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2023-05-21 Metformin Inhibits Mitochondrial Adaptations To Aerobic Exercise Training In Older Adults

2023-04-04 The Essential Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, and Natural Remedies

2023-03-18 Exercise More Effective for Depression and Anxiety Than Medication?

2023-01-24 Can extreme exercise damage the heart? With Dr Benjamin Levine

2022-10-22 This Is More Important Than Walking 10,000 Steps

2022-05-14 Origins of the Alta Alpine 8-Pass Challenge Double Century: The Mad Dog Death March Documentary

2022-02-15 'Extreme' Exercise, Atherosclerosis, Coronary Artery Calcium Score —  “Exercised, The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health”

2022-01-30 Science Daily: Researchers discover how lactic acid weakens anti-tumor defenses

2022-01-30 RealClearScience: The Ultimate Performance Enhancing Drug

2022-01-30 RealClearScience: How Regular Exercise Restructures the Brain

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2023-09-23 Apple Watch: Validity of Exercise Metrics and Usability, an Extreme Endurance Cyclists’s Perspective

2020-04-28 The Ongoing Disinformation Campaign by the Medical Establishment: Context-Dropping and Lying by Omission about Masks

2020-04-10 Evicted from Alabama Hills: Security Theater Brought to Bear on Health

2018-03-21 Experience Report: Concussion (“Moderate to Severe”) aka Mild Traumatic Brain Injury via a Short Flight at 25 mph into Embankment from Bike

2017-03-24 Carrizo Plain Flower Status, 2017

2015-03-01 The Camera for Cycling

2015-02-16 Apple Watch for Sports — What About ANT?

2013-05-05 Aperture Series: Blue Doll / Pellegrino (Canon 5D Mark III)

2007-03-20 Exercise and the brain

Concussion / Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Recovering from a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) AKA concussion, a personal experience report..

1. Concussion: Family Time
2. Concussion: Post-Crash Recovery Phase 1, Post-Acute Phase
3. Concussion: Post-Crash Recovery Phase 2, Mid-way Phase

Everest Challenge 2-Day Stage Race 2012 / 2013

The most challenging cycling road race in the USA?.

1. Everest Challenge Training — Calories Burned
2. Everest Challenge Training Diary

Double Centuries, Centuries and Similar

Some great and not so great miles..

1. Preparing For a Double Century (Gear)
2. Preparing For a Double Century (Dry Run / Pre-Test)
3. Death Valley Double Century
4. Solvang Spring Double Century
5. Devil Mountain Double Century
6. Southern Inyo Double Century
7. Joshua Tree Double Century
8. Central Coast Double Century
9. Terrible Two Double Century
10. Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge Double Century

Nutrition and Food

Tips on how to eat and recover when training and racing..

1. Nutrition for a Double Century

Guest Professor Dr. Clyde Wilson

Nutrition and training tips (used with permission)..

1. Complete Sports Nutrition: WHAT, WHEN and WATER

Workouts

Analysis of various workouts..

1. Lose a Pound of Fat in ONE Day: Century Fat Burner
2. Solvang Spring Double Century Analysis

Blog posts

2023

2023-05-21 Metformin Inhibits Mitochondrial Adaptations To Aerobic Exercise Training In Older Adults

2023-04-04 The Essential Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, and Natural Remedies

2023-03-18 Exercise More Effective for Depression and Anxiety Than Medication?

2023-01-24 Can extreme exercise damage the heart? With Dr Benjamin Levine

2022

2022-10-22 This Is More Important Than Walking 10,000 Steps

2022-05-14 Origins of the Alta Alpine 8-Pass Challenge Double Century: The Mad Dog Death March Documentary

2022-02-15 'Extreme' Exercise, Atherosclerosis, Coronary Artery Calcium Score —  “Exercised, The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health”

2022-01-30 Science Daily: Researchers discover how lactic acid weakens anti-tumor defenses

2022-01-30 RealClearScience: The Ultimate Performance Enhancing Drug

2022-01-30 RealClearScience: How Regular Exercise Restructures the Brain

2022-01-01 Cardiac Stress Test Echocardiogram up to Max Heart Rate, with a Surgical Mask

2021

2021-10-27 Sebastian Rushworth MD: “Is intense exercise bad for your heart?” (a critique)

2021-08-21 Sebastian Rushworth MD: Does exercise improve cognitive function?

