by simpleendurance | May 23, 2021 | Adventure, Cycling, Endurance Training
Sometimes, when you finish an adventure bike ride, you understand that you don’t ever need to do it again! I love riding on gravel and dirt roads. Love it. I finished the Hungry Bear 100, which starts in Cable, WI, is not quite 100 miles and is nearly...
by simpleendurance | May 11, 2021 | Endurance Training, Women Athletes
Eileen Whisler, an inaugural member of the Simple Endurance Coaching Adventure Team, finished her first adventure of the year on a hot, windy day at the Early Bird Triathlon in Whitewater, WI. Eileen reported that “the swim went well, for me. I swam the 1000...
by simpleendurance | Apr 30, 2021 | Endurance Training, HIIT, Workouts
Talk Tests, RPE, “Fast and Fastest” I’ve been writing a lot of training plans for runners and triathletes lately. And honestly, setting up intensities gets confusing as hell. Intensity is how hard you go during the particular workout. With most...
by simpleendurance | Apr 16, 2021 | Endurance Training, Recovery
Using Heart-Rate Variability May Be Great Training Tool Every morning – or unless I forget in the morning – I sit down with breakfast and get out my phone to measure my HRV. The app on my phone asks me about my previous day and night: training intensity,...
by simpleendurance | Apr 12, 2021 | Endurance Training, Strength Training, Workouts
When I was a middle school teacher, it was always critical for me to keep track of data, measure my students’ progress. How else would I know if they were actually learning what I was teaching? It’s the same for our fitness process. If you measure your...
by simpleendurance | Apr 10, 2021 | Adventure, Cycling, Endurance Training, Online Workouts
When cyclists start telling stories, it nearly always involves epic rides of a great distance. And while riders in other states take a week to cross their state, cyclists in Wisconsin have the opportunity to ride 200 miles in just one day with the Ride Across...
