Training Tips: Are you Overtraining for your sportive?
In search of structure, and in the absence of most other pastimes, exercise has become more prevalent in our daily routine during lockdown. And with an almighty goal like a Struggle...
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Sportive hydration tipsSportive hydration tips
Stay hydrated on sportive day with our advice from Precision Hydration. Their expert sweat test helps cyclists come up with a bespoke hydration strategy for training and during a big sportive like...
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Training Tips: Functional Fitness Gym Exercises For CyclistsTraining Tips: Functional Fitness Gym Exercises For Cyclists
With your Struggle sportive training miles beginning to ramp up, January is the perfect time to assess your functional movement to ensure you avoid injury but more importantly become an...
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Training Tips: New Year’s Resolutions for CyclistsTraining Tips: New Year’s Resolutions for Cyclists
To embark on the road to sportive readiness, pick from our top new years resolutions for cyclists and harness your willpower into becoming stronger, fitter and faster in 2020. Check...
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Eleanor Haresign: How to avoid and manage pre-sportive injuryEleanor Haresign: How to avoid and manage pre-sportive injury
Professional Ironman athlete Eleanor Haresign is no stranger to the highs and lows of cycling. Following a successful rise through the Pro Ironman ranks, Eleanor nursed mystery injuries until finally...
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Turbo Training: High-intensity intervals in an altitude chamberTurbo Training: High-intensity intervals in an altitude chamber
Zwift racing? Steady three hours (Netflix and chill)? Whatever indoor training you're doing to keep safe and sane over the icy months, make your turbo training count this winter by adding in...
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Training Tips: How to Ride Hartwith Bank cycling climbTraining Tips: How to Ride Hartwith Bank cycling climb
Struggle Dales sportive takes you off Yorkshire’s beaten track and over some of the most narrow, steep and unforgiving climbs. Here we talk you through what to expect when you tackle Hartwith Bank....
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Training Tips: How to Ride Park Rash Cycling ClimbTraining Tips: How to Ride Park Rash Cycling Climb
Park Rash comes around 50 miles into Struggle Dales, one of the toughest sportives in the UK featuring 108 miles over 7 climbs including Park Rash, Greenhow Hill, Trapping Hill...
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6 Training Tips: 2 Weeks to Go to Struggle Moors6 Training Tips: 2 Weeks to Go to Struggle Moors
With only two weeks to go until your Struggle sportive in Yorkshire - including your taper week - now is your last chance to get some extra cycling miles in the bank...
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Training Tips: The truth about tapering for a sportiveTraining Tips: The truth about tapering for a sportive
Sharpening the pencil in the lead up to a sportive allows us the best possible chance of clocking up an awesome time. But could tapering for a sportive limit our...
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Training Tips: Master a 100 Mile SportiveTraining Tips: Master a 100 Mile Sportive
With Pace - our 100 mile flat sportive - on the horizon, take a glance at our useful pre- ride and en route tips to ensure you secure a PR...
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3 Top Tips to Sportive Training Plan Success3 Top Tips to Sportive Training Plan Success
Struggle’s Coach Tom of Downing Cycling is currently assisting a huge range of riders prepare for a Struggle in 2021. Whether they’re new to cycling or extremely experienced, their training...
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Training Check-UpTraining Check-Up
With 12 weeks to go until Struggle Dales it's time to evaluate your training progress and see if you're on track to smash it. Take out check-up today then start planning your...
