Leadville Qualifier Training Camp

Get race ready with the Leadville Qualifier Training Camp, this 15 week training program will provide the mental, physical, and tactical tools you need to succeed in the Tahoe Trail 100 – Leadville Qualifier Race, hosted by Northstar California.

Camp Head Coach Julie Young leads on-bike training session, off-bike pedaling technique and tactical discussions, Q and A sessions, and develops the 15 week, comprehensive training plan.

All camp participants will be eligible to submit a 30-second video explaining why you should receive one
free entry into the Leadville 100. Enter-To-Win Free Entry Into the Leadville 100!

This is an opportunity to receive a comprehensive 15 week daily training plan and attend a hands-on camp with Leadville Qualifier veterans and coaches.

The group training plan starts on your registration date and goes through the Tahoe Trail 100 Race on July 22, 2012

With your registration you will receive:
• A daily training program, progressively developed with your workouts delivered via Training Peaks
• Three-Day Camp at Northstar California (home of the Tahoe Trail 100) including: Comprehensive on and off the
bike programming, Lactate threshold testing, Bike fitting, Cycling specific core stability session, Panel of experts discussion
AND MORE!
• On-Bike Training during three-day camp, June 8-10 – Ride on the qualifier course with race veterans, review key
sections on the course with discussions on race tactics and strategy
• Guaranteed entry to the Tahoe Trail 100 Leadville Qualifier Race at Northstar on July 22, AND MORE!
Pricing:
$700 if you register before 5/15; $900 after 5/15.
How to register:
Please stop in or call the Season Pass & Tickets Office,
530.562.2267 or 1.800.GO.NORTH™ (1.800.466.6784).

Julie Young’s O2fitness – Truckee Women’s Cycling Training Group

Training Program Details

  • Complete 8-week comprehensive daily training program coupled with weekly group training
  • Starts June 6
  • Twice weekly group workouts (Wednesdays 5:30-7:00pm/Sundays 9am)
  • $225 program fee by May 28  -increases to $255 after June 1
  • Minimum fitness requirement: must be able to ride 20 miles
  • Training group open to all –who want a science-based, structured, comprehensive training plan, supported by group workouts

Training Program Participants Receive

  • Daily science-based, systematic progressive training program based on heart rate zones written by Julie Young** delivered via Training Peaks web-based coaching software
  • Expert coaching and support
  • Wednesday  coached workouts, meet at various Truckee locations and include – handling skills, riding in a group, cornering; pedaling technique/drills; economy of movement/speed skills; climbing/ascending technique/skills, specific cycling strength; tempo and sub lactate threshold intervals
  • Sunday un-coached group ride–  endurance/base training – route determined by the coach, consistent with training plan volume progression
  • 15% discount on Silver Sage Sports Performance services for the duration of the program – including Lactate Threshold and Vo2 tests, and  Specialized Certified Professional bike fitting
  • Post- program participants eligible for 10% discount on individualized coaching and training plans
  • E-mail support –  individual questions regarding training and cycling related issues
  • Meet new training partners
  • Two organized cycling workouts per week – Wednesdays and Sundays
  • Specific strength and core program designed to improve cycling efficiency training

Contact Julie Young at jyoung@o2fitness.net for further information and to register, or visit www.o2fitness.net

**Julie Young is the Head Coach of O2fitness and Director of Silver Sage Sports Performance Center, and a former 12-year US National Cycling and World Championship Team member.

 

 

Julie Young’s O2fitness – Truckee Women’s Trail Running Group

Training Program Details

  • Complete 8-week comprehensive daily training program coupled with weekly group training
  • Starts June 4
  • Twice weekly group workouts (Mondays 6:30-7:30am;/Sundays 9am)
  • $147 program fee by May 28  -increases to $177 after June1
  • Minimum fitness requirement: must be able to run 5 miles
  • Training group open to all –who want a science-based, structured, comprehensive training plan, supported by group workouts

Training Program Participants Receive

  • Daily science-based, systematic progressive training program based on heart rate zones written by Julie Young** delivered via Training Peaks web-based coaching software
  • Expert coaching and support
  • Monday coached workouts, meet at various Truckee area trails and include – gait technique/drills; speed to improve economy of movement; ascending and descending technique/skills; workouts to improve specific running power and strength; tempo and sub lactate threshold intervals
  • Sunday un-coached group run–  endurance/base training – route determined by the coach, consistent with training plan volume progression
  • 15% discount on Silver Sage Sports Performance services for the duration of the program – including Lactate Threshold and Vo2 tests, and  Dartfish video gait analysis
  • Post- program participants eligible for 10% discount on individualized coaching and training plans
  • E-mail support –  individual questions regarding training and running related issues
  • Meet new training partners
  • Two organized running workouts per week – Mondays and Sundays
  • Specific strength and core program designed to improve running efficiency

Contact Julie Young at jyoung@o2fitness.net for further information and to register, or visit www.o2fitness.net

**Julie Young is the Head Coach of O2fitness and Director of Silver Sage Sports Performance Center; former 12-year US National Cycling and World Championship Team member; multiple winner of Tahoe Rim Trail 50K, Lake of the Sky and Golden Hills trail marathons.

