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What to Include NOW in your run training to be ready to crush your half marathon, marathon or ultra this summer. (Are you a Cyclist? CLICK HERE to go to your cycling Specific Spring Training Tips!) The Connecticut racing season is already heating up with in person road races, and if you check out the May race calendar on hitekracing.com … Read More

What to Include NOW in your cycling training to be ready for the 600k Challenge (not signed up yet? Click here!) (Runners CLICK HERE to go to your Run Specific Spring Training Tips!) We are one month away from the start of the CZC Spring Training 600K Challenge! For cyclists, this challenge includes either 6 x 100K or 6 x … Read More

“I’m toasty warm in my wetsuit, but I freeze when I run.”  This is what my coached athlete George Desmond, of John Desmond Builders, told me back in October when he was still swimming in the Long Island Sound. At that time, the water temperature was dropping down through the low 60s.  It’s now February, and he has swum through … Read More

1) Brush Hero Pro – This is one item you or your rider doesn’t even know you need yet! Riding on wet or grimy days gunks up the drive train and it’s important to clean it while it’s wet. The brush hooks to a garden hose, and allows you to scrub away gunk as you go! $49.95 2) Bike Cleaning … Read More

I remember the first time I ventured out on my road bike below 60 degrees. Living in Southern Maryland in November, and it felt SO COLD. It was probably 55 degrees and windy that day, and I chuckle to remember back to how tough we all felt heading out on our group ride, shivering and miserable clad in old school … Read More

Most track practices start with a warm-up designed to facilitate the work runners will do during their session. Generally, the warm-up includes both running drills as well common exercises that get the blood flowing and the joints lubricated. In this video, I’m demonstrating some of these warm-up drills and exercises, and their progressions. Completing a dynamic warm up before your … Read More

I love to be outdoors, and more specifically in the woods or on a mountain. I wasn’t always this way.  While a comfortable tomboy growing up, it wasn’t until I followed through with a scholarship to Colorado that I experienced mountains and trails for the first time.  With a college group called Wilderness Pursuits and newly made mountaineering friends, I … Read More

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt  Whether it’s your fault (you attacked the bike and blew up on the run in your brick), the … Read More

There is no doubt about it, having your races and events taken away from you this year stinks.  Some are taking consolation that their events have been postponed to later in the season, or their registration has been rolled to next year, but for some CZC athletes, they’ve gone in a totally different direction. With the freedom of having your … Read More

SUP Your Way to Stronger, Faster Swimming! Pools are closed, lakes are closed, and the Long Island Sound is freezing! This week alone I’ve referred so many clients to swim tethers that I’m expecting fences all around New England to be brought down by ambitious swimmers.  We want to swim! With a wetsuit and inflatable SUP, you can still work … Read More