Coach Curt Chesney writes: If you’ve read my training journal from this winter you’ll notice two things. I wasn’t kidding when I said in November “I refuse to ride indoors this winter” and in December when I said “triathlon is a summer sport”.

A recent study in the National Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research outlined the importance of core training for cyclists. The title of this study was "Relationship Between Cycling Mechanics and Core Stability". The purpose of the study was to determine whether cycling mechanics are affected by core stability.

Coach Brendon writes: Winter is coming! No light during the week, frosty and wet road conditions, but the winter period represents an opportunity for many triathletes, it is a time when you can work on specific areas of your cycling to be ready to reach new levels of performance in the coming season.

It’s pretty unanimous that the bike is most athletes’ favorite part of triathlon. Whether they are fast, slow or middle of the packers most people enjoy the exhilarating feeling of flying down the road in a full aero tuck watching the scenery pass them at a bullet’s pace.

1. The bike goes faster because you apply more watts to rear wheel, period. The rear wheel doesn't care in what manner that power is generated at or applied to the pedals. What matters is what that power is when it reaches the wheel.

As your body accounts for up to 80% of the drag on the bike below are some good ways of getting more aerodynamic.

It never fails. The first thing a person does when they buy a power meter, is to go out and ride as hard as they can, and then they rush home to look at their power file. After all, everyone knows that Floyd Landis can sit on 450 W for almost an hour, so everyone wants to know how they stack up.

Unless you been living under a rock for the last year, you know the bicycle power meters are the new rage for triathletes. You see the articles, read the testimonials, done the math on the price even researched a couple of the models available on the market...

You have probably experiencing the sensation of trying to run on two dead legs coming off the bike. Running off the bike is highly stressful and you are most likely to cramp or get an injury in this critical juncture, especially in sprint races.

Contributing Trifuel coaches Patrick McCrann and Rich Strauss spent last week riding with Levi, Basso, and the Tour of California. Well, maybe not with them, but they took a group of Triathletes and rode all the stages for an Epic bike camp and journey. Read Patrick's report...