Struggle — training tips

Training Tips: Master a 100 Mile Sportive

Training 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 over 100 miles.

Training Tips: Cyclists Guide to Caffeine

Training Tips: Cyclists Guide to Caffeine

It wasn’t long ago caffeine appeared on the WADA banned substances list, which says something for its widely acknowledged performance enhancing capabilities.

Thankfully our favourite morning brew is now legal once again. Caffeine is now widely used among professional and amateur athletes in many sports but is most commonly consumed among endurance cyclists world over.  


Training Tips: Are you Overtraining for your sportive?

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 on the horizon (12 weeks to go), why not throw yourself into your training?

3 Top Tips to Sportive Training Plan Success

3 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 is carefully considered, specifically structured and highly personalised.


Training Check-Up

Training 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 training for the next 12 weeks.