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If I'm So Fit Why Am I Sick?
Friday, May 02, 2003  6:11:00 AM PT
  You’re probably into cycling because you enjoy being fit and healthy. So why is it that you’re always sniffling around with a cold bumming a Kleenex off your friends and doing a “Godfather” impersonation with a raspy sore throat? Sport science guru Dr. Stephen Cheung gives us the cold facts on fitness and immunity and what we can do to stay out of sick bay and on the bike…
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Toolbox: Planning to Recover
Friday, April 25, 2003  9:14:00 AM PT
  Now that he’s hopefully finally finished digging out from the prolonged winter in eastern Canada, our resident sport science guru has been equally busy digging out from under the avalanche of training and sport science questions from our readers. This week, our mailbag discusses the merits of a complete day off the bike each week…
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Bike Fitting: New Bike - Same Feel
Wednesday, April 23, 2003  4:51:00 AM PT
  You finally decide on that new bike. You can’t wait to assemble it and take it for its maiden voyage. There's one thing in the back of your mind that's nagging you, and that is matching the measurements from your current machine, where you’ve had no problems, over to the new bike...
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Experience: Lessons From Redlands
Tuesday, April 15, 2003  8:42:00 AM PT
  A really smart guy once said "Experience is another way of describing your mistakes" and I couldn't agree more -- in life AND in cycling. One of the best things about the sport of road cycling is that it is a cerebral sport. Success comes from not only using your legs but also from using your brain...
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Real Rider Part 3: JC Hung By Heels
Friday, April 11, 2003  7:31:00 AM PT
  You may have been wondering what has been happening with our real rider John Crowley lately. Well, he’s been busy emulating the Euro-pros and coming up with injuries all spring, and sport science guru Stephen Cheung talks us through JC’s various crises…
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The Art Of Climbing
Friday, April 04, 2003  9:04:00 AM PT
  By far the most popular request we get at the training camps is athletes wanting to improve their climbing ability. This is probably the single most difficult and painful aspect of the sport, but doesn't have to be...
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Feel The Burn: Just What Is Lactate Threshold?
Wednesday, March 26, 2003  11:02:00 AM PT
  If there is one stat that every cyclist wants to know, it's their “VO2max.” Just what does this secret number mean? And more importantly, why is it a pretty near meaningless red herring, and what number do you really want to know? PCN sport scientist Stephen Cheung gives us a primer on the lactate threshold and how to use it to plan your training…
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Crank Lengths: Secrets Revealed
Friday, March 21, 2003  9:48:00 AM PT
  One of the most confusing aspects to finding the perfect bike set-up is determining the right crank length. If there was ever was an inexact science, this is it. We’ve had our best tech guys working round the clock for the past few weeks to help make sense confusing but critical issue, and here’s what we can tell you…
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Rest Days: You Snooze You Lose?
Tuesday, March 18, 2003  8:34:00 AM PT
  Now that racing has begun or is about to begin its time to go fast. You've lifted weights this winter, suffered through the horrible winter to put in your base miles, watched Tour de France re-runs in the basement on your trainer, and you've done countless intervals in Zone 5. What's next? How about a rest day!
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Low Intensity: Big Gains
Friday, March 14, 2003  7:15:00 AM PT
  It seems that our ToolBox feature is becoming more popular than the Psychic Hotline as a source of training advice, with our mailbag getting flooded with questions and comments for our sport scientist Stephen Cheung. One recurring question is the importance of low intensity training…
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Spin Vs Push: Interval Physiology 101
Tuesday, March 11, 2003  8:31:00 AM PT
  We’ve been posting a number of articles discussing the use of power devices and the proper way to perform intervals. I have also been receiving a number of questions from you concerning the physiology behind intervals, so it seems like a good time to lay down some basic fundamentals before the season really kicks into full swing.
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Slim Fast For Racers
Tuesday, March 04, 2003  4:31:00 AM PT
  One of the most popular requests that I get from cyclists is: "I'd like to lose some weight". And of course, I am happy to help; I've done it myself. To start with there are several simple dietary suggestions that I'd like to make before plunging into a caloric deficit.
