Improve Your Threshold Power to Improve Your Gravel cycling Speed and Comfort

Gravel racing on bicycles requires building as big an FTP, or functional threshold power, as possible in order to maintain your power during long races.  Most of the time, gravel races are between 30 and several hundred miles.  As an older guy, I stick with the 50 to 70-mile races at a maximum and let […]

Improve Cycling Performance: Unveiling the Effects of Intervals

Most types of cycling training will bring results.  Whether you’re doing endurance riding or VO2max intervals, you’re going to improve your fitness.  Understanding the differences between the types of training can help you tailor your training to your specific goals and needs. Each type of interval targets different physiological systems and energy pathways and can […]

Achieve More Endurance Training Success Using Your Unique Thresholds

As regular everyday cyclists and runners, we need to maximize our training time.  That means we need to understand how to structure our training to get the most adaptation out of the least amount of training.  To do that, we need to know how hard and how easy to train so that we don’t end […]

Interval Training for Cycling: Unlocking Your Full Potential

We talk a lot about different kinds of intervals for cycling training, but we don’t always talk about why we do them! What is the value of doing intervals in the first place? Why do we want to make our riding harder? Well, you don’t really need to do intervals. But if you want to […]

Mastering Threshold Interval Training: HIIT-Style Workouts

The Midwest Gravel Tour kicked off at the start of March at the Dirty South Roubaix in southern Illinois on Saturday. My training has been different over the winter this year, more polarized with slow endurance and more threshold intensity.  In the past, I put in long miles with my heart rate firmly in the […]