Sunday Group Ride - A Weekly Digest

Here's your Sunday Group Ride Weekly Digest for the past few weeks. My regular writing has been interrupted a bit by some training courses I've been taking. But here's a compendium of everything that has popped up on the blog since the last Sunday Ride...

If anything really got you thinking, by all means leave us a comment!


Here's this week's digest:

The Christmas Season began with And A Festivus For The Cyclists! All the Seinfeld fans out there will know where this one came from...

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And some readers had a chance to enjoy a little cheer on Christmas Day when I posted Wishing You A Big Red Bicycle Christmas.

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I found a number of reasons why us cyclists - and athletes in general - should consider supplementing with Vitamin C. There appear to be some performance enhancing benefits that we shouldn't be missing... And it's all legal! The Benefits of Vitamin C for Cyclists

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I'm always looking for opportunities to give back to the cycling community. Sometimes it's helping my cycling club or my friends down at the velodrome. For Christmas, I like to find a cycling-related charity to help out. This year World Bicycling Relief Gets The Donation.

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Sometimes we can get way too far ahead of ourselves when we plan out our training. It doesn't always need to be that way. As you get ready to go in 2013, please consider A Simple Plan For Your Cycling Goals.

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And while you train hard and train easy, it is important to understand how your muscles are producing your power, and how they consume energy. Understanding your Power Pyramid will help create a memorable model for you.

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As winter seems to drag on... and on... and on... we can get a little down on ourselves when we're really looking forward to getting outdoors to ride. If you need a little inspiration to keep going, see: Feeling The Fitness Monday Blues?

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Finally, I thought it would be good for our community of cyclists if I keep my eyes open for product recalls. We all should be aware if our cycling components are safe and reliable. I'll be watching for cycling-related product recalls on a monthly basis, because frankly company announcements can get lost in the noise of life. Please review these 4 that I found - to make sure they don't affect you, but if they do...

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Health Tip Of The Week:

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. - Spanish proverb

Sunday Group Ride - A Weekly Digest

Here's your Sunday Group Ride Weekly Digest for the week of December 17, 2012.

If anything really got you thinking, by all means leave us a comment!


Here's this week's digest:

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Small conversations that lead to big ideas, that lead to really big things! The Tour of Alberta begins in 2013...

UCI ProTeam Cycling Comes To Alberta

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This past Thursday was National Regifting Day. See how we intend to celebrate it this year. I need your vote!

Giving Back To Our World Community

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I hope everyone had a chance to participate in Global Interval Day. If not, you can still get ready for next year...

Global Interval Day

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How should you spend your time and resources to get faster? The answer is simple: train on a regular basis. But the execution can be difficult. To get yourself started on the right road to success this season, check out this archive of training resources. It contains both paid and free content, all of which will get you riding faster in 2013!

Click Here!

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Health Tip Of The Week:

The more fruits and vegetables a man eats, the less likely he is to have the type of prostate cancer that kills (Prostate Cancer, published online December 2012).

Sunday Group Ride - A Weekly Digest

The Sunday Group Ride is a cycling tradition when you get together with your club or just a group of riding buddies. As much as it's a fitness event, it's also a good social time to catch up with your friends.

Well here on Bicycling Blogger we obviously can't ride together, but I can give you a digest of this week's blog posts so you can either catch up if you've missed something or simply want to revisit a post. And if anything really got you thinking, by all means leave us a comment!


Here's this week's digest:

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I throw a few performance-enhancing jabs at Santa in this post, while I outline a few gift ideas for yourself and the cyclists you're shopping for this holiday season.

2012 - Santa, I've Been Good...

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Ryder Hesjedal gotten beaten on the line in this Year's CBC Athlete of the Year Poll.

Results of the CBC Athlete Of The Year Poll

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Did you know that one of the easiest ways to ride faster is to weigh less? One approach is to buy a super-light-weight bike and all sorts of super-light-weight components. But that's an expensive approach, and it really won't buy you very much if you've got 10+ lbs to lose. This article gives you 5 unique solutions to your fat loss problems. They are something you should consider this off-season, that will not only help you lean-up for next year's riding season, but will help you look TEN years younger too...plenty of interesting facts that you have probably never heard of before.

Click Here!

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Health Tip Of The Week:

Balance and agility decline with age. A simple balancing exercise is to stand on one foot while brushing your teeth.

Sunday Group Ride - A Weekly Digest

The Sunday Group Ride is a cycling tradition when you get together with your club or just a group of riding buddies. As much as it's a fitness event, it's also a good social time to catch up with your friends.

Well here on Bicycling Blogger we obviously can't ride together, but I can give you a digest of this week's blog posts so you can catch up if you've missed something or simply want to revisit a post. And if anything really got you thinking, by all means leave us a comment!


Here's this week's digest:

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In Part 2 of the story about me and my ICD the assimilation is complete: Bicycling Blogger Restarts With An ICD: Part 2

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Every good training plan needs goals. But before you start setting goals for next season, check your rear-view mirror and look back at this season. What have your learned? 5 Questions To Evaluate Your Season

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The Change Cycling Now group concluded last weekend's summit by drafting a Charter-of-the-Willing and proposed 3 goals to rehabilitate professional cycling: Change Cycling Now Drafts 3 Goals

Sunday Group Ride - A Weekly Digest

The Sunday Group Ride is a cycling tradition when you get together with your club or just a group of riding buddies. As much as it's a fitness event, it's also a good social time to catch up with your friends.

Well here on Bicycling Blogger we obviously can't ride together, but I can give you a digest of this weeks blog posts so you can catch up if you've missed something or simply want to revisit a post. And if anything really got you thinking, by all means leave us a comment!


Here's this week's digest:

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After 3 years of virtual silence, Bicycling Blogger gets going again with Part 1 of the story about my ICD: Bicycling Blogger Restarts With An ICD - Part 1

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Let the brainstorming begin! A summit is convened in London to begin the process of coming up with ideas to clean up cycling's doping scandals: Change Cycling Now

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is holding an online poll to name Canada's 2012 Athlete of the Year. Of course Ryder Hesjedal Has To Be Athlete Of The Year!