{"id":3735,"date":"2015-08-31T13:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:54:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:54:17","slug":"for-the-love-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/for-the-love-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Silver Sage sponsored, Reno Wheelmen racer, Coby Rowe<\/p>\n<p>I decided to hire a coach for Cyclocross as I found myself loving cycling even more.<\/p>\n<p>I started working with Julie Young in late spring 2014. \u00a0I had really come to love Cyclocross and wanted to get faster to move up into Category 3 with the goal to someday compete at Nationals. \u00a0Prior to working with Julie I had been doing some crossfit and recreational riding, but nothing focused on real improvement. \u00a0My goal with Julie all along has been the 2015 cyclocross season and I have been focused on improving specific races so I can earn the much needed USA Cycling points to upgrade categories. \u00a0The training was a shock to my riding and body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/coby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3736\" src=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/coby-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"coby\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/coby-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/coby.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I registered for the Crusher on the Tushar for fun to ride with some friends and continue my training. \u00a0 After 70 miles of gravel and pavement with 11,000ft of climbing I felt surprisingly good. \u00a0 The bike fit and all the training I had been doing that was focused on the fall Cyclocross season had made the hardest ride I\u2019ve ever done, enjoyable. \u00a0 Years of recreational riding around the Reno\/Tahoe area were fun, \u00a0but had I done the Crusher without the experience and fitness I gained from training with Julie, \u00a0I would have suffered. \u00a0It was this realization after the Crusher that really changed my outlook on having a coach to help my riding!<\/p>\n<p>Equipped with the tools from Silver Sage services including physiologic testing and bike fitting, plus the \u00a0workouts that Julie Young provided for me have helped me to really enjoy riding. \u00a0It makes\u00a0 that extra 10 miles feel a ton easier. \u00a0It makes exploring gravel roads around Tahoe on your Cyclocross bike better and faster. \u00a0These benefits were never a target of mine when I started working with Julie Young but they make every pedal stroke more enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0I had really come to love Cyclocross and wanted to get faster to move up into Category 3 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}