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No Sleep Till Bogota
With Rob Britton and Griffin Easter
Transcordilleras is a gravel epic through the Colombian Andes over 600 miles. First Endurance athletes Rob Britton & Griffin Easter share their adventure.
Blasting Meatloaf in Colombia
With Whitney & Zack Allison
Transcordilleras is a gravel epic through the Colombian Andes over 600 miles. First Endurance athletes Whitney Allison & Zack Allison share their adventure.
Beta Alanine: Better Than Bicarb
By Dr. Luke Bucci, PhD
Dr. Bucci explains how beta alanine neutralizes ATP-related acid more effectively than bicarb – and it does so without bicarb’s dosing issues, brief benefit window, and calamitous impact on GI tracts and sodium levels.
Fueling Considerations for Female Athletes
By Jennifer Kurtz, PhD, CISSN, CSCS, EP-C
Dr. Kurtz takes a look at specific nutritional strategies that female athletes can take to get the most out of their performance and recovery during the menstrual cycles, including specific carb-intake recommendations and a handful of nutrients that are especially critical for each phase.
GOLD + SILVER IN YELLOW, BLUE, AND RED
With Diana Peñuela
It’s reductive to describe DNA Pro Cycling’s Diana Peñuela as, simply, a sprinter. She’s also top-10’d the Tour of the Gila twice and she’s been a regular top-five finisher at Colombian nationals for over a decade. One box she hadn’t checked? A national TT title. As of late January, consider that box checked.
Letter from the California Coast
By Andrew “Lespy” L'Esperance
Maxxis Factory Racing’s Andrew “Lespy” L'Esperance recently joined FE athlete Rob Britton for a training epic along the California coastline, and we gotta say: It seems like they had way too much fun for it to have qualified as “training.”
Research
Beta Alanine: Better Than Bicarb
By Dr. Luke Bucci, PhD
Dr. Bucci explains how beta alanine neutralizes ATP-related acid more effectively than bicarb – and it does so without bicarb’s dosing issues, brief benefit window, and calamitous impact on GI tracts and sodium levels.
MultiV or MultiV-PRO – Which Is Right For You?
By Dr. Luke Bucci, PhD
MultiV is engineered to cover every nutrient gap that dedicated, live-to-compete endurance athletes experience. Which seems ideal, but MultiV-PRO goes even further.
Game-Changing Nutrients for MultiV-PRO
By Dr. Luke Bucci, PhD
When it comes to MVM support, MultiV-PRO is foundational because it closes every vitamin and mineral gap affecting endurance athletes. But that’s just the baseline. The formula earns its “PRO” status through the inclusion of additional nutrients that elevate it from foundational to elite.
Coaching
Fueling Considerations for Female Athletes
By Jennifer Kurtz, PhD, CISSN, CSCS, EP-C
Dr. Kurtz takes a look at specific nutritional strategies that female athletes can take to get the most out of their performance and recovery during the menstrual cycles, including specific carb-intake recommendations and a handful of nutrients that are especially critical for each phase.
High-Carb Fueling on the WorldTour
By Larry Warbasse
Learn how fueling has evolved at cycling’s highest level and how the WorldTour pros are maximizing their carbs during the hardest days on the bike.
Expert Nutritionist Explains Benefits Of High-Carb Fueling
By Breanne Nalder Harward, MS, RDN
When designing any new formula, we always defer to scientific research and the experts who produce, read, critique, and challenge it. As a credentialed nutritionist, former pro, and practicing endurance coach, Breanne Nalder Harward fits the bill.
Inspiration
Letter from the California Coast
By Andrew “Lespy” L'Esperance
Maxxis Factory Racing’s Andrew “Lespy” L'Esperance recently joined FE athlete Rob Britton for a training epic along the California coastline, and we gotta say: It seems like they had way too much fun for it to have qualified as “training.”
A Nutritionist goes to Nationals
With Jennifer Kurtz, PhD(c), CISSN, CSCS, EP-C
Jennifer takes a break from the lab to give us the dirt on September’s marathon XC Nats. She discusses the balance of training with the requirements of life as a non-pro and the real reward that we’re all chasing as endurance athletes.
Recovering. With Gratitude.
By Brittany Peterson
Nike professional ultra runner Brittany Peterson describes the new perspective she’s gained on life and training after a complete rebuild during recovery from surgery.
News
MultiV-PRO: The 7-in-1 MVM
By Dr. Luke Bucci, PhD
A high-level tour of the key changes and key contributing ingredients in MultiV-PRO – as well as what stayed the same between generations.
A Tale of Two Medals
With Shannon Koch
Shannon Koch rode into Augusta looking for gold. She found it. We had a conversation with the new Master’s crit national champion following her big solo move to take the stars and stripes.
Rob Britton Comes Good at Badlands
With Rob Britton
In early September, FE Factory Team member Rob Britton netted the win at Badlands, which traverses 500 miles of countryside in southern Spain – including absolutely dizzying heights and over 52,000ft of climbing.