Training Goals:  I need goals.  I need them to stay focused and motivated. I was having a hard time training consistently without any goals. For the last year or so I have been able to manage at most 6 or 7 hours a week training. Its not much. I race MTB in the expert 40-50 class and the races are 25-30 miles long. We have big fields here in Georgia and the racing is fast. Its bloody hard to be competitive on 6 or 7 hours a week. So I had to change my goals around. This year my main racing goals will be in the fall cyclocross season. But that is too far off to keep me m... Read more

Trainer Sessions, Watts and Your Brain: "Ninety nine percent of racing is between your ears." A quote from Kevin Schwantz, one of my favorite GP motorcycle racers of all time. Kevin was talking specifically about motorcycle racing, but that bit of insight applies to all the forms of racing that I have been involved in. Aggressive bike racing is hard. I am not talking about wobbling around in a peloton all day. Trying to go off the front of a road race, killing yourself in a TT or trying to win a mountain bike race takes serious effort and serious discomfort. Doing intervals on a trainer can help you p... Read more

Making More Power on Your Bike:  There is more than one way to increase your power on your bike. The really good thing is that you can do more than one of them at a time. Some are related to training. Some are related to equipment or nutrition. Still others are related to your rmind.  How can riding on a trainer be a powerful tool for increasing your racing readiness? How can you add an additional high quality high intensity training session per week without over training? How will this benefit you? How can you be faster tomorrow? For nothing. How can you increase sustainable w... Read more

A little more than 30 days...: A little more than 30 days since I last added to this stream. Its been a series of things: Sick children, big work deadlines, wife's root canal and work on cyclingpowerdata.com related updates and design. The 2011 kit design is approaching completion. I may post a couple of final stage options just for an outside opinion. Updates to this site include a forum, rider avatars and equipment profiles, ride/file tagging, groups, better file handling and the ability to upload zipped collections of files to get your data history online with no hassle. I am also looking into an ... Read more