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Towards the end of last year, I heard about Ultimate Sports Psychology’s range of CD through the FredCast podcast. This is a series of CDs designed to improve motivation and performance for cyclists, triathletes & athletes using hypnosis techniques developed by Dr Rick Collingwood. Since one of my big problems with my training is motivation,…

With the release of Mac OS X 10.11, Apple has removed some of the restrictions on using Apple Maps in applications. In previous releases of Mac OS X, only apps sold via the Mac App store could use Apple Maps, similar to the restrictions placed on iCloud. If you’re using 4.0.7 on El Capitan, you’ll…

The weather was fine enough at the weekend to get out on my bike for the first ride with the SRMs fitted. It was meant to be a ride for comparing the accuracy of the Polar Power system with the SRMs, but I realised just as I was about to set off that I hadn’t…

Back from Lanzarote, and finally got around to writing about our time at Club La Santa. Weather was excellent apart from one day with really heavy rain and gale force winds. One thing I wasn’t expecting were the hills! It was a 20 – 30 minute climb on the bike from Club La Santa until…

I updated my PowerTap hub today to the new firmware which supports ANT+ Sport, which meant I’m able to use it with my Garmin Edge 705. The update was fairly painless – the updater cost £75 from cyclepowermeters.com. It was simply a case of removing the cover of the PowerTap hub and pulling out the…

Have a look at http://www.bartape.net/ for a series of behind-the-scenes short films about the Cervelo Test Team. The films currently on the site follow the team from its beginnings to the Tour of Flanders, with more promised.