A blog I thoroughly enjoy called the Cozy Beehive wrote a post last week about an electrolyte formula that NASA uses to hydrate it’s astronauts when returning to Earth. It’s common for astronauts to return in a very dehydrated state because of the effects of weightlessness in space. Leave it to NASA to spend 15 [...]
My odometer from last year’s Melbourne to Warrnambool
The Melbourne to Warrnambool (or “The Warny”) is one of my favorite races in Australia and tomorrow it’s showtime! It’s a good thing that this blog also serves as my daily diary or else I might forget some of the stupid things I announce from time to time. [...]
Let me try this again. My last guest post that I took down was a bit of a learning experience but as one commenter stated “I’d hate to see you holding back posts because you think they might be ill received by some”. This is definitely something I’m cognizant of and I don’t want to [...]
Quite often I get the question “what should I eat before a race?” in my inbox. This used to be one of my biggest questions as well. This is a reminder of how confusing the topic of nutrition can be and I’m guessing that many more people have the same question. I’m not a nutritionist, [...]
After all the hard work you’ve put into training, the last thing you want to do is to sabotage it by making poor food choices leading up to race day. The most important part of your final preparation before a big race is making sure you’re fueled properly in the days and hours before the [...]
I’ve been fighting off a cold all week and I’m out of my usual magic potion. I swear by this stuff that I get sent to me from Canada called ColdFX. I hardly ever get sick if I start taking this stuff as soon as I feel a cold coming on. It’s basically pharmaceutical grade [...]
The Biggest Loser has now come to an end. Everyone did amazingly well over the past 8 weeks and I thank each and every one of these masochistic cyclists for participating.
Some interesting points from the past 8 weeks:
Over 200,000 views of The Biggest Loser updates, photos and confessions. Over a million hits in total. It [...]
I’m so glad this competition is almost over. I’ve suffered and starved myself for 8 weeks now and haven’t lost a pound. Our final weigh-out is taking place next week and this is a long weekend coming up. I think there’s going to be a lot of people putting in 1000kms over the next [...]
Magnesium, the promised elixir?
Last week I asked Dr. Sipser about what all the hype was about Magnesium in all these sports drinks. Will it make me faster? Is this the magic pill I’ve been searching for? Judging by its entertainment value it had in high school chemistry I just had to find out more [...]
In the last couple of years there’s been a number of sports drinks that have been marketing the benefits of Magnesium. I’ve understood the basics of the more common electrolytes found in these drinks, but wanted to know what this new Magnesium craze was all about. Well, I didn’t have to go much further than [...]
