Ah, January… motivation is high, daylight is low, and the weather seems personally offended by your training plans. You want to ride. You just don’t necessarily want to scrape ice off your bike or negotiate wet roads in the dark.
The stretch between Christmas and New Year is meant to be slow. We sit longer, eat more, drive from one warm living room to another, and let the days blur together. For cyclists, that pause often extends into early January. The bike stays indoors. The…
You’ve emerged from the end-of-year glow with a belly full of roast potatoes and a head full of dreams. This is it. You’re going to ride consistently. Maybe even train. Maybe even stretch after rides instead of just collapsing onto the carpet like a haunted…
For years, gluten has been treated as a likely troublemaker among endurance athletes. Many cyclists experimented with cutting it out, hoping to reduce bloating, stomach cramps, or improve recovery. But a major new scientific review suggests that, for most people who believe they are gluten…