2021-07-27 Trying to Break Through Long-Haul COVID

2021-07-10 Dr. Satchin Panda on Circadian Insights into Exercise Timing, Melatonin Biology, and Peak Cognition

2020

2020-12-04 Long Haul COVID-19: “New York Times: Exercise After COVID-19? Take It Slow”

2020-12-02 Long Haul COVID-19: “JAMA: Coronavirus Disease 2019 and the Athletic Heart Emerging Perspectives on Pathology, Risks, and Return to Play”

2020-07-29 How Long-Term Endurance Exercise Impacts Your Genes: “Cell: Skeletal Muscle Transcriptomic Comparison between Long-Term Trained and Untrained Men and Women”

2020-06-07 Pseudo-KETO: Three Months on a Low Carbohydrate and Low Sugar Diet

2020-05-28 Ultra Endurance Exercise: Nutrient Deficiency in Magnesium, Iodine, Iron, Copper, Zinc, Selenium, Chromium? (Tailwind Endurance Fuel Boosts Me)

2020-04-28 The Ongoing Disinformation Campaign by the Medical Establishment: Context-Dropping and Lying by Omission about Masks

2020-04-10 Evicted from Alabama Hills: Security Theater Brought to Bear on Health

2020-03-04 Southern Inyo Double Double Century

2020-03-02 Mayo Clinic: Extreme Physical Activity May Increase Coronary Calcification, But Fitness Still Prevails (“Hearts of Stone”)

2020-03-02 Reader Comment: Heart Health and Diet

2020-02-19 Relationship Between Lifelong Exercise Volume and Coronary Atherosclerosis in Athletes

2020-02-15 Can an Extreme Endurance Athlete Have an Early Heart Attack? CT Coronary Calcium Scan, HDL Cholesterol, LDL Cholesterol, Statins, Atherosclerosis, etc (UPDATE with a cardiologist viewpoint)

2019

2019-06-30 Science News: Gut microbes might help elite athletes boost their physical performance

2019-03-18 Commentary on Sodium Supplementation during Prolonged Exercise

2019-03-14 Sodium and Electrolyte Losses During Prolonged Exertion

2019-03-12 Experience Report: 2019 Joshua Tree Double Century

2019-03-12 Experience Report: 2019 Southern Inyo Double Century

2019-02-28 Southern Inyo Double Double Century

2019-02-02 Various Interesting Health Findings in Science Daily: Exercise and Hidden Fat, Extreme Exercise and Heart Disease, Fasting, Brain and Fasting, Peripheral Neuropathy

2018

2018-07-25 The Best Performance Enhancer for Cycling: Drafting

2018-07-06 Counting Up My Double Centuries and Double Centuries in 2018

2018-07-05 Exercise may be best medicine to treat Post-Concussion Syndrome

2018-06-30 Finished: Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge

2018-06-29 Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge

2018-06-20 2018 Terrible Two Double Century: Good and Terrible

2018-05-21 2018 Davis Double: Strong Headwinds, Moderate Heat, Force of Will Gets it Done with a Little Help from a Pool and Ice

2018-05-12 Central Coast Double Century: Won Highland Route, Exactly 8 Weeks After My Crash/Concussion

2018-05-07 Extreme Exercise May Induce Low-Level Atherosclerosis

2018-04-20 Emerging Research Shows that Health and Wellness Starts with Diet and Exercise and Sleep

2018-03-12 Counting Up My Double Centuries

2018-03-12 2018 Double Century #2: Joshua Tree Double Century in Twenty Nine Palms, CA

2018-03-12 Benefit of Cycling as Aging Progresses: Stronger Immune System, Muscle Tissue 30 Years Young

2018-03-09 Poor Customer Service Not Good for Any Business — Double Centuries Included

2018-02-28 Thoughts on Recent Training, What I’ve Learned and What Remains to Learn

2018-02-24 2018 Double Century #1: Camino Real Double Century in Irvine, CA

2018-02-04 Double Century Schedule for 2018

2018-01-25 How is Drafting in a Paceline Different from an Electric Motor?

