Greetings!
This month's newsletter is packed with articles and tips you can use in your training and in your everyday approach to life's challenges. In fact, there's so much here that we're skipping the intro so you can get right to it all. Enjoy your training and events this month, and to those in the Northern States: "Hang in there! The crazy winter weather will soon be over!"
~ Kendra Wenzel, Scott Saifer, and the Staff of Wenzel Coaching
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 Q. How can I get out of my chronic pattern of a chaotic eating schedule? I never seem to have the time to eat breakfast at home, let alone pack a lunch for work. By the time I get home after training I'm so tired I don't want to cook, so I end up ordering take-out or having a bowl of cereal for dinner. Do you have any quick tips that can help me out of this rut?
A. You are describing a common problem that many people are dealing with today. Priorities for most athletes tend to look like this: work, training/competing, and being with family and friends. With our schedules jam-packed it's no wonder that it's hard to find time to eat well, let alone cook for ourselves. If this sounds like you, read on for some inspiration.
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Training Tip of the Month: Quality Trumps Quantity
Training done when you are feeling good and making good speed or power
for your effort is most productive. Training done when you are already
tired and going slowly or making poor power compared to the effort is
worse than a waste of time. It is counterproductive in that it keeps
you tired for another day as well as not giving much training benefit
for that day. Anytime you are tired on a training day,
do your warm up. If you start to feel better and really cruise, do your
scheduled training. If not, turn it into a recovery ride for the full
scheduled training time. If you are so tired that even your recovery
zone feels like a chore to maintain, go home, rest and call your coach.
A major difference between successful racers and those stuck
perennially in the beginner categories is a level of body-awareness and
willingness to back off when feeling other than good.
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New Coach Profile: Mike Henderson of San Diego, CA
 Wenzel Coaching would like to welcome new Coach Mike Henderson of San Diego, CA. Over the years Mike has assisted hundreds of recreational athletes in meeting their goals. As a cancer survivor, he has also worked with the Leukemia Society Team in Training and completed 13 of their programs. Mike currently coaches the Trek Century Training Program which assists people in training for the San Diego Century and Tour de Poway. In addition to coaching athletes for centuries, Mike is also available for beginning road cycling and general fitness.
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Quote of the Month
"There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have
no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own
hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that."
~Eddie Merckx, Five-time Tour de France Winner
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Resource of the Month: Cycling Quotient
 The spring classics are here: Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-San Remo and so on. Now you can follow all the action and check out all the rider rankings at Cycling Quotient. Search for riders, results, teams and races for the top male and female cyclists. You can even compare top sprinters and climbers to eachother.
Check it Out>>>
The
websites found in the "Resource of the Month" are in no way associated
with Wenzel Coaching and we are not responsible for any information
they contain.
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 Many athletes tend follow the herd. It is easy to get caught up in "doing what everyone else is doing" without really thinking about what we can do to maximize our success and enjoyment. We tend to follow unwritten rules of how we should focus our racing and training efforts usually dictated by what others in our area are doing. We'll approach every event with the same intensity and desire to perform without considering how the event suits us. If your racing and training has you feeling like you are constantly paddling upstream against a strong current, it may be time to change your approach and find your own path. Taking a look at certain aspects of who you are and what you are doing may help you determine where to best focus your racing and training energy.
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Featured Article: Motivation in a Down Economy
by Coach Landi Saifer
We've all been impacted by it, in one way or another; whether personally, professionally or financially every one of us has been hit in some way by the global downturn in the economy. We're dealing with less money in our retirement accounts, reduced services, and even job losses among our friends or family. None of these is a trigger that is likely to lead to an increase in what Americans are best known for: our gumption, our get-up-and-go attitude and our commitment to giving it our all to reach that stretch goal even in hard times.
So, how do we stay (or even get?) motivated in a down economy? How do we make lemonade when given lemons? Let's review some Motivation Theory, and as a coach, I will try to help you apply it in a way that will not only help you stay motivated in a down economy, but find the opportunities and take advantage of what is available instead of dwelling on what is not.
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Client Successes
Mac Carey takes 1st at the Menlo Park GP and 2nd at the Pine Flat RR, Master Men 55+
Mike Gaertner takes 2nd at the Leprechaun Scurry
5k
Coach Ron Castia takes 2nd place at the Berkerley Hills Team Time Trial, Tandem Division
Tim Butler takes 2nd and 3rd at the Banana Belt Series #1 and #3, Men 40+
Sue Butler takes 3rd at the Banana Belt Series #3, Women 1/2/3
Susie Schultz takes 3rd at Devil's Revenge
Off-Road Duathlon, Women 40-49
Ivan Anderholm is selected to the GT Dirt Coalition Team
Beate Heckner and the Early Bird Women's Development team take their first podium at the Menlo Park Grand Prix, Women Cat 4
Scott Cole takes 3rd at the Early Bird RR and the Merco RR, Master 35+ Men 1/2/3
David Puglia upgrades to Cat 3 on the road and Cat 2 on the MTB
Scott Garrison loses 13 pounds in five weeks John Bartucz took 26 minutes off of his 2008 time at the 2009 American Birkebeiner
Missing your results?
We do our best to publish all the results we receive, but if we don't know what you did, we can't tell the world about it. Did you have any results in 2008 that we didn't publish already? If so, please send them to newsletter@WenzelCoaching.com. We publish top-3 in any event, completion of endurance events, top-5 in national events, any substantial goal reached (weight lost, training pace increased, personal best for a course...) |
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Wenzel Coaching sponsors the Mt Hood Cycling Classic and Tour de Hood ride
 Wenzel Coaching will again sponsor the challenging Tour de Hood ride June 6-7, 2009 in the Mt Hood and Columbia River Gorge area. Wenzel coaches will guide the ride, and athletes signed up for the Tour de Hood pay no signup fee for new training programs. The first price increase deadline for ride registration is March 31, so be sure to sign up now to save!
This year Wenzel Coaching will also sponsor the Mt Hood Cycling Classic Stage Race run over the same spectacular courses as the Tour de Hood. | |
