Posted on August 21, 2010 by Dave W

Whilst I have utmost respect for anyone who rides professionally or competes in any number of cycling races, whether it is a weekend sportive or a club race, I would like to see more magazine articles for the recreational rider.

Whilst I appreciate the target audience of said magazines is primarily serious cyclists, not all of us feel the need to train for a competition.

With more and more people getting on their bike for fitness, surely the editors will take note.

In my opinion, it would be nice if we could have an article that dealt with the issues us ‘real’ people have to deal with, like time constraints.

Fitting a 5 day a week training regime into a seven day week when you have a full time job, a family and whatever other things you need to attend to is not an easy task.

May I humbly suggest, that if you can manage to juggle all the above, you are either very lucky or your wife/husband/ girlfriend/boyfriend are glad to get you out of the house.

I love to read anything I can about cycling, but if I am honest I have yet to find a magazine that gives me everything I want in a training report.

Don’t get me wrong, I have found some good stuff which I have adapted to suit myself. Like recently I read an article about ‘reverse periodization’ which I thought pretty much fitted in with the way I already trained – Shorter intense workouts. (Well it’s a little more than that-another post maybe?)

But most of the things I read in cycling magazines talk about seasons, mainly off season and event/goal season.

Personally my goal is a life goal and whilst I have a 2010 goal of doing my first century, which is not going strictly according to plan, I don’t train for a particular event on a particular day, maybe I should.

But when I read things like “You should be sprinkling sprints in with all your work save for the first 2 pure blocks of the season” I tend to flip to the next article.

When I think of seasons, I think, is this winter going to be like the last, and if it is should I buy a turbo trainer or will going to the gym be enough.

One thing I could be missing here is, I haven’t read every cycling magazine ever printed so there could be one that I could read and not feel as if it is talking about someone else.

If anyone knows of such a mag, please let us know about it.

Keep Moving

Dave W

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