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6 Training Tip: 2 Weeks to Go to Struggle Dales

6 Training Tip: 2 Weeks to Go to Struggle Dales

With only two weeks to go until your sportive - including your taper week - now is your last chance to get some extra training miles in the bank while also ensuring all your kit and equipment is road-ready. Here's what you should be thinking about this week... 

training tips for sportives in Yorkshire

1. Last Long Ride

This is your last chance to maximise the miles before starting your taper. However, a ride that's too far and too hard may take your body too long to recover from. Plan...


Training Tips: 5 Best Sportive Training Ideas For Icy Days

Training Tips: 5 Best Sportive Training Ideas For Icy Days

With icy conditions forecast over the weekend, stay safe by maxing out indoor training sessions. Here’s our top tips to train for a Struggle sportive on an icy day.  

Malham Cove on Struggle Dales Yorkshire Sportive

1. Take a Test

It may not be a four-hour ride but we promise you an FTP test (Functional Threshold Power) will leave you lying on the sofa for the rest of the afternoon.

Now is an ideal time to carry out an FTP test; benchmarking your fitness at the start...


Struggle X Brownlee Fitness Sportive Training Plan

Struggle X Brownlee Fitness Sportive Training Plan

We're excited to be working with Brownlee Fitness to offer you this exclusive sportive training plan. For just £35 per month you'll receive an online sportive training plan by your own cycling coach, designed to get you fit for the sportive season.

Training Tips: Strength Training Plan For Cyclists

Training Tips: Strength Training Plan For Cyclists

Ask old pros and the purist of roadies how to become a better cyclists and they’ll tell you to “ride your bike!” But pick apart the training plans of new kids climbing the pro ranks and you’ll find there’s more power behind podium performances than pure peddling. Strength Coach to the Pros, Chris Peden, shows us how...

Training Tips: How to improve your cycling cadence

Training Tips: How to improve your cycling cadence

Winter is the perfect time of year to focus your training on improving technique and iron out any bad habits. Team Struggle shares their top turbo session to help improve your leg cadence.    

How to improve your cadence

Up your Revs

Speeding up your leg cadence will help lower fatigue levels during those long hours of Struggle training and ensure that on Struggle Dales you’ll hit those last climbs with looser legs.

Struggle's Matt said: "As a racing cyclist it's important for me to keep my legs as fresh as possible, especially throughout longer...