My First Century Veteran and VeloPro Brand Ambassador Adam Fast gives us the inside scoop behind his preparations for the very challenging 2019 Swift Summit NW 200/100. The Swift Summit is a gran fondo style race, mostly self-supported with only a couple of aid stations/control points along the route. The 100-mile event has 5,800 ft of climbing. The 200-mile event has 11,000 ft of climbing. This is no easy day in the saddle for any racer.
read moreHere's a little video of our third team ride in prep for the big one. We took on Eugene Velo's Mohawk Valley Metric Century!
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No purchase necessary to enter or win. The VeloPro/Verve Cycling InfoCrank Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 or older as of date of entry. Void where prohibited by law.
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Congratulations! Cycling is the only sport where performance is absolute and can be definitively measured at every juncture. This is commonly referred to as “training or riding with power.” Power allows you to train with a specificity that other sports can’t match.
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My First Century Athlete, Ken Massheimer, shares the agony and ecstasy of GPS tracking on his big Strawberry Century Ride.
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Ken Massheimer shares the ups and downs training for My First Century and a couple of unexpected benefits.
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Coach Kadir's annual Marin Cycling Camp is one of the best times in cycling. Every May for the last 13 years, he leads a fully supported week of blissed out rides in beautiful Northern California. It's a perfect way to ride yourself into shape for the Spring and Summer cycling season. Coach keeps the group small so everyone get plenty of personal attention. Here's how this year unfolded.
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It has been a long journey. We kicked-off the My First Century program in January of this year. Ten athletes of all ages, genders and walks of life signed up for a life changing goal, to complete a 100-mile ride. After training for six months, how did our MFC athletes do? Did they reach their goal?
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We proud to introduce you to VeloPro athlete Jeff Sigman. Jeff has been with VeloPro from the beginning. This year he's qualified for the famous Paris-Brest-Paris Randonnée! Jeff will be blogging his experiences as he trains for and then experiences this 1200K epic ride.
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This past weekend I had a chance to reconnect with the reasons I ride in a profound way. I am an analyst by nature and by profession. As such, I am extremely motivated by metrics and having a training plan that allowed me to track ride time, power and effort was amazing. Since January, and my training with VeloPro, I have spent more than 100 hours on my bike, logged over 1,600 miles and gained 87,000 feet of elevation. My functional threshold power or FTP has increased from 150 W/kg to 212 W/kg. I trained, I raced, and I trained again. I have gotten fitter, faster, and feel ready for my first century ride in the coming week. This weekend however, I slowed it all down and went out to enjoy the scenery and company in eastern Oregon. I still logged those miles, but I wasn’t racing to improve my time or power output, I was just out there to connect with my bike.
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My daughter, Layla, was born December 11th, 2018, right around the time I signed up for My First Century...
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The My First Century Team completes the first event ride on our journey!
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Yesterday was the Mohawk Valley Metric Century. *Spoiler Alert* I finished.
read moreCheck out our MFC featured athletes as they train in the rain for their first century ride!
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Riding is the latest in a long line of sports I’ve pursued over the last fifty years and, at the age of 67, the repetitive impact involved in those activities has taken a toll on my leg joints.
read moreGet my take on hand numbness while riding. This video by AskDoctorJo also does a good job explaining some things you can do to ease the pain.
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It’s good to look back often and remember where you came from, but I also believe it’s better to look ahead at all that life offers, that you can reach for.
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