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“Being John Crowley” Part 2: Get Back To Basics
Monday, February 24, 2003  11:03:00 AM PT
  Welcome back to the latest installment of “Being John Crowley,” (you can insert your own name here) the game we can all play at home as we build a trainig program for a real rdier with a real life. When we last left our hero…
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Intervals: Size Does Matter
Wednesday, February 19, 2003  9:11:00 AM PT
  At this time of year just about everybody in the US is chomping at the bit to start racing. After reading about Danielson in Langkawi, the Tour of the Med, and in the US –the Valley of the Sun, I know I am. So you’ve put in your winter training, laid down a good base, and now it’s time to “release the hounds” (insert Mr. Burn’s voice from the TV show The Simpsons).
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Stretching For Cyclists
Wednesday, February 12, 2003  9:54:00 AM PT
  I find it ironic that I am writing an article about stretching and its benefits to cyclists, but not because I don’t feel stretching is beneficial.  Through my athletic career, I have always known the benefits of a good stretching routine.  What is odd is
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New Feature: Training For Real Riders
Monday, February 10, 2003  4:41:00 PM PT
  Today starts the first of a season long series of training and fitness coaching articles, designed for "real riders". We're talking about guys and girls with real jobs, families and lives that dictate when and how much you can train, ride, and race. We're probably talking about you...! We've selected a real life lab rat and Cat. 1 racer, named John Crowley, who will collaborate with our own expert in sporting science and real life Physiology PHD Stephen Cheung, to design a customized training program to illustrate how training theory can be applied to individual cyclists within the constraints of a full time job and other real life commitments.. Today, we begin with the basics: cycling goals and training history…
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Beware! The Training "Race"
Monday, February 03, 2003  9:21:00 AM PT
  For many cyclists around the country, group rides are the weekend ritual and a great way to gather the motivation to suffer outside in the freezing cold, get in some base miles, and visit with teammates and racing buddies. Unfortunately, when you get together a bunch of motivated racers to ride...
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Pedalling Efficiency: You Vs. Olano
Tuesday, January 28, 2003  8:55:00 AM PT
  Every off-season, cycling magazines fill their pages with articles on indoor workouts. Two workouts that you’re guaranteed to find in every one of these are one-legged cycling and also high-cadence spinning intervals, both designed to improve your pedaling stroke and efficiency.
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Sugar Rushes, Insulin Spikes And Lopping Around The House
Tuesday, January 21, 2003  8:36:00 AM PT
  This week's Toolbox opens on a topic you may have learned about in grade school science, but until you became a fitness-seeking cyclist, never really paid much attention to... Mike Carter examines how specific foods work to mobilize, or inhibit the benefits of eating other foods - get it? Better read-on...
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Indoor Test Lab At Home
Tuesday, January 14, 2003  9:00:00 AM PT
  The off-season is great for cross-training and all, but your first passion is the bike, and indoor cycling can easily drive even the most hardcore of us to desperation.
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Appreciation Rediscovered
Thursday, January 09, 2003  11:19:00 AM PT
  Having a unique experience like a truly "white" Christmas can serve as training inspiration in the most unexpected ways, as California resident Bruce Hendler discovered...
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Smart Training for the New Season
Sunday, December 22, 2002  12:41:00 PM PT
  Christmas is fast approaching, and most of us are probably hoping (or actively hinting to Santa, family and friends) that the latest techno gadget will be waiting for us underneath the tree on Christmas Day. But is that gold-plated Giant going to propel you to the top of the podium?
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Resistance Training: Does it Really Work for Road Cycling?
Sunday, December 08, 2002  9:25:00 AM PT
  This week's Tool Box takes a look at how weight training can be a good part of a balanced cycling fitness program. Read on and learn the secrets of how resistance training can really "pump you uuup"...
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Smooth Moves - Pedalmeister!
Thursday, December 05, 2002  8:16:00 AM PT
  Believe it or not, pedaling a bicycle is a learned “habit”. Most people think you get on a bike and the pedaling motion basically takes care of itself. Well, yes and no...
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Good Manners: Training Camp Ride Etiquette
Tuesday, November 19, 2002  3:46:00 PM PT
  You have been pouring your blood sweat and tears into training, and feel like you are missing something. You just don’t seem to be making the progress you want.
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PEZ Report: The BMC Camp!
