Archive de l'auteur : Steen Rose

Usually the Saturday group ride is a race simulation for me, but last week I was just looking for a moderate training day, and I went with a different goal and strategy in mind. How often do you tackle a normal ride in a different way? In the past I’ve recommended mixing things up and doing a new and different ride, but there’s another way to add some variety to your...

It’s tough to over-state the importance of video analysis for triathlon. It’s tough to see yourself, and our spatial awareness and proprioception can fool us, especially if we don’t have a point of reference. This past weekend I sat down with a client who had been working on his running form based on what he’d read. He thought he was on the right...

We’ve all heard and read that specificity is key. Heck I’ve said it before in this column. But I’m beginning to think that the majority of triathletes have taken this a little bit too far. Which is kinda like saying your local radio station played “Achy Breaky Heart” a few too many times in 1992. Recently I had a triathlete tell me that he didn’t want to swim...

It’s been a busy month at Athletes On Track for coaches and athletes alike. On the cycling side of things we have contested road, track, mtb, and time trial races, while the multisport-minded among us have done duathlons, triathlons, Xterras, and aquathons. In April the focus will be on race-specific fitness for many as A-priority races, like Ironman Texas, Cross Worlds,...

Weeknight Crits: The Right Way to Get Dropped With the advent of Daylight Savings Time, the weekly crits have started for most of us, offering an excellent mid-week training and racing opportunity. Some of you will get dropped. I’d like to talk about the right way to get dropped. I started racing the Memorial Park Crit in Houston in 1997, and I got dropped plenty of...

Cheating on your bike. How many bikes do you own? How often do you ride them? It seems like I am constantly reminding roadies that they need to dust off their time trial bikes and actually ride them if they want to perform well in an upcoming time trial. But if roadies don’t ride their timed-race bikes frequently enough, triathletes ride them too frequently. Let me be...

Dress for Success What should I wear? Early in my career, I would stand in front of my dresser trying to answer that question, then head out on a ride and frequently either freeze or fry. After lots of trial and error, I’m much better at picking training and racing clothes. Here are my suggestions. First, get good information. Glancing out the window doesn’t cut it....

Hopefully, we’re all familiar with the concept of specificity – your training should look increasingly like your race the closer the race gets. This should be common sense – if you are training for a marathon you’re not running too many 200m sprints, and if you’re training for a 5k you’re not doing 15mi tempo runs. However, how far do you take this? I see many...

Coach Steen Rose For some good info on how to set up your bike computer to maximize it’s usefulness, surf over to my Training Pages blog post. I’ve got something a little less nuts-and-bolts, but much more important, to talk about today. Recently, the cycling community in my area lost a popular athlete to a bike-car collision. More recently, I watched the Olympic Marathon...