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Fatigue and Riding Styles
05/16/08: Every spring it happens. After a winter of mostly solo rides either commuting or indoors on the trainer doing intervals, the first few group rides of the year are just brutal reawakenings to the realities of the highly variable nature or racing. (Read More)

D3 Pro Tips: Avoiding Long Rides on the Trainer
02/21/08: If you’ve read my training journal from this winter you’ll notice two things. I wasn’t kidding when I said in November “I refuse to ride indoors this winter” and in December when I said “triathlon is a summer sport”.

I have managed a lot (Read More)

Key Cycling Workouts in an Ironman Build
01/16/08: In August of 2007 I competed in Ironman Canada and finished the race in 9:00:xx. Ten weeks later I finished Ironman Florida in 8:40:xx. The primary catalyst to this time improvement (aside from a flatter course) came from improved bike fitness (Read More)

Xtri Review: Zinn and the Art of Triathlon Bikes, by Lennard Zinn
09/20/07: It never fails to amaze me how little many triathletes know about their bikes. Sure, a certain percentage of folks have no intentions of ever wielding a 5mm hex key in anger. For the rest of us, I can make this book review very quick and painless: (Read More)

Mark Allen: Let's Talk Cadence
04/24/07: Let’s talk cadence. This has become a very hot topic and one that is worth exploring in your own training. If you watched the Tour de France for the past few years would have been impossible to not notice a dramatic difference in the cadence (peddle (Read More)

Jay Prasuhn Reports: Zipp, Cervelo, CSC make strides at San Diego Wind Tunnel
02/21/07: Just a few days before the start of the Tour of California, former Tour de France champ and CSC team manager Bjarne Riis took three of his team’s top guns to San Diego for aerodynamics testing at the San Diego Wind Tunnel. Aside from enjoying a day (Read More)

The Training of Truth
02/01/07: In the sport of bike racing, the time trial is often referred to as the “race of truth” because it pits individual riders against the unforgiving and unflinching clock. The bike leg of most triathlons is also a time trial, but unlike traditional (Read More)

Racing on PowerCranks
12/28/06: The previous articles in this series have been concerned with the initial adaptation phase of PowerCranks use and the subsequent Basic Endurance phase of training. It is now time to get serious and discuss the strategy involved to promote a successful Po (Read More)

Pro Bike Report: Ironman Australia
04/07/05: Early season Ironman races are a great place to check out the latest cool bike gear the aero techs have dreamed up over winter. Duncan Blake went poking around the pro bike corral at Ironman Australia ... and he liked what he saw (Read More)

Bike Fit Canada
01/27/05: xtri.com regular, Mark Steckel, had tweaked and tuned his way into an uncomfortable bike position so he took his rig along to Canadian fit expert, Dan Rishworth, to find out just how it should done (Read More)

Pro Bike Report: Ironman Florida
11/22/04: David Greenfield and his elite crew rolled up their sleeves once more to report from the oily depths of the pro bike racks at Ironman Florida. This is what they saw there (Read More)

Interbike Review
11/16/04: When he wasn't fielding enquiries at his own busy patch of the massive trading floor at Interbike, David Greenfield of Elite bikes managed to check out some cool new tri gear. Here are a few of his favourites (Read More)

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