Jim Cotton

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jim Cotton

1 hour agoWarning signs are blinking red after Pogačar gives up big swaths of time to Evenepoel and Vingegaard, but was there something else to it than ‘pacing’? Ex-pro Tom Danielson raises some interesting points. Warning signs are blinking red after Tadej Pogačar gave up rivers of time to Tour de France …

2 weeks ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

The men's and women's Tour de Suisse will be the first pro races to introduce live GPS tracking this month in their prestigious Tour de France tune-up tests. Organizers confirmed bikes will be fitted with trackers and monitored from a central safety center for both the women's tour, starting June 12, and the men's race, starting June 15. The measure comes in response to two recent tragedies involving Swiss athletes on home soil.

2 weeks ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

Spanish prodigy Iván Romeo rolled the dice with a late breakaway raid to put stage 3 of the Critérium du Dauphiné and a first WorldTour leader's jersey on his young palmarès. Movistar's former U23 time trial champion unleashed a 4km pursuit out of the day's breakaway to thwart attacking rival Mathieu van der Poel 's hopes on a hard, hilly stage that looked perfect for the monument champion.

2 weeks ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

Sodium bicarb in an energy gel? The same baking soda you put in your cakes or see listed in your cleaning products? You read it right. Sodium bicarbonate energy gels are now a "thing" in an intriguing step forward for this potentially gut-broiling performance enhancer. Mnstry has launched the catchily titled " Bicarb Gel 40 Lemon 1:0.8," an energy gel that delivers a potent cocktail of carbohydrates and blood buffering-bicarb.

3 weeks ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel are destroying every rule of modern racing, and they're underlining the chapter titled "durability" in the training manual, too. The Pogi era of hyper-performance and super-aggression has made "durability" the Holy Grail of elite performance. "Durability has had to become a much bigger focus of how we train," Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe head of performance Dan Lorang told Velo. "It's not the rider who can push the most when they're fresh who wins races.