Summary: Intense sports training may be good for the body, but it might not always be so good for the mind. Researchers found the more intense a training session is, the lower both mood and heart rate variability are the next day. Source: UAB To build fitness, athletes must apply stress to the body, and …
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It’s safe to say that Angela Naeth knows a thing or two about endurance. The 40-year-old Canadian entered her first triathlon competition in 2008. Since then, Naeth has earned more than 30 podiums in the 70.3 Ironman distance, and has logged three sub-nine-hour Ironman finishes. And despite her diagnosis of Lyme disease in 2018, she …
“I’m sorry but what is men’s racing,” my esteemed colleague Amy Lauren Jones texts as the peloton sets off from Budapest for the first few meters of the 2022 Giro d’Italia. “RIP that’s so dead. Two seconds and the break is established, 193km to go and everyone sits up. Dudes having a wee. ” This …
The true connoisseur appreciates nothingness: A message for the slow stage haters Read More »
ANALYSIS: Olivia Podmore’s family know they may never get all the answers they need. They accept it’s unlikely they will ever truly come to understand the complex set of circumstances that led to the elite cyclist’s suspected suicide in August last year – a tragedy her mother Nienke Podmore says she never saw coming. The …
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LockerRoom Just a year after taking up road cycling, Kim Cadzow is already a national champion and now targeting more success in Europe, Henry Rounce writes. Before Kim Cadzow met her coach Patrick Harvey, she didn’t even know there was such a thing as being a professional cyclist. She had now the idea you could …
The five of them are closely bunched, pedalling 16 laps as hard as they can for four kilometers, about half of it on curves banked at a gravity-challenging 42 degrees. So, you better have faith in the other four. “When you’re riding a few inches from each other on bikes with no brakes and just …
World BMXer champion Jessie Smith was at the brink 12 months ago, seriously considering suicide, in part she says because of a high performance system that let her down. Smith retired from the sport at just 20 years old, while holding on by “an absolute thread”. Five months later someone she shared the high performance …
It took one hundred and twenty-five years for women to have the opportunity to race Paris-Roubaix. History had to be written many times before we finally saw that army of female cyclists riding over the muddy cobblestones. The winner that day was Britain’s Lizzie Deignan, a double world champion on the track and road and …
“I’ll be back soon. Count on me” – Changing perceptions of motherhood – Rouleur Read More »
By Alan Baldwin © Reuters / Lucy Nicholson PHOTO FILE: Christie of Britain practices in preparation for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, in Sochi LONDON (Reuters) – Elise Christie delivered pizzas to earn a crust when her Olympic dreams faded but now the Scot is ready to race again after replacing her speed skates with …
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Zwift has announced a round of staff layoffs as well as the “pausing” of its smart bike hardware plans, that were announced just a few months ago. While the numbers of affected employees haven’t been released, the current economic climate is stated as the primary reason behind the online training giant’s decision. In a statement, …
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