Wednesday, February 03, 2010  1:43:25 AM PT
  I’m just digging out from a few days at the BMC training camp, and while I won’t be reporting on doing Jaeger-bombs and Redbulls with Cadel & George, ...
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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad: What’s In a Name?
Wednesday, February 03, 2010  1:42:26 AM PT
  When the now defunct Belgian newspaper Het Volk first organized Omloop Het Volk in 1945 to capitalize on the growing popularity of bicycling racing ...
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Best Of PEZ '09: The Chris King Gourmet Century
Friday, January 29, 2010  11:32:43 AM PT
  When you get an invite from the nation’s premier component maker to join a metric century in wine country that is fully catered, you grab the clean ...
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PEZ Previews: The Berlin Six Day
Thursday, January 28, 2010  5:20:47 PM PT
  Six Day racing comes to Berlin for the 99th time on Thursday, 28th January, 2010 with the great tradition of winter track racing in Germany in a ...
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TDU'10 St.6: Sutton The Day, Greipel The Tour
Friday, January 22, 2010  12:10:11 PM PT
  One more day, one more sprint! Sky had the goods to finish the week Down Under the same way they started: 1-2. The rest of the favorites were hot on ...
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PEZ-Tech: American Classic's Aero 420 3
  American Classic spent the last couple of years reworking their line up and the 420 Aeros are the latest to leave the bench. Take a look at the new ...
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Best Of PEZ '09: Serotta’s Meivici Custom Carbon
  A couple years in the making, Pez head up to see arguably the top custom builder on the planet. We hit Serotta's NY shop, take a peek at their ...
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PEZ Holiday Wish List #4
  You’ve still got today and all of tomorrow to ‘git ‘er done! Your holiday shopping that is… and armed with the complete set of 4 gift guides ...
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PEZ Holiday Wish List #3
  If the stocking's not full - somebody's not doing their job. Good thing we're here to help with a big ol' bag full of the kind of stuff we'd love to ...
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PEZ-Tech: Kurt Kinetic Power Computer
  Winter riding is almost upon us - except for you lucky Aussies - and that means less riding outdoors. But with an indoor trainer and a Netflix ...
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Toolbox: Crank Down the Pain
  Many ergogenic aids, both legal and illegal, have been touted as the magic bullet that will improve cycling performance. What about something that ...
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ErgVideo: Spring Training in Mallorca, Pt.II
  In our last article on filming the “Spring Training In ...
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Toolbox: Announce Your Destiny!
  Having goals is one of the important first steps in achieving your dreams. They can be small goals or they can be big goals, but without them you’ll ...
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Toolbox: Higher Power?
  Is cycling your religion, or at least one of them? If so, you’re not alone. Many people define themselves as “spiritual,” even if they don’t practice ...
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Giro Di PEZ: The Race Of The Lasts
Sunday, June 07, 2009  7:50:39 AM PT
  Post-Giro Roadside: This year I chased just three stages. I chose the three stages closest to home for me, in the centre of Italy, on the ...
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Giro Di PEZ: Ed And Dave Look Back
Friday, June 05, 2009  5:05:48 AM PT
  Post-Giro Roadside: I love Scotland; but there’s no Gazzetta in the morning, most of the coffee tastes like John Wayne brewed it beside the ...
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2009 Tour de France
Tour de France Through The Decades: The 70's!
Sunday, November 22, 2009  9:45:05 AM PT
  Sunday July 20th 1969; that’s 40 years ago now but I remember it clearly as the day that I first became aware of professional bicycle racing – I was ...
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Tour de Pez: Looking Back At A Tour Gone By
Friday, July 31, 2009  5:32:12 AM PT
  Roadside Recap: As we make our merry way through the rounds of the PEZ Looks Back, Ed is up for his retrospective on the Tour that was. As the ...
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PEZ-Clusive: Saul Raisin, Still Raisin Hope
  Coming on four years ago, Saul Raisin was one of THE big things in US pro cycling. Top 40 in a hard Tour de Suisse and mountain king at the Tour de ...
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PEZ Talk: Garmin-Transitions' Steven Cozza
  The last time we spoke to Garmin's Steve Cozza was after the 2008 Paris - Tours; where he produced another solid performance from a consistent and ...
