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A Carbohydrate and Protein Driven Recovery

No I am not talking about the global financial crisis.  Rather Dr Kevin Currell of Triathlon Plus has written an interesting article on the importance of carbs and protein in exercise recovery for BikeRadar.com. The full article can be found at BikeRadar.com. Dr Currell reminds us that: During exercise, carbohydrate acts as the main energy [...]

Are you a female recreational cyclist and suffer from back &/or neck pain whilst cycling?

As part of a 5th year Sports Science/Sports Management studies at ECU, with the supervision from the Perth Integrated Health Clinic (PIHC), are currently looking for participants for our ground breaking study for a new method of treatment for alleviating back & spinal pain for recreational female cyclists. Treatment is painless and non‐invasive and research [...]

Training whilst commuting …. some options for commuters

A fair bit of my weekly riding kilometres is taken up with commuting; the balance is normally a group ride or a Audax ride on the weekend, so there is little to no room for training rides to improve my riding.  Hence the recent blog posting by Neil Pedoe of Cycling Plus in BikeRadar.com caught [...]

Bike Education Course for Women – City of Stirling

The Bicycle Transport Alliance of WA (BTA) has announced on their BTA Ebulletin a bicycling education course for women, to be held from late February to the end of March, 2009. According to the BTA the course is aimed at absolute beginners and aims to establish networks of cycling women who will spread the joy [...]

Bicycling, Fitness and Health

One of my reasons for getting involved in riding was to loose weight, my Garfield. Bicycling can be good for this, along with developing a good level of fitness. The purpose of this posting is to draw together the resources out on the web that provide good advice on weight loss and riding and developing [...]