2018-01-01 Double Century Schedule for 2018

2017

2017-06-03 Completed: 2017 Eastern Sierra Double Century

2017-04-01 Completed: Southern Inyo Double Century, and Using a Face Mask for Dust

2017-02-24 Completed: Camino Real Double Century

2016

2016-09-24 Heart Damage from Excessive Endurance Training?

2016-07-19 Exercise Helps You Get in Shape for Old Age

2016-06-18 Next Up, the Toughest Double Century of all: Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge

2016-06-17 Iodine Deficiency from Exercise

2016-06-17 2016 Eastern Sierra Double Century: a Win in Spite of Extreme Conditions and No Aid at the Worst Section

2016-06-17 Properly timed exercise aids memory

2016-05-28 How is Drafting in a Paceline Different from an Electric Motor?

2016-04-16 Are Grains the Culprit in Health and Weight? Is 'Wheat Belly' a Crackpot Diet? (UPDATED through 29 April)

2016-04-06 2016 Solvang Spring Double Century

2016-03-14 2016 Southern Inyo Double Century and Joshua Tree Double Century

2015

2015-07-17 Veloflex Vlaanderen Tubular 700 X 27C: Putting to the test for Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge

2015-04-03 External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis and Leg Pain in Cyclists

2015-03-22 Three Double Centuries, a Week Apart

2015-02-22 Aggressive Start to 2015: Two March Double Centuries Planned, Maybe 3

2015-02-21 Fitness Pre-test for a Double Century

2014

2014-11-13 Exercise Has More Than Physical Benefits

2014-04-17 Younger Skin Through Exercise?

2014-04-01 Panda Licorice Powers Me Through the Solvang Double Century

2014-03-24 Solvang Spring Double Century — Results

2014-03-18 Solvang Spring Double Century

2014-03-16 To Draft or Not to Draft: What Does it Accomplish?

2014-03-09 First Long/Hard Ride in Preparation for Double Century

2013

2013-02-07 Are Your Risking Intestinal Damage by Using Ibuprofen During Exercise?

2012

2012-07-02 Recovery from a Double Century (normally not bad, a virus is no fun)

2012-07-01 Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge Double Century, 1st Finisher, 2nd Place

2012-06-23 Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge Double Century, 20,300' Ascent on June 30

2012-06-15 Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge Double Century, 20,300' Ascent on June 30

2012-06-05 Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge Double Century, 20,300' Ascent

2012-05-07 HDL Cholesterol and Body Fat

2012-04-29 Devil Mountain Double Century: 206 miles and 18,870+ Vertical Feet

2012-04-24 Devil Mountain Double Century: 206 miles and 18,000+ Vertical Feet

2012-03-28 Solvang Spring Double Century Performance Analysis

2012-03-28 Solvang Spring Double Century Experience Report

2012-03-22 Solvang Spring Double Century

2012-03-14 Power Output During the Death Valley Double Century — Possible Explanations

2012-03-09 Analyzing Power Output During the Death Valley Double Century

2012-03-06 Death Valley Double Century As a Self-Supported Ride — DONE!

2012-02-23 Nutrition for a Double Century

2012-02-23 Death Valley Double Century As a Self-Supported Ride

2012-02-22 Comfy Tires for a Double Century

2012-02-17 Endurance Energy Source with Protein

2011

2011-06-19 Stats This Year