Is the Exercise Cool-Down Really Necessary?
By GINA KOLATA @ NY TIMES
Published: October 13, 2009
MY husband and I were riding our bikes not long ago, and when we were about a mile from home, we did our usual thing. We call it the sprint to the finish: ride as hard and as fast as we can until we reach our driveway, [...]
PRODUCT REVIEW – SportMulti® by FTM
Go to any bike store today and it near impossible not to notice that there are more and more nutritional products taking up their shelf space. Whether in the form of pills, powders, or liquids they all claim some quick benefit to the aspiring amateur athlete. Trying to sort through [...]
Alternative Route Back A Winner For Roulston
by Ryland James
MARTIGNY, Switzerland, July 21, 2009 (AFP) – A chance meeting in a pub with an alternative healer is the last place you would expect a Tour de France rider to pin-point as the moment he got his career back.
Having been diagnosed in 2006 with [...]
Diary of a Cat 5er, Part II — Winter In The Dungeon
It’s been a long, cold winter here in middle America, our windy days coming with a particular “bite” that makes cycling outdoors a sport for the bold or the sick-of-mind, but not for you or me. We own the basements and gyms and YMCAs that provide the chance for a good comfortable workout, provided one [...]
Eric Heiden: Former Olympic Champ Helping To Build Future Champs At Team BMC
There are few teams lucky enough to have a former Olympic Champion and Tour
de France alumnus as their doctor. For Eric Heiden, it certainly seems
nothing succeeds like success.
After winning five Olympic gold medals for speed skating in 1980, Heiden
moved on to try his hand at professional cycling. He and Jim Ochowicz
helped form the [...]
Team Type 1 Will Speak To Students About Diabetes
Solvang, Calif. — Five members of Team Type 1 will pay a visit to a California elementary school to speak to students about Type 1 diabetes, the importance of bicycle safety and what it is like to be a professional cyclist.
Morgan Patton and Willem Van den Eynde – two of six racers on the [...]
Spain To Re-open Operation Puerto Doping Investigation
MADRID, Jan 17, 2009 (AFP) – Spanish justice is to re-open the Operation Puerto probe into blood doping in cycling which a judge had left on file last September, El Pais newspaper reported Saturday.
A provincial court in Madrid has ruled that there were indications of “an offense against public [...]
Double World Champion Rebecca Rusch Joins Bike Pure
Bike Pure are pleased to announce the arrival of Team Specialized racer and
2 time World Champion Rebecca Rusch. Rebecca, who has been a professional
for 10 years is one of the world’s finest endurance athletes. Her sporting
CV is littered with exceptional results from World Championships, USA
National Championships in two different sports – 24hr solo mountain biking
and [...]
World Aids Day 24 Hour Bike Ride
Beverly Hills High School and Team UTAC join to raise awareness on
Worlds AIDS Day, December 1
Santa Monica, Calif. – Nov. 25, 2008 – On Sunday, November 30 at 6 p.m., Cyclist and AIDS Activist Brian Hodes will begin a 24-hour bicycle ride to raise awareness around prejudice and stigma associated with AIDS and HIV. The [...]
Manufacturer of CERA Helped WADA Develope CERA Drug Test
The manufacturer of the third generation EPO, CERA, is helping the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) test for the illegal use of the drug by athletes. Roche Holding AG said that it has collaborated with WADA since 2004. “We were very pleased that this collaboration with WADA has been productive,” Roche spokeswoman Claudia Schmitt told the [...]
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