassing for…

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Blog March 20, 2023

Have a Specialized Mirror Saddle? You might need to skip the Chamois Cream.

I ran across a post on Reddit the other day where someone claimed that they were told that using chamois cream with the saddle might destroy it. That seemed really strange to me, because the Venn diagram of people who buy expensive 3D printed saddles who’s entire reason for existence is to enhance comfort, and people who use chamois cream is probably a circle.…

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Blog Featured February 20, 2023

Moving Towards Optimal Event Nutrition

About a year ago, a friend sent me an article with some really interesting claims around Mathieu van der Poel’s (MVP) race day nutrition plan. I didn’t put any effort into it at the time. Just assumed that it was just another one of those super-human things that MVP can do, that the rest of us can’t. I was wrong. We’ve been fed a lie about endurance fueling.…

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Blog February 9, 2023

Call of a Life Time? 🤦

I feel like someone at Life Time Grand Prix HQ should have done a few searches before naming their marketing fluff, promotional material, YouTube series about their gravel/MTB race thing. I had to go to the second page of Google to find it; you know, where they hide the bodies, and I knew it was there; somewhere. The image above is the first result. I actually, thought that I’d been Rickrolled for…

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Blog Featured February 7, 2023

Tri-curious?

Something has been on my mind a lot lately, and it’s probably time I said it out loud. Some of you have noticed that I’ve been swimming, and it’s not because of my back problems. My family already knows my secret. They found the wet suit back in December. It was awkward, and they were a little confused, but after we talked a little, very supportive, and understanding. Even now, it’s still…

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Blog Featured January 25, 2023

Glad I got the MRI

I’m going to say it started seven or eight years ago, but the more I think about it the more I suspect that the issues with my lower back began quite a bit longer ago than that. But that’s when it hit the place where I couldn’t ignore it anymore, so let’s roll with it. And by “couldn’t ignore” I mean crippling pain. It hurt to walk on uneven surfaces, I couldn’t…

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Blog December 16, 2022

Strava Year In Sport, Paywalled

I totally get that Strava really wants people to pay, and I think that if you get value consistent with the price, $80/year, that’s great. You should totally do that. What I don’t get is how they consistently take things that used to be part of the “free” offering, and push them behind the paywall. They did it with segments, and now it’s Year In Sport.…

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