Find the Swine

Elevate Cycles would like to introduce our new contest

Find the Swine.

The Elevate Swine will be located in random places and it is your job to find it to win prizes.

How it works:

Elevate Cycles will place the Swine in different locations and give you clues to the swines whereabouts via our Facebook page.  Stop in the store to sign up and receive your alphabet tag. We will document your contact information and assign a tag to you.

Then you must ride to "Find the Swine".  Once you find him, place your tag inside and take a selfie with the Swine and your bike. Post your selfie to our Facebook page.

Once that contests time is up, we will collect the Swine and draw a letter. If the letter drawn is yours, you win the prize for that week. 

The first drawing is for an Elevate water bottle, 4 pack of tubes and an Elevate T-shirt.

Stop in to pick up your alphabet tag and let the games begin.  

A few pictures of the Swine so you know what to look for.

"May the odds be ever in your favor"

Good luck. Have fun. Ride on!

Time for Power

This year's riding season is coming to a close. Hopefully 2014 was a great year for all of your individual cycling goals.

Whether it was your first century ride, triathlon, raising money with our good friends at the Tour De Cure, Team in Training or just being able to spend more time in the saddle and enjoying the ride. 

We know that many of you are starting to plan ahead for next year, and we at Elevate know that the best time to begin preparing to reach your new goal is RIGHT NOW. Over the fall and winter seasons is the perfect time to start building the foundation for a stronger cycling season come spring. Elevate Cycles would like to help you become stronger, faster and more powerful than ever on your bicycle.

How can we do that?
With our CycleOps resistance power training studio.

Here is a quick glimpse at one of our athlete's off season progress from last year training exclusively in the Elevate Cycles Power Cafe during 2013/2014:

The training started in November but the first training for this particular client began on December 14th 2013.  A bit late to the game but still showed very big results with three days a week of training on our CycleOps Power Beam trainers.  Elevate is the only Power training facility for cyclists in the area that uses these electronic Resistance trainers.

Average Power, Watts	160
Maximum Power, Watts	342
Normalized Power	183
Average Watts/kg	2.3
Maximum Watts/kg	4.9

The next set of graphics are from the end of the training season.  Take notice of the flip flop of the heart rate and power distribution graphs.  Look at the power detail averages and max from April 14th 2014.

Average Power, Watts	268
Maximum Power, Watts	731
Normalized Power	302
Average Watts/kg	3.0
Maximum Watts/kg	8.2

First ride outside and was able to hang with one of the fastest group rides around the region.  Ride was short but difficult, and would not have been able to put forth this kind of effort without the training over the winter.  Not all the info is there, but as you can see the training worked and paid off.

Average Power, Watts	280
Maximum Power, Watts	820
Normalized Power	312
Average Watts/kg	--
Maximum Watts/kg	--

Elevate Cycles is offering two free classes for those who have not used resistance power training.

Over the next couple of weeks (Tuesdays, September 30th and October 7th).  If you have never trained with Elevate Cycles during the off season, or have never used resistance power training, this is the time to experience it.

Please RSVP (chris@elevatecycles.com or call 371-4641) and reserve your spot. Only ten spaces available per class.

Elevate Cycles Power Training classes are only the first part of our all new off-season training offerings. Come check out our training studio for one of our free classes. Stay tuned to hear about all the other great opportunities we'll have coming your way soon. We value your input, so let us know what you'd like us to incorporate into our off-season programs to best help you prepare for your 2015 season.

The best time to start preparing for next year's goals is Now. 

Are you ready for the next level?

Elevate your training. Elevate your performance.