Southeast Cycling Source based in Greenville, South Carolina
This past week I joined over 800 cyclists from 49 states who gathered in Washington, DC for the National Bike Summit. As commuter cyclist and bike racing fan here in Greenville, I arrived looking to learn from leaders in South Carolina bike advocacy and discover how I can best contribute to the work already being [...]
Someone recently asked me to recommend some road bike ascents to do in the Southeast. The inquirer had two weeks for a big trip and wanted to climb as much as possible over that timeframe. With so many available could I pare a list down to the essentials (climbing wise)? It was a very interesting [...]
It seems early to talk about it, but it’s likely we’ve all experienced it. By late July the desire to do focused workouts or five-hour rides all but disappears. Usually you still have the desire to race or do group rides but your performance fades and the happiness your early-season fitness brought you has become [...]
It’s Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m. on one of the coldest mornings of the winter, but as I roll into the bike shop parking lot there are dozens of people taking down their bikes, putting on layer over layer of cold weather riding gear and downing the last few drops of coffee. This is Winter [...]
Competitive cyclists most often worry about and try to increase their threshold power putting much stock in this number and less if any thought into the ability to repeat a given effort. Consider this… you’re in a race, attack 40K into it and stay off the front averaging 325 watts (103% of your threshold power) [...]
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