Glen and I are joined once again by Jeff Winkler of Winkler Cycling (winklercycling.com) in Boulder, Colorado. You’ll recall that Jeff is a Category 1 USAC coach who has over 30 years of experience in bicycle racing. He started racing as a junior athlete and rose up through the ranks to become a professional cyclist racing in the U.S. and Europe. As a coach, Jeff has worked with racers in road, track, cyclocross and mountain bike disciplines, working with novice to professional athletes.
I thought it would be easy to come up with a list of common mistakes made by masters athletes, but I was wrong. “Mistakes” per se are contextual, and masters athletes in particular have a wide variety of goals. We settled on discussing a set of areas where mistakes are easy to make for masters athletes in particular as a result of aging or health issues that seem to arise or become more prominent as we get older.
In general, I think it is safe to say that we are speaking to masters athletes who fall into a range defined as:
Health issues that tend to appear later in life due to aging:
Other issues that emerge over time:
Biggest Mistakes made by Masters Athletes:
You can find Jeff Winkler at https://winklercycling.com/
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