Listen to this great interview with the 2007 Coast to Coast winner, Fleur Pawsey.

 

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It has been fairly conclusively shown that both male and female endurance athletes respond to training in the same way; irrespective of program and modality. Russ Pate, Ph.D., an exercise physiologist at the University of South Carolina, recently found that eight male and eight female runners with equivalent VO₂max values and nearly equal amounts of body fat (around 17 per cent) had nearly identical finishing times in a 15-mile race.¹
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I’ve been using one form or another of Crankbros pedals for 4 years; Quattros for the road bike and Eggbeaters for the mountain bike. In that time, with reasonable mileage over a variety of terrains and conditions I’ve had no problems. As is the case with all of my key components I service and maintain these pedals. I am also 75 kg wringing wet so there is no excessive load being applied. I prefer their lightweight, easy entry exit action, positive engagement and multi-sided options. Of course, nothing comes close to Crankbros in the key area of shedding mud and crud.

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NZ Rogaine Champion and cartographer Fanny Lariviere continues her navigation lessons.

Girls can’t read maps… Girls can’t read maps… Yeah right!!!! Reading maps has nothing to do with gender at all. It is all about being able to visualise the information shown on the map in 3D and match it to the real world. In this article, we will go through the main features of a topographic map and see how we can use them to understand the terrain that surrounds us.

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I have reviewed a pack and it was fun; it fitted me, didn’t weight a ton and allowed me to store copious amounts of inane crud.

Yes that’s right, finally, a light, function-rich pack that will go close to meeting the needs of most adventure athletes from the epic trail rider to the full on adventure racer. The pack? The new TALON from Osprey. It’s taken Osprey a wee while to nail a competitive adventure sports design for their range of packs but it’s clear with the Talon they have done their homework at last.

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