D2 Racing Cycling Team

100 Mile Mountain Bike Race Training Guidelines

Every person and their body are different. The important thing to remember is everybody will respond to different techniques differently and it is best to find what best works for you. Through changes or tweaks you can improve upon techniques that work for you and ignore those that don’t work for you.  Here is a great outline to follow and refer back to while training for your mountain bike endurance race. Training Ideology for Endurance Events Commit to time, not miles. When I...

Tart Cherry for Muscle Fatigue?

The June issue of Life Extension landed in the mailbox the other day and I just had time to glance at the front cover. My eyes quickly scanned and caught one of the headline articles reading “Improve Muscle Recovery After Exercise”. More than intrigued, I flipped to find the article they were mentioning. Low and behold the actual title of the article was “Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Tart Cherries”. In an attempt to make this a short write-up; the first section of the...

D2 Racing’s Cycling Spring Training Camp

For the past four years the D2 Team has made the trip down to Southern Tennessee / Northern Georgia in March or April. A few of those years were scheduled around the Big Frog 65, but with the massive success of the race, it was sold out way too soon for us to jump in on that opportunity. Since we love the area and weather so much, we still decided on making the trip only encapsulating it into a spring training session of riding instead of racing. Another interesting fact about our trips is that...

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