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FREE! SPORTS MEDICINE i RETAIL JUNKIE SUPERSTAR i RACE RESULTS i CALENDAR OF EVENTS BY TITLE vtsports.com VERMONT® SPORTS MAGAZINE Vermont’s Authority on Outdoor Fitness and Adventure June, 2010 | Volume XIX | No. X RIDE 100 MILES THIS SUMMER PROUTY PROUD ROCK & RACE WITH IROC RIDE FOR A REASON 23 FUNDRAISING BIKE RIDES MIKE SILVERMAN, DEAN OF THE VERMONT 50 DEATH RACE--DOUBTFUL YOU’LL FINISH VERMONT SPORTS Publisher Chris Blau DEPARTMENTS [email protected] 4 Editor’s Commentary Managing Editor CONTENTS Kate Carter Practice Makes Perfect, [email protected] Sometimes Advertising Sales Chris Blau [email protected] 4 Out & About Rest and Hydration Art Direction and Production Shawn Braley [email protected] 5 Retail Junkie Superstar To advertise call the main office Wear a Helmet, Folks! 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Published by Vermont Sports Magazine, LLC Established 1990 Submissions: Contributions of news and articles are welcome. We ask that queries for articles be sent by mail to our editorial offices. Only material On the Cover: Liz West of Westport, CT, at last year’s Climb for Lyme up the Mount Equinox toll road, one of that includes a self-addressed, stamped envelope the steepest bicycle races anywhere. The Climb for Lyme raises funds for research into treatment and cures for will be returned. If submitting an article for consideration, please understand that while we Lyme disease. Read about more rides f http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/9948931/2/ will contact you, it may take some time. istockphoto_9948931-cyclists-relax-biking-outdoors.jpg or causes on pages 12-13. Photo by Lee Krohn. Vermont Sports welcomes letters to the editor. You may email yours to [email protected]. Photographs: Do you have a photograph that may be of interest to other Vermont Sports readers? THE VERMONT SPORTS We like action shots of outdoor aerobic activities that our readers enjoy. Photos should capture the outdoor fitness experience, preferably with a Vermont theme. Vertical format preferred. Slides, color prints, or high resolution digital photographs are welcomed. Only material that includes a self- addressed, stamped envelope will be returned. GEAR EXCHANGE Unless otherwise requested, all submitted material becomes the property of Vermont Sports Magazine, LLC and its affiliates. Copyright 2009 Vermont Sports M agazine, LLC. gear.vtsports.com All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. A Member of June 2010 Vermont Sports 3 EDITOR COMMENTARY BY KATE CARTER PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, SOMETIMES hen I was in my 30s, I was still holds its weekly time trials, but those evenings in my 30s, when I’d the Green Mountain Bike Club. It took an avid cyclist, logging 175 I have moved on to other endeavors. ridden those speedy time trials. many years and a lot of persuasion Wto 200 miles a week, and I’ve become addicted to dog agility. The I realize perfect agility runs from friends for Phyl to finally buy a on four occasions I actually rode game is incredibly complex and more with Phoebe will be rare. Sometimes new, fast bike, but does it really make that mileage in a day. The training mentally and emotionally challenging we’re just not on our game—I make a difference in her return to time rides I looked forward to most were than any sport I’ve played. I soon a mistake, or Phoebe drops a bar, or trialing? You can find out this month the weekly time trials put on by the learned that teaching my dogs how to maybe she decides to run her own on vtsports.com, and you can see what Stowe Bicycle Club. Every Wednesday do the obstacles was the easy part. It’s course without me. The more we play, this month’s other web-only articles evening we’d meet at one of four what happens between the obstacles though, the more we increase the odds are about on page 7 of this issue. or five locations in the Waitsfield/ that determines how well you run a of nailing the ultimate run, and that Everyone has his or her reasons Waterbury/Stowe area, and ride as course. So, just as it was with bicycling, sweet taste of perfection is what keeps for loving a particular sport and hard as possible for 30 or 40 minutes. or any activity I want to get better me coming back for more. wanting to get better at it, whether My fastest times were always when I at, I practice, practice, practice. Most This month, Vermont Sports has that means going faster, farther, or least expected it—when I was riding mornings I do short drills with both three articles that do not appear in the just having it be easier. Whatever your strong, but didn’t feel like I’d suffered. dogs in my yard. I attend my club’s print edition. You can only find them sport, the more you practice the better I’d cross the finish line and think, weekly practice sessions, take lessons “Well, that felt nice, but it sure didn’t and attend seminars, and I enter a trial only on our website, vtsports.com. One you’ll be, and if you’re incredibly lucky, feel fast.” Then I’d check my time and or two each month. It’s at the trials is about time trialing. Our regular you might get to experience that rare find out I’d set a PR. that I find out if my practice has paid contributor Phyl Newbeck talks about instance of perfection. That didn’t happen often, but off, and what I need to work on. her own experiences time trialing with —Kate Carter when it did, without even realizing At a recent trial I had one of it I had entered “the zone,” and those out-of-body experiences where everything came together on its own, everything came together perfectly. as if I weren’t even present. I’d done Phoebe and I entered the ring, and Dear Editor, my homework—solid base, intervals, 40 seconds later we had completed Robert Rinaldi’s essay on barefoot long slow distance, long nights of our run. It was smooth and effortless. running [May, 2010] was not only the sleep, not too much beer, all that Everything went the way it was clearest analysis of the trend, it’s the important stuff we read about in the supposed to, and our reward was a only one that’s ever made sense to me. trade magazines, and payback came first-place ribbon. On the drive home, Good job. And I’m sticking with my shoes. on those nights when riding seemed I reflected on that run, and couldn’t effortless. really remember anything about it, Jules Older It’s 20 years later and I’m now except that it felt easy. The last time San Francisco, CA in my 50s. The Stowe Bicycle Club I’d felt that sort of effortless effort was OUT & ABOUT BY JOHN MORTON REST AND HYDRATION ith the arrival of summer, workouts, usually including time and to see sleeping rooms decorated with medicine physicians will agree that old many outdoor enthusiasts mileage, in a training log or journal. peaceful forest scenes and filled with fashioned water is hard to beat for re- Ware gearing up for physically In the complexity of creating a suc- soothing music. Apparently the Sovi- hydration during an event. challenging events, such as charity bike cessful training plan, a couple of very ets believed that they were approach- A related tip that most endur- rides, overnight hiking expeditions, simple principles are often overlooked; ing the limits of intensity and volume ance athletes learn from experience is and distance running races. Many of the need for adequate rest and hydra- of physical training and therefore were to drink early and drink often. By the us consider ourselves physically active, tion.