In our last post, we used the term heart attack, and were informed that this was incorrect, and should have been cardiac arrest – we disagree with the ‘incorrect’ part, though we acknowledge that sudden death during exercise can have electrical explanations, and so perhaps ‘incomplete’ would have been more appropriate! Our focus in the […]
Sports Science
How to feed a cyclist
Roll on more tour posts! Following the pre-Stage 15 prediction, we will keep the posts coming as thick and fast as the attacks we have seen in Le Tour the past couple of days. In this short post we will get into what it takes to fuel a cyclist through a stage race like Le […]
Altitude training – the basics
So I really struggle to come up with a decent post for today, felt like doing something on cycling again, now that Jorg Jaksche has admitted to doping and suggested it is pervasive in the peloton. For some classic quotes, have a look at this article. The most telling this is the reaction of the […]
Drugs work – but by how much?
Performance enhancing substances – do they work? And by how much? It’s a relevant question, and I thought it would be good to have a look at the answers. I was going to write an article on the Ethiopian dominance of long distance running in the last ten years, but we’ve been receiving such thoughtful […]
So you want to run a fast marathon?
As the marathon record creeps slowly to Ross’s predicted 2:02, it is interesting to think about where the next world record might be run. Nearly every city and town seems to host its own race these days, and as a result there are hundreds of races each year. But where exactly are the “fastest” courses? […]
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