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PEZ Talk: Cervelo's Dan Lloyd, Ready For 2010
  Just about to start his second season with Cervélo - thanks to strong Classic rides and his first Grand Tour finish, in the Giro - Englishman, Dan ...
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PEZ Talk: Kenda Pro Cycling's Frankie Andreu
  In October, nine-time Tour de France rider Frankie Andreu announced that he would be Director Sportif of the Ohio-based KENDA Pro Cycling p/b ...
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Looking Ahead 2010: Cyclevox Prognosticates
  With so many (too many?) others looking back to best-of-2009 or decade highlights, why not look ahead? A new decade beckons, after all, so who better ...
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Cycling Tours
Travel: Meet Lostende Tours
Wednesday, January 20, 2010  9:12:43 AM PT
  We first talked with Lostende Bike Tours owner and avid cyclist Allan Reeves about his Pyrenees Cycling Challenge, from the Atlantic to the ...
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Top Rides: The Tour Das Hugel
Friday, December 04, 2009  12:24:15 PM PT
  So, riding in Texas is mostly flat, with only tumbleweeds and armadillos to avoid right? Well, not exactly. You see, Austin is situated in what’s ...
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PEZ Report: The BMC Camp!
Wednesday, February 03, 2010  1:43:25 AM PT
  I’m just digging out from a few days at the BMC training camp, and while I won’t be reporting on doing Jaeger-bombs and Redbulls with Cadel & George, ...
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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad: What’s In a Name?
Wednesday, February 03, 2010  1:42:26 AM PT
  When the now defunct Belgian newspaper Het Volk first organized Omloop Het Volk in 1945 to capitalize on the growing popularity of bicycling racing ...
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Best Of PEZ '09: The Chris King Gourmet Century
Friday, January 29, 2010  11:32:43 AM PT
  When you get an invite from the nation’s premier component maker to join a metric century in wine country that is fully catered, you grab the clean ...
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2009 Tour de France
Vuelta’09 St.21: Greipel’s Day, Valverde’s Vuelta!
Sunday, September 20, 2009  10:58:34 AM PT
  Race report: Alejandro Valverde stayed upright to seal his Vuelta victory – the first Grand Tour win of his career. On such a short stage, ...
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Vuelta’09 St.20: Millar Puts Them To The Sword!
Saturday, September 19, 2009  10:56:52 AM PT
  Race Report: Today David Millar won his 5th stage in all his Vuelta’s, he was given one of the swords that Toledo is famous for along with the ...
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EuroTrash Monday!
Monday, February 08, 2010  1:35:14 PM PT
  Updated! Hallelujah, they're racing in Qatar, and I just got back from celebrating with every other New Orleanian on Bourbon Street. There's ...
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Rest In Peace: Franco Ballerini
Monday, February 08, 2010  2:07:33 AM PT
  It was a dark Sunday morning in Italy when the news services announced that Franco Ballerini, ex-professional, former dual Paris-Roubaix winner and ...
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Copenhagen Six: The View From Inside
Sunday, February 07, 2010  9:53:42 AM PT
  The maracas shake, 'Cara mia, mine !' blasts from the PA. Bang! The little cannon fires and the hall fills with smoke. Yes, this is the right place, ...
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Best Of PEZ '09: Take Me Home, Country Roads
Sunday, February 07, 2010  9:49:51 AM PT
  When the K-Mart Classic of West Virginia stormed through the state in the mid-90s, it opened awareness as to just how great the bike riding is in ...
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Best Of PEZ '09: Hello Stranger!
Friday, February 05, 2010  11:30:32 AM PT
  Roadside St. 14 When you start each new Giro you understand you’re a year older. You feel a stranger to the village approach and for a moment ...
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Berlin Six Wrap: Danes Time It To Perfection
Friday, February 05, 2010  10:43:21 AM PT
  As the final Madison got underway the arena was packed to the rafters, all the talk of Six Days in crisis forgotten for now. The finale was ...
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PEZ Review: CycleFilm's Come Ride With Me
Friday, February 05, 2010  9:57:41 AM PT
  Professional cycling has, over the years, attracted only a few documentary film makers. A few, such as Jorgen Leth’s “A Sunday in Hell,” have even ...
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