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Theme Ride Thursday: RIP 2020
Celebrate the artists lost in 2020 with a tribute ride. Here is a playlist to get you started.Read more…
Mainstream Music Monday: Transcending Generations
Every artist must come to accept the fact that one song will always eclipse their earlier and later works. This song transcends time and the latest remix is one you don’t want to miss.Read more…
Friday Favorites: Great Song By a Band Whose Name is Unprintable
This song rocks for long intervals. Unfortunately, we can’t publish the band’s name due to public decency regulations.Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Songs About Light
Here is a bucket playlist of over 180 tracks about shining lights, turning on/up the lights, or lights out. Use them for your Winter Solstice profile or create an entirely new theme ride playlist at any other time of the year.Read more…
Profile: Negative Split Intervals
This interval profile is based on the concept of negative splits, a training and racing strategy that involves completing the second half of a training effort or race faster than the first. This profile uses song pairs where we set a baseline in the first song and then we “beat” the baseline in the second song. Read more…
VIRTUAL RIDE! Four Mountains: Exploring Musical Genres
This replay of my virtual ride practice session will be up for 48 hours only, so I hope you can ride to it! Read more…
Profile: Things That Make Me Happy
In the midst of the craziness we currently find ourselves, why not an entire playlist about things that make you happy? I put some of my favorite happy songs into a profile of three rounds of fast flats to climbs. I also recorded a virtual version of this ride—enjoy! Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Election Day Playlist and Profile
With the 2020 election drawing near, we’ve compiled a playlist and quick profile to get your riders in the mood to go out there and vote! Read more…
Theme Ride Thursday: Forever Young
We are a culture obsessed with youth. No one wants to grow old and my monthly trip to the salon for a cut and color proves just that. Today’s playlist celebrates those younger years that many of us relish.Read more…
Mantras for Tempo and Endurance Rides
One of our more popular series on ICA is a set of articles with various strategies for inspiring your students up long climbs. The series was called Strategy for Strength, and is one of the favorites we’ve done on ICA. One of the strategies was to inspire students to come up with a mantra that they repeat over and over to themselves as they climb. Of course, mantras aren’t just for climbing. I was inspired recently to come up with some for sustained tempo pace.Read more…