How often are you the rider in a group who claims that they would ride something gnarly “but not on this bike.” Is there a point where the distance based mountain bike racing that many of us love so much becomes a hinderance to the riding and racing we do – and we don’t end […]
Skills Coaching For Mountain Biking
Mountain bikers, or at least most male ones, are inveterate fettlers. Always tweaking a bit of bike set-up, getting excited about a new piece of kit, or boring everyone stupid about tyre or shock pressures. And even those that don’t do this probably spend considerable amounts of money on servicing for their bikes. And those […]
The best training and riding tunes
This is part three of three of a small series on music and riding. Parts one and two are here. I mentioned some favourite riding tunes in a diary update, so I thought it was about time to update that. Luckily we’re never forced to stick to just 10 tracks when riding. But with a nod to […]
Altitude training for marathon racing
I didn’t know it at the time, but I broke my hip on the final day of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic, one kilometre from the finish in Lourensford. Needless to say, that has resulted in my 2013 season being rather different than planned. Far from coming off the Epic to start a brilliant European season […]
How to train, realistically.
So here we are only a few weeks into the start of the 2013 season, and you’re still trying to work off the Christmas turkey and NYE beers from your bulging waistline. Starting a training program can be daunting. It takes time and there’s so many different approaches out there – how do you choose? Well […]
Hydration 101 – dealing with racing and training in Summer
Summer is here in Queensland and we all know the importantance of correct hydration and fluid replacement while training, racing and during recovery… or do we? When it comes to animals, I have a background in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care so I appreciate that not all fluids are the same and rehydrating a patient […]
Will Hayter’s Blog: Real winter training
Will is one half of the MarathonMTB.com team that will tackle the ABSA Cape Epic in 2011. He’s preparing for South Africa’s scorching temperatures by training in in the bitter UK winter. He loves it.