Success at the London Duathlon!
- Posted: September 13, 2018
- By: sclark
- Category: Best Practice / Duathlon / Fuelling / Hydration / Power / Racing / RPE / Running / Technique
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This coming weekend, the London Duathlon will be raced for another year in the Royal Richmond park. The course is surprisingly far from flat and should not be under-estimated. So your preparation better have been top notch! However, good performance doesn’t stop at training alone. Avoiding physical crises such as glycogen shortage or ‘bonking’, cramps and […]
LVRC Toachim Vets Series
- Posted: November 14, 2017
- By: sclark
- Category: Coaching / Performance / Physiotherapy / Racing / Recovery / Training
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Simon Collins has been supported by CPS In-Motion for 3 full seasons now, each year having quite a different competitive focus and event schedule, rather than the same races, ranging from TT, to road-racing and occasional sportive. Even though each year, alone, has presented it’s own set of challenges for preparation, carefully navigating around injury, illness, work […]
Achieving Prime Cycling Performance
- Posted: October 23, 2017
- By: sclark
- Category: Coaching / conditioning / Endurance / Performance / Periodisation / Physiology / Power / Racing / Rehabilitation / Testing
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Intro.. Oliver Williams approached CPS In-Motion in July 2016 with the sole ambition of gaining top form for races in the 2017 season. Ollie had reached what he thought was his peak ability in 2015 having good results in the Tour of Cambridge, at the 6 stage Giro di Sardegna and Crystal Palace series. Suffering an […]
Gross Ambition
- Posted: November 12, 2014
- By: sclark
- Category: Lactate Threshold profiling / Racing / Technique / Training
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This is the time of year we need to be confirming what our events next spring will be, for a couple of good reasons; entrance registrations for the more popular public races open and close relatively quickly due to limited numbers. In particular events abroad have restricted foreign participants to save disappointment unless you have previously seeded or qualified, […]
Perfect Pacing
- Posted: August 4, 2014
- By: sclark
- Category: Lactate / Lactate Threshold profiling / Nutrition / Power / Racing / Time Trial / Triathlon
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The club 10 or an odd half-marathon now and again don’t seem to satisfy us endurance athletes anymore, as we seek bigger and bigger challenges the fitter we get. The number of sport science publications have also rocketed in the last few years, on hydration, fuelling and general long distance performance. Ultra-distance events are definitely […]
IM-Mallorca_70.3
- Posted: March 24, 2014
- By: sclark
- Category: Physiology / Power / Racing / Training
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Although now known as the most informative and accurately trackable performance parameter in cycling (and running), one of the most useful and direct applications for Maximal Lactate Steady State values are in Time-Trial, Duathlon and Triathlon, for a multitude of physiological reasons. Recently, I had the pleasure of profiling the lactate kinetics of three up-and-coming […]