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by Joao Correia

I am happy to report that the Cervelo TestTeam has its first men’s team win of the season.

For the past ten days I have been in Majorca with Theo Bos our Dutch Sprinter training and testing some cycleops products. We were fortunate to have David Catchart from Cycleops there with us and put in a very solid ten days of training. Theo and I both use the Joule and the PowerTap for racing and training, and not being a very fast rider, it’s always humbling to compare his numbers to mine. That is nowhere more evident than on the days that we are doing sprints. You know when you are sprinting against somebody and your both neck to neck and you think, I may just have this turkey. Well with Theo and I that never really happens. He peak power is about 50% more than mine. Yeah it’s pretty humbling. But here is the good news: the guy just won Classica de Almeria beating Mark Cavendish who is the reference sprinter of the moment as many of you know.

by Abby Ruby Ph.D., Carmichael Training Systems™ Senior Coach

Some of you may have already done your goal setting for 2010, but I know many of you haven’t. This is like the prep work that you have to do before painting your kitchen. It seems tedious, especially when you’re excited to just get going, but it’s essential for achieving the results you want. And effective goal setting is more of a process than simply saying, “I want to win the Poedunk Grand Prix.” or “I want to get faster.” And filtering your list of goals can be crucial, especially for all you over-achievers out there (you know who you are). Regardless of how 2009 went, it’s time to look ahead to 2010 and it’s time to do better. Here’s how: Take out a piece of paper and start writing. 

by Joao Correia

I am happy to report that I recently completed my first stage race of the season. Although it is still mid-February the cycling season in Europe is in full swing. The Cervélo Test Team did a dual schedule of the Etoile de Besseges the race that I was part of, and we also had a men’s and women’s squad at the Tour of Qatar. The women’s team opened the team’s account by winning the Tour of Qatar with Kristen Wilde. Now the men need to catch up.

Traditionally the French races in February such as the Etoille de Besseges and the Tour of the Mediterranean were training races. Today they are full-fledged races that are hard in their own merit. For the French teams they are important races and we raced against small French pro teams that I had never heard of but who were as competitive as the Pro-Tour teams at the race.

by Nikki Butterfield

This series of articles is aimed at the ‘lifetime athlete’ which is basically someone who has trained 15 hours + a week, for at least 5 years who is coming off a long break or relatively inactive winter, looking to do an Ironman in 12 weeks. I am doing Ironman Utah on the 1st of May and started training 2 weeks ago (see the end of this article for a summary of my training over this last two weeks).

If this is the first time you have read one of my articles for a while it is probably worth skimming over ‘A Long Time Overdue’ and ‘Decision Made’ to make sense of some of the changes.