Don’t be afraid to take a day off. This article explains why.

This quick tip describes how to move up a bunch with no or little effort.

This article is for all you young guns out there wanting to get sponsored by a big team or bike company.

This great article about your first Criterium written by Carl Brewer from aboc Cycle Coaching. It's a great read and republished here.  Carl runs a very successful coaching service and can be contacted on 0419 966 003 between 8am and 10pm any day of via e-mail at coach@aboc.com.au. We appreciate Carl for allowing us to republish his article on our site.

Even though the the peloton is riding at a very steady speed, the distance between riders is constantly changing.  This tip describes how to move through a a tight pack during races.

You’ve probably been in a situation where some shifty bugger keeps stealing the wheel you were sitting comfortably behind. As this happens again and again the next thing you know you’re at the back of the bunch.

Depending on the mood of the peloton, sometimes races can be extremely negative.  What I mean by "negative" is that every time someone attacks and attempts to create a break-away it gets chased it down.  Sometimes this can be a very intentional team strategy for those who want the race to come down to a field sprint.  Or it can also be a result of too many people in the peloton being nervous and excited where every time a rider goes up the road, someone tries to go with him and ends up dragging the whole pack up to that rider.  If you have some nasty crosswinds at your disposal, there is one way to split up the group so that you can get rid of those riders just sitting on.  Throw it in the gutter!

In this article Brian writes about building base and while I agree with Brian that base building is very important to endurance athletes like Roadies. It's important to remember that the amount of base training and the weeks that you do it for relate very closely to the events that you are training for.

I'm a strong advocate of building strength before speed for many reasons and apply it to my coaching programs all the time. While most cyclists will have built enough endurance base after three years of riding and can then start focusing on their speed. This article, written by Brian Grasky, discusses developing power on the bike from the triathlete's perspective. It caught my eye as much of what he writes about here are similar to the methods that we use in our coaching programs for building power on the bike.

Found this great list for newcomers to cycling racing and thought I would publish it here.