Contributed by Silver Sage sponsored Reno WheelWoman, Hanging-in-there-tough-Heidi Littenberg USA Cycling Masters National Championships, held September 9th through the 12th, marked the end of my 2015 racing season. The dates have been circled on my calendar since exactly one year ago. In 2014, I registered, but couldn’t attend because I was sitting behind a computer […]
Below Trixie Bradley, dedicated and talented o2fitness- athlete shares her fist foray in to the road racing scene.. It was an early morning as I ventured my way to Winter’s to take place in my FIRST official road race. My husband was working so I dropped the kids off at grandmas and was off on […]
Contributed by Silver Sage sponsored, Reno Wheelmen racer, Coby Rowe I decided to hire a coach for Cyclocross as I found myself loving cycling even more. I started working with Julie Young in late spring 2014. I had really come to love Cyclocross and wanted to get faster to move up into Category 3 with […]
By Julie Young, Director, Silver Sage Sports and Fitness Lab The Journal Jog is steeped in heritage; in fact, this year’s event is the 47th annual edition, and it is Reno’s oldest footrace. So many of you may be approaching this event as seasoned, experienced runners planning to improve performance (and stay injury-free, of course) […]
By Julie Young, Director, Silver Sage Sports and Fitness Lab The Journal Jog is widely known as a great first 8K for new runners. I mean, any race that features a division for pushing strollers and “caterpillars” — and of course, that encourages costumes — is probably a family-friendly, mostly low intensity event. But many […]
This year, I joined two of my longtime athletes, and good friends, Sian and Andy at the Leadville 100-mile Mountain Bike Race. My Leadville-rasion d’etre was not in pursuit of individual results but rather a fully focused commitment to ride alongside, pace and support Sian and Andy. The goal – completing the 100-plus miles in […]
By Julie Young Preface: Fitting road, cyclo-cross and mountain bikes follows a similar formula; TT and Triathlon bikes depart from this formula. For this article, we will focus on the road bike. I enjoy the bike fitting process because it’s not only an opportunity to help educate athletes about the importance of fit in terms […]
Contributed by Silver Sage Sports and Fitness Lab sponsored, Reno Tahoe Junior Cycling Team member, Drew Swall. For the Reno Tahoe Junior Cycling team, the entire season has been building to this race. The National Championships. Taking place in Mammoth, California, Nationals was big. Not “Sea Otter big”, but big in importance. Sea Otter was big in […]
Contributed by physically and mentally gritty Silver Sage athlete, Laurie Marlowe, who committed, invested and diligently trained to tap and realize her potential at the Death Ride… One cold evening last December as I sat in front of my laptop, my thoughts turned to the Death Ride. It’s been remotely in my radar for a […]
**Disclaimer – this blog post was mentally crafted during a cyclo-cross sprint training session, so excuse its seeming edgy-aggressive tone. So last year at this time I was in the throes of a torn MCL, ACL and meniscus – the result of a series of events – a couple of encounters with enthusiastic dogs, and […]
