Two Wheel Blogs

With blog traffic slowing down, the innovative blogger known as 2-old-2 go slow decided to change the emphasis of his well known twowheelblogs to a focus on Tricycles. This would correspond to the new name, threewheelblogs and be exclusively for all tricycle riders regardless of age.

When asked for more details, 2-old simply said that the extra wheel would make things more interesting as well as providing an extra degree of stability for his own riding. It remains to be seen if power meter manufacturers will be as enthusiastic towards the three wheelers as 2-old.

It's a fairly simple idea. Look at professional teams who play during the fall and winter and see if their location in terms of latitude shows any significant performance correlations. This blog appears to be exploring this simple idea. American football is an ideal sport to track since training starts in the late summer and the season begins in the fall and goes through winter. Check out his thoughts on recent super bowl winners.

If an amateur racing cyclist wanted to see if supplemental vitamin D could make a difference in their performance, here's a few things they could do.

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A few weeks ago, a well known professor of nutrition referenced this study (which was published in the AJCN) on our local cycling message board and cautioned people about using vitamin C. Her message seemed to indicate that, in general, people should follow the FDA RDI for vitamin C rigorously and that going above this value could be detrimental and dangerous.

This is a great video of Dr. Linus Pauling, who was probably the second most important scientist of the 20th century. Listen to how much vitamin C he was taking at the time this video was made. I don't know when it was made actually but I suspect it was early or mid 80's. Perhaps the most compelling part of the presentation is at the end when he describes the commonly suggested needs of monkeys. It reminded me of this quote by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: "The purpose of science has gone from making discoveries to getting grants granted."

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That's the title of this article at Men's Health magazine. There's lots of stuff to consider in this. The main thing is that aerobic exercise may not be the health promoter that it has been thought to be in the recent past.

Season starts this Sunday. I am ready. I've had a great week. Been riding the cross bike exclusively and running a bit too. I had a little chat with Ryan P. last night, one of the elite local guys. I asked him about running and cycling and he was very positive about it. Of course, he is more accomplished as a cross country and cyclocross racer, not as much on the road. So this will be the interesting thing for me to observe. I've been running a lot through the season and riding less (up until recently). How will I perform on race day?