 

 

Julie Young’s O2fitness – Reno Women’s Cycling Training Group

Training Program Details

  • Complete 10-week comprehensive daily training program coupled with weekly group training
  • Starts June 4
  • Twice weekly group workouts (Mondays 5:30-7pm/Sundays 9am)
  • $275 program fee by May 28  -increases to $315 after June 1
  • Minimum fitness requirement: must be able to ride 20 miles
  • Training group open to all –who want a science-based, structured, comprehensive training plan, supported by group workouts

Training Program Participants Receive

  • Daily science-based, systematic progressive training program based on heart rate zones written by Julie Young** delivered via Training Peaks web-based coaching software
  • Expert coaching and support
  • Monday  coached workouts, meet at Silver Sage Sports Performance Center and  include– handling skills, riding in a group, cornering; pedaling technique/drills; economy of movement/speed skills; climbing/ascending technique/skills, specific cycling strength; tempo and sub lactate threshold intervals
  • Sunday un-coached group ride–  endurance/base training – route determined by the coach, consistent with training plan volume progression
  • 15% discount on Silver Sage Sports Performance services for the duration of the program – including Lactate Threshold and Vo2 tests, and  Specialized Certified Professional bike fitting
  • Post- program participants eligible for 10% discount on individualized coaching and training plans
  • E-mail support –  individual questions regarding training and cycling related issues
  • Meet new training partners
  • Two organized cycling workouts per week – Mondays and Sundays
  • Specific strength and core program designed to improve cycling efficiency training

Contact Julie Young at jyoung@o2fitness.net for further information and to register, or visit www.o2fitness.net

**Julie Young is the Head Coach of O2fitness and Director of Silver Sage Sports Performance Center, and a former 12-year US National Cycling and World Championship Team member. 

Tahoe Rim Trail Endurance Runs – Informational Workshop Series

Presented by Silver Sage Sports Performance Center in partnership with the Tahoe Rim Trail Endurance Runs, the series of informational workshops focus specifically on helping Tahoe Rim Trail (TRT) 50K, 50M and 100M participants optimize their preparation from effective training, injury prevention and recovery strategies to nutrition. However, the workshops are open to all who have an interest in better preparing for ultra running in general.

 

Workshop presenters – Dr. Andy Pasternak, owner of Silver Sage Sports Performance Center and TRT Medical Director; Julie Young, owner and head coach of o2fitness, director of Silver Sage Sports Performance Center and multiple winner of the TRT 50K.

 

If you plan to attend one or all three of these no-cost, informational workshops, please RSVP, which will also enter you in to a drawing for a complementary lactate threshold test. Talks will be held at Silver Sage Sports Performance Center, 10467 Double R Blvd, Reno, NV 89521. Series schedule and topics as follows

 

Workshop #1

Date: Wednesday May 9

Time: 6-7pm

Topic: Rethinking the More is Better Ultra Training Mentality

Workshop #2

Date: Thursday, June 7

Time: 6-7pm

Topic: Diets of the Day – Gluten, Paleo, Vegan – and the Ultra Runner

Workshop #3

Date: Thursday, June 28

Time: 6-7pm

Topic: Avoiding Common TRT Pitfalls – Reflections from TRT Race Medical Director, Dr. Andy Pasternak and Race Director Dave Cotter

 

For further information and to RSVP please email Julie Young jyoung@o2fitness.net. To learn more about Silver Sage Sports Performance Center and o2fitness – coaching and training, please visit silversagecenter.com and o2fitness.net, or check us out on facebook.

Race Tactics Clinics – Session #2

A great opportunity for any of you wanting to learn about bike racing team tactics and individual tactics, as well as honing in on your bike handling skills.

