By Bethany Rutledge This week’s QOTW was inspired by the question asked by most beginners at one time or another. Variations of the question include “Is my heart rate too (fast, slow, high, low). ” Here, we seek to get to the root of the issue which is heart rate Read more…
By Bethany Rutledge The month has flown by and we have a lot of great results to report from our star athletes: Congratulations to Andy Smith, who had a fantastic, well executed race at 2017 Ironman 70.3 Coeur d’Alene yesterday! Nice work, Andy. Great job to everyone who raced at Read more…
By bethany What cadence should I ride? This is a common question from new cyclists faced with a host of new data, when before they may have just been focused on mph and cadence as their only two metrics for measuring their cycling performance. Cadence alone won’t get you anywhere. Read more…
By bethany Unless you have a flexible or nontraditional work schedule, something every dedicated athlete must face, at least occasionally, is the prospect of training early in the morning. It can be tough to wake up knowing others are still snug in their beds. But how best to make it Read more…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have you ever had a bad race? Duh. If you’re been training or racing more than two seconds, of course you have! And anticipating the possibility of a future not-perfect race leads us to an important training step you have missed- setting up your post race excuses. I originally wrote “How Read more…
It took me awhile to absorb the full impact of what Chattanooga 70.3 meant to be this year. For starters, it was the first ‘big’ race where I truly felt like myself in a few years. Now I feel like I keep saying that but the truth is, it’s hard to remember what feeling good felt like until you get there again. As time passed, with each degree of feeling more like my old self health wise, I thought maybe I had arrived. But by the grace of God, I have continued to march towards the place I once took for granted. To be healthy enough to go hard without reservations and doubt. (more…)