Although “lactate threshold” is one of the most common buzzwords surrounding training for triathlon, many athletes don’t realize its importance in improving performance. Understanding and knowing your lactate threshold can help you get the most bang for your training buck.
THE BASICS
The What
Lactate: A chemical compound produced during processes of energy metabolism.
by Julien Pretot
PARIS, March 21 (Reuters) - Newcomers Slipstream vowed to bring a fresh breeze to the Tour de France after being invited to cycling’s greatest stage race.
Slipstream, a ProContinental team, will hit the French roads with two other second-division teams that have already competed in the Tour and 17 ProTour teams.
However, team owner Doug Ellis […]
Cycling News Flash… March 21, 2008 By Gregor Brown
The Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) has announced the 20 teams that will partake in the 2008 edition of the Tour de France, July 5 to 27. The organiser of the world’s largest cycling event confirmed its controversial decision to exclude the team of defending champion Alberto […]
Cyclists in the now defunct Team T-Mobile “probably” took doping products under the supervision of Freiburg university doctors, according to an independent report published on Thursday.
And the 23-page interim report, published by the commissioned inquiry into the doping scandal at Freiburg’s University Medical Clinic, has also named two more doctors involved in the scandal.
The report sheds light on the doping practices of Team T-Mobile — who changed their name from Team Telekom in …
From the IOC… 17 March 2008
With the health of athletes who participate in the Olympic Games being of the utmost importance to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the IOC’s Medical Commission has been appraising the air quality in the Chinese capital.
Over the past weeks, an analysis has been made of a set of data – including temperature, […]
CSC’s Fabian Cancellara held on to win the 43rd edition of the Tirreno-Adriatico following Tuesday’s seventh and final stage.
Italian Francesco Chicchi of Liquigas won the 176km run around San Benedetto del Tronto.
But the 26-year-old Swiss, the current double world time-trial champion, kept hold of the leader’s blue jersey and set himself up as one of the hot favorites for Saturday’s Milan-San Remo.
More on Pacing by Joe Friel
Since my post last month on negative splits in steady state events such as time trials and triathlons there have been a lot of questions about how the principles described there apply to courses with hills and wind. There have been several scientific studies done on this matter. Here is […]
Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) survived a flurry of attacks to win the 66th edition of Paris-Nice on Sunday after Luis-León Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne) took the slimmest of victories in the final stage around Nice.
The stage, which featured three cat. 1 climbs, was trimmed by 6.5km to 115km due to a landslide on the descent of the cat. 1 La Turbie. A small detour took the peloton to the final climb up Col d’Eze.
Riders in the Paris-Nice stage race protested Sunday against a doping test control for Belgian colleague Kevin Van Impe, who was asked for a urine sample just as he was grieving at a
crematorium following the death of his new-born son.
The protest delayed the start of the final stage of the race as Van Impe’s compatriot Philippe Gilbert, a member of the international riders association CPA, took to the rostrum to say that while the riders were not against doping tests they wanted more respect shown.
Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) seized the lead in Paris-Nice on Saturday as Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) outfought a seven-man breakaway in the final kilometer to win the sixth stage.
The 206km stage was another tough one, the longest of the race. It featured seven rated climbs, including the decisive cat. 2 Col du Tanneron with 20km to go.