Session 2 – Wednesday, April 18th

Duration: 5:30-7:30pm

 

Sessions are put on by:

Trainer/Coach: Julie Young of O2Fitness Coaching and Training (Pro Cyclist/Endurance Athlete)

Rio Strada Women’s Team Manager: Beverley McInnes

Cost:  $20 for both if you pay in advance – To pay in advance, please submit payment via PayPal to: onespeedbev@gmail.com

$15 for one session

Session #2 – Position in the Peloton

  • Where should you be?
  • Safety takes precedence
  • Keep it in perspective – this isn’t the World Champs
  • Where to be, when to be – Front, middle, back
  • Team tactics regarding other racers/teams
    • When to pull in the break, sit in
    • Sit on a break and sprint – is it ok?
    • Should I take up the pace? When and why?
  • Creating Opportunity
    • How Opportunities are made and lost
    • Flats, winds – your teams secret weapon – the quickly, well organized echelon
    • Capitalizing on cross-winds
  • Pre-race Strategy
  • Sprints
    • The art of leading out and sprinting

Riding Exercises – leading out and sprinting

 

Women & Men’s Cat 4s and 5s – Race Tactic Training Session

Here’s a great opportunity to learn about bike racing team tactics and individual tactics, as well as honing in on your bike handling skills.

Please contact Julie Young at jyoung@o2fitness.net  if you are interested in joining or have further questions

Two, two hour sessions, Wednesdays 5:45-7:45pm

Dates:

Session 1 – Wednesday, April 4th

Session 2 – Wednesday, April 18th

Sessions conducted by:

Trainer/Coach: Julie Young

Rio Strada Women’s Team Manager: Beverley McInnes

Rio Strada Team Owner: Ron Rouse

Cost:  $20 for both if you pay in advance – To pay in advance, please submit payment via PayPal to: onespeedbev@gmail.com

$15 for one session.

Parking and start location:

Parking lot off of Humphrey. It’s the parking lot for Traylor Ranch Bird Sanctuary

Course: Training circuit in Loomis beginning at Humphrey Road and English Colony Way, southward on Humphrey (RT to remain on Humphrey at Cowell Rd)  to Citrus Colony Road RT (westward), then to Delmar Avenue RT (northward), back to English Colony.

Tactics Training Session Outline:

Discussions first, then hit the race course for some race scenarios and tactics exercises.

Session 1 – Discussion overview of concepts and on-bike race tactics clinic.

  • Brief review of pack riding skills and safety
  • Protocol – be aggressive but keep things safe
  • Look before you leap
  • Standing (letting up) up in the middle of the pack
  • Drafting
  • Pulling – when do you pull and how long
  • Overlapping wheels
  • Half-wheeling
  • High-speed cornering & descending cornering
  • Covering attacks effectively and efficiently
  • Protecting the team’s designated rider
  • Bridging the gap
    • When/how
    • Timing
    • Make it clean
    • Adhering to team pre-race plan and adapting to plan changes
    • How to reconcile team tactics and race strategy with individual intuition and opportunities

Riding Exercises

  • Practice – attacks, bridging gaps
  • Get into two groups – each group to have a plan and implement in mock race scenario

 Session 2 – Position in the Peloton

  • Where should you be?
  • Safety takes precedence
  • Keep it in perspective – this isn’t the World Champs
  • Where to be, when to be – Front, middle, back
  • Team tactics regarding other racers/teams
    • When to pull in the break, sit in
    • Sit on a break and sprint – is it ok?
    • Should I take up the pace? When and why?
    • Creating Opportunity
      • How Opportunities are made and lost
      • Flats, winds – your teams secret weapon – the quickly, well organized echelon
      • Capitalizing on cross-winds
      • Pre-race Strategy
      • Sprints
        • The art of leading out and sprints

Riding Exercises – leading out and sprinting

NorCal AIDS Cycle 2012

NorCal AIDS Cycle 2012 Training Talk

Saturday, March 31 – 2:00pm at Hot Italian, Sacramento

NorCAl AIDS Cycle 2012 takes place May 17 - 20, cyclists will be riding 330 miles to raise money and awareness for HIV/AIDS service providers in the Sacramento Valley and beyond! See below for a sample course details.

Julie Young will provide a training talk with Q and A to follow. Topics will include -importance of bike fit for injury prevention and improved comfort and performance; perfecting efficient pedaling technique; and the importance of postural strength.  

The training discussion will focus on maximizing the final six weeks of training. The art of tapering – is it all about bonbons, getting horizontal on the couch and watching House Hunters Internatioanl? Nutrition and hydration strategies discussion will include - the importance of setting the foundation weeks and days leading up the event;  nutritional guidelines the week before the ride; and eating and drinking during the ride.  

Join us

NorCal AIDS Cycle Sample Course

Day 1 (95 miles) Begins in Folsom where the first half of the day is spent exploring the rolling terrain of the foothills near Lincoln, Loomis, and Auburn before finishing the day at Gridley in the heart of the Central Valley.

