[This is the first of an occasional series aimed towards my personal training clients] Is cycling or spinning better for you than running? Is one safer than the other? Awhile back, the New York Times’s Gretchen Reynolds replied to a reader’s question on this topic. Although well written and even-handed, […]
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Chris Horner won the Vuelta a España, becoming the oldest rider to win a grand tour. Those of us who are master blasters have a glimmer of hope. Or do we? As he closed in on the overall win, there were more than a few raised eyebrows. How does a […]
Read More →On his blog, Kris Freeman wrote that he had been cut from the U.S. cross-country ski team for next year. Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising. At 50th in the 2012-13 FIS standings for distance skiers, he falls outside USSA’s objective criteria. He’s had back to back tough years on the World […]
Read More →On Friday night, the word came down. The New York Times reported that Lance Armstrong was mulling whether he should confess to doping. The redoubtable Juliet Macur cited unnamed sources who said that Lance had reached out to USADA’s Travis Tygart about the possibility of a complete confession. Part of Armstrong’s […]
Read More →The naughty details are finally out. You can read all the affidavits, supporting documents and USADA’s logic for charging Lance Armstrong – among others – with systematic doping. Having devoured Tyler Hamilton’s book The Secret Race, I had an inkling of what was to come. While each rider has a […]
Read More →Lance Armstrong decided to drop his fight against the USADA’s doping charges. So I go on vacation and decide to make it a real vacation. Leave the laptop at home, relax – it was even an easy training week – and look what happens. Stuff hits the fan. America’s biggest […]
Read More →Frank Schleck faces a possible two-year ban from cycling after his B-sample tested positive for the diuretic Xipamide today. UCI confirmed the positive result and has requested disciplinary action. Schleck has protested his innocence and according to one source even suggested that he may have been “poisoned.” The Inner Ring has […]
Read More →There were hints of this in other news outlets today, and the internet was rife with denials and “no comments.” It’s reported that George Hincapie, Lance Armstrong’s right-hand man through all of his Tour de France triumphs, will testify against his former team leader the the U.S. Anti-Doping Association’s case […]
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