Century rides are a great way to increase your fitness, see some beautiful country and have a fun time riding your bike. Some upcoming Spring season Century Rides in the Northwest include: Tour de Cure 7 Hills of Kirkland Flying Wheels Chelan Century Apple Century Group Health Inland Empire Century
read onEvery cyclist, novice or seasoned, has a mental checklist of bike routes that they are familiar with and feel comfortable riding without a map or cue sheet. But sometimes we just get bored, and winter with all those long slow distance miles and time on the trainer can be especially trying. Let us remember that [...]
read onHey there trifolks! I first started doing triathlons thirty years ago and over these three decades I’ve completed in hundreds of races. Triathlon training in the northwest can be particularly challenging due to our often cold, wet weather, but there are ways around mother nature, and I’ll review some of those here. At fifty-nine, I [...]
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Erik Moen PT will be speaking at the 2012 Seattle Bicycle Expo on Sunday, March 11, from 11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Topic: 5 Keys to Riding Faster in 2012. Check out the full Seattle Bicycle Expo schedule.
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OK. So, I used to hate trainers. Really, truly. I hated being in one spot for a long time. It would hurt my girl parts, my hip, everything. I couldn’t get comfortable. When I lived in Seattle, I would have rather ridden in the rain and dark for 4 hours than ride the trainer for [...]
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Goal setting can help you real new milestones in your cycling, and now is a great time to get started. DREAM Brainstorm – Go back to your “Bucket List” or create one, think about what brings you joy, what energizes you, makes you excited about life. Think about what obstacles are out there that you [...]
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Winter training is an important part of maintaining and developing fitness for your upcoming seasonal goals. We don’t all have the luxury of training in the sunshine, so getting comfortable with cold weather cycling is a goal in and of itself. Training in winter can present us with wet, frozen and dark conditions. Winter conditions [...]
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Join Erik Moen and Graham Hunter (owner of Veloce Velo) on Tuesday morning training rides. Rides will start at 10am and leave from Veloce Velo on Mercer Island. Get out there! Address is: 2750 77th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040
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Flexibility has gotten a few knocks in the common press as of late. The knocks have come in relationship to the use of stretching before an event to prevent injury during that event, but the numbers don’t lie. While it’s true that stretching just prior to an event alone will not “save your bacon” with [...]
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