A quick tip on building bike-handling skills that road and TT miles don’t develop: hit the technical, rocky single-track at Stillwell Woods and Cunningham Park to sharpen balance, adjustment, and recovery.
HIGHLIGHTS
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Spending hours and hours on a road or TT bike doesn’t necessarily build bike handling skills. However, if you ever find yourself in the need for some skill building, let me recommend you Cunningham Park and Stillwell Woods. They both feature rocky and rooty terrain, with single one way tracks. These technical trails have tested my ability to adjust and recover.
At a Glance On a tight 5.5-week turnaround after 70.3 Worlds, I raced Ironman Louisville to a big swim PB and a first-in-age-group bike, then gutted out the marathon despite under-fueling — punching my ticket back to Kona for 2016. HIGHLIGHTS Result: qualified for the 2016 Ironman World Championship in Kona Swim PB of 68:55…
At a Glance A January 2014 training tally logged in TrainingPeaks WKO+ — a snowy, low-structure month where the focus was simply getting the staple workouts done rather than chasing junk miles. HIGHLIGHTS Duration: 51:18:42 (nearly identical to December ’13) Distance: 669.55 miles Average HR: 138 bpm; TSS: 1803; Work: 9,657 kJ Bike sessions cut…
![Tri One On presented by Brickwell Cycling [June 19, 2016]](https://chanthony.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/img_2021-768x576.jpg)
At a Glance At the 20th annual Tri One On sprint in Port Washington, I raced by feel to lead most of the day — but wave starts meant the win came down to the clock, where I was edged into 2nd overall by just 7 seconds. HIGHLIGHTS Result: 2nd overall in 53:28, just 7…
At a Glance A three-day training-and-racing weekend — a hard track session, back-to-back Branchbrook Park crits, and a 3rd-overall finish in my first-ever duathlon in a frigid Central Park. HIGHLIGHTS Duathlon: 3rd overall in 1:02:36 at the Central Park duathlon — his first ever Crit: 9th of 52 in the second Branchbrook race, earning a…
At a Glance A recap of my January and February 2017 training as I built toward my first Boston Marathon, sharing four races in and around New York City — the NYRR Joe Kleinerman 10K, pacing the Fred Lebow Manhattan Half, the Gridiron 4M, and the PPTC Cherry Tree 10M — each used strategically as…
![IRONMAN 70.3 Muncie Race Report [July 8, 2017]](https://chanthony.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-07-05-10.19.23-768x576.jpg)
At a Glance My second consecutive IRONMAN 70.3 Muncie turned into a personal-best day. After storms cooled the reservoir enough to make the swim wetsuit-legal (and a near-disaster forgetting my timing chip), I rode conservatively on my favorite 70.3 bike course, then ran my fastest-ever half marathon off the bike — a 4:15 PB and…