Day 2 (90 miles) Cyclists are able to choose between two different 90-mile routes. Both options include cycling the historic towns of Oroville and Durham before ending the day with a pleasant cruise along the banks of the Sacramento River and evening camp in Colusa. The more challenging option takes cyclists up Table Mt., to add a steep climb, and 10 miles to the day. Cyclists seeking less challenging terrain will cirlce around Table Mt., still enjoying some rolling hills around the mountain’s base.

Days 3 and 4 – The Weekender

Day 3 (85 miles) Begins on the flats and breaks away into rolling hills followed by a seven mile climb out of the valley.  From there, it’s a mostly-downhill ride along Cache Creek as it empties out into the Sacramento Valley. We’ll ride by the newly expanded Cache Creek Casino Resort before stopping for the night in Woodland.

Day 4 (50 miles) The easiest day of the ride and final stage is completed with a flat 50 miles from Woodland to Winters to Davis and then back to Sacramento.

8th Annual Reno-Tahoe Odyssey Relay Run Adventure -Relay 101s

Relay 101s

We have scheduled a number of Relay 101 Q&A sessions in the coming weeks. At these sessions, we will give a short presentation about the relay and share critical tips to help you have a successful event. We highly encourage RTO rookies to attend one of these sessions. This is a great opportunity to ask all of your questions. There are not any dumb questions.

In addition, Julie Young and Dr. Andy Pasternak of Silver Sage Sports Performance Center, one of the RTO’s sponsors, will discuss their services and programs that assist athletes of all abilities and interests to more effectively reach their individual fitness goals. Julie has an extensive background as an elite national team athlete, as well as coaching endurance athletes of all abilities. She will discuss steps to maximize training time in preparation for the Reno Tahoe Odyssey. Dr. Pasternak also will address in-race strategies for your best performance.

In addition, Julie Young is offering a compreshensive training plan and weekly training sessions to help participants prepare for the event, and maximize their Odyssey experience. Please see complete details in the o2fitness website under clinics.

We’ll also give away some RTO swag and have some other fun. We hope to see you at one or more of these sessions.

The schedule:

  • Thursday March 15, 7 p.m. – Silver Sage Sports Performance Center (please RSVP)
  • Thursday March 29, 7 p.m. – Silver Sage Sports Performance Center (please RSVP)
  • Thursday April 19, 7 p.m. – Scheels
  • Sunday April 22, 4 p.m. – Scheels
  • Thursday May 10, 7 p.m. – Scheels

Please note that the sessions at Silver Sage Sports Performance will be limited to the first 35 to RSVP. If you want to attend one of the sessions at Silver Sage Sports Performance, please RSVP to eric@renotahoeodyssey.com.

Silver Sage Sports Performance Center is located at 10467 Double R Blvd in South Reno. Scheels is located in the Legends Mall in Sparks. The Relay 101s at Scheels will be in the 2nd floor conference rooms behind the hunting section.

For those of you who are not in the area and who cannot attend any of these sessions, please email eric@renotahoeodyssey.com to make other arrangements to get the information that you need.

Reno Wheelmen Open House at Silver Sage

The 2012 Race Season is almost here! 
 
To help kick things off, Silver Sage Sports Performance, Reno Wheelmen’s title sponsor since 2007, is hosting an open house on Wednesday, March 21 from 6-8 p.m.  The club will provide pizzas, and you’re welcome to BYOB. 
 
There will be a Lactate Threshold Test demonstration. SSSP uses this test’s results to determine individual athletes’ training heart rate and power zones. 
 
Julie Young, owner of O2 Fitness and an SSSP partner, will provide the 411 on bike fitting, using the Specialized bike fit protocol and Dartfish video analysis, to blend the bike to individual’s unique biomehcanics and flexibility. Proper bike fit is an essential ingredient in cycling performance, balancing comfort with power output and aerodynamics, and effectively avoiding overuse injuries. 
 
Silver Sage presents a unique model in the Reno region – offering an integrated comprehensive menu of professional services – including testing, bike fitting and coaching/training - to help each individual athlete reach their peak performance.
 
Finally, we’ll end the evening with a Q&A session with Julie - race tactics, general cycling questions, behind the scenes at European stage racing.  Julie has had an amazing career (winner of the Tour de L’Aude, the Tour d’Aquitaine, and many other races). Bring your curiosity and questions.
 
Silver Sage Sports Performance and O2fitness is pleased to act as a resource to help the Wheelmen reach their performance potential.
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