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Welcome to the ABCC
If cycling coaches are what you are looking for because you feel the need for improved training, or you are a practicing or prospective cycle coach, then welcome to the web site of the Association of British Cycling Coaches. Training - on and off the bike - has been the life blood of the Association of British Cycling Coaches since 1974, so there is a wealth of experience and expertise available to all those who need it. We provide coaching and training programs in all the different branches of this challenging and interesting sport, and also work with those who simply want to get fitter to better enjoy their touring and social cycling. There's much here to see that's very interesting so welcome aboard.
Ramin (Ray) Minovi
It is with great sorrow that we record the death of Ramin Minovi, ABCC Senior Coach and long-time editor of the ABCC "Cycle Coaching" magazine, who died on 5th September. Ray was a cornerstone of the ABCC since he took over the magazine some 15 years ago, a publication that has earned him world-wide acclaim. Also, as editor of the 'Veteran Leaguer' magazine for the League of Veteran Racing Cyclists, his prolific writing and valuable coaching advice reached a very wide cycling audience.
Here is a tribute to Ray from his club, the Warwickshire Cycling Club. And here are many more tributes.
Featured Articles
Working On Your Sprint
A century of competition has shown us that a finishing sprint is an invaluable asset for a roadman. It’s not just the finish either: you’ll want to bridge gaps, go for the occasional prime, perhaps. [click title for more]
High Performance Interval Training
The UK’s fastest short distance time triallist had a stunning season in 2001. His coach reveals some of the thinking, training and pain behind the success story. [click title for more]
Maximising Your Immune System
Sore throats and flu-like symptoms are more common in a thletes than in the general population. There is some evidence that this is due to a depression of immune system function in these individuals. [click title for more]
How To Ride a 12hr Time Trial
A former national 12hr champion said that the best way to ride the event was to use a schedule that kept the speed at a conservative level for at least the first 100 miles. But what is the best way to compile a schedule, and how do you decide what a rider is capable of doing? [click title for more]
Training on a Dailey Basis
Former National Coach Doug Dailey’s three-year case study of one rider serves as a useful model of phased training. [click title for more]
Cycling Books
One More Kilometre and We’re in the Showers Hilton’s atmospheric accounts of the classic races reflect knowledge of geography, buildings, social history and culture. Despite his classlessness, Hilton is a traditionalist. Cycle races, he opines, belong to newspapers and not TV companies. [click title for more]
Biographies
The Elusive Robert Millar We still don’t know all about Millar, but now we at least know enough to perceive and understand something of the real man beneath the journalists’ accounts of a kind of cycling hermit. [click title for more]
Cycling Performance
Recovery interval on multiple-bout sprint cycling performanceResults indicate that Cr supplementation is effective in improving recovery from repeated sprint cycling performances when the recovery interval is of a short (<6 minutes) duration. [click title for more]
Coaching Practice
On the ethics of elite-level sports participation by children What defines ethical behaviour, particularly as it applies to children in elite sports? [click title for more]
General Interest
Counting the Cost For grandad and grandmother, backing their eldest grandchild means an end to weekends in bed, and an introduction to a new world where for holidays read driving all over the country from one muddy field or forest to another, of boring the rest of the family with tales of cycle races. [click title for more]
