I am frequently asked about what I eat on a daily basis to attain the nutritional values needed to sustain not only a healthy but very active lifestyle. Nutritional considerations for a vegan athlete include getting enough of they key nutrients of omega 3′s, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin D and …
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Merriam Webster defines endurance as the ability to withstand hardship or adversity; especially : the ability to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity.
Joe Friel, author of The Triathlete’s Training Bible, defines endurance as: The Ability to Resist Fatigue.
In most athletic pursuits, endurance can be the determining …
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com·mu·ni·ty
noun, often attributive \kə-myü-nə-tē\
1: a unified body of individuals:
a : state, commonwealth
b : the people with common interests living in a particular area; broadly
c : an interacting population of various kinds of individuals (as species) in a common location
Each of us, no matter …
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Mo gets creative to get her skinsuit clean in Belgium.
“Zeep” from Matt Roy on Vimeo.
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The week following the NEPCX series final in New England had me working two more days in my temporary Arlington office before finally settling into my newly renovated Cambridge office on Wednesday. It was fantastic to be settled into one place. It seems as if I have spent the entire …
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We’ve got a lot to cover in this week’s newsletter. I had two days of lighting-fast racing in Rhode Island. Also, I finally succumbed to the pressure and did an interview in my “native” tongue. But more importantly Matt and I put together a special edition newsletter, the MMRacing 12 …
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After getting home from Louisville, I took a much-needed day off of work and a nice training / recovery week followed by a weekend at home to clear out my head cold. I was feeling recovered enough by the following Sunday to get in a nice workout and begin my …
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When: after every ride. Yes, every ride. Do you take a shower after you get sweaty, wet and muddy? Okay. Take care of your bike and your bike will take care of you.
The following supplies will make cleaning your bike easy, breezy:
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Off-season. What’s an off-season? I hardly remember what a true off-season is anymore because I race nearly year round. I can tell you, though, that I am anxiously looking forward to a few weeks off in February between the end of ‘cross season and the beginning of road racing.
Although …
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I’m not gonna lie here. As a girl with a deathly aversion to leg hair I shave my legs every day whether they need it or not. And generally speaking if you shave that often they don’t need it. It becomes routine. And while I don’t understand why you boys …
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