Not on my bike, but on the airwaves. Had a chance this week to chat with Dan Egan of boston.com on his radio program Edging the Extreme. Great opportunity to talk about the Pats Peak race coming up, but more importantly he asked some great questions about a lot of the preparation and strategy that goes into ultra-endurance events. Check it out!
http://www.boston.com/ae/radio/edging_the_xtreme/2013/06/greg_jancaitis_mountain_bike_f.html
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Monday, September 10, 2012
Catching up and wrapping up
Its been a long and busy summer. Racing has called for a lot of traveling. Helping put races on has taken a good chunk of time too. Its all been fun and wouldn't change a thing, but I'm finally getting a chance to take a breathe and catch up a little bit.
Most of my racing is done for the year. 3 National Ultra Endurance races since the end of July were a blast, but the travel was exhausting. I would seriously rather sit on my bike for 8 hours than sit in a car for that long... Without anything else really scheduled for the rest of the year I'm pumped to just see what comes my way. Of course that means that I've already got a century fundraiser that I'm planning on riding/working, a 12 hour race I'll look to be teaming up on, and some epic 50 mile urban/trail epic thingy that I have no idea how will work out, plus finally checking out the cyclocross scene. Did I mention that I don't idle well? The point is that nothing is structured and I'm kind of excited for that.
One of the great many things that happened this summer for getting into the coaching world was getting my first article published.
http://granfondoplus.com/content/overcoming-cyclists-posture
I was happy to have the opportunity to write for the site, which is newly launched. Whats great is they've asked me to keep contributing to their "tech tuesdays" articles, so no real chance to "catch up" its time to keep pressing on!
Most recently I spent the weekend in South Portland going through the League of American Bicyclists "League Cycling Instructor" certification course. It was a long, but really enjoyable weekend of practicing teaching road skills, bike handling skills, and educational modules. I'm excited about the connections that I've made and am looking forward to doing more work as an LCI, and to be working events as a representative of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
So I would say fall has arrived and I'm sure that at some point things will come to an absolute screeching halt. But for now I'm going to enjoy keeping busy, decompressing slowly from the craziness that was this summer, and continue to press forward with the opportunities that continue to present to me!
Most of my racing is done for the year. 3 National Ultra Endurance races since the end of July were a blast, but the travel was exhausting. I would seriously rather sit on my bike for 8 hours than sit in a car for that long... Without anything else really scheduled for the rest of the year I'm pumped to just see what comes my way. Of course that means that I've already got a century fundraiser that I'm planning on riding/working, a 12 hour race I'll look to be teaming up on, and some epic 50 mile urban/trail epic thingy that I have no idea how will work out, plus finally checking out the cyclocross scene. Did I mention that I don't idle well? The point is that nothing is structured and I'm kind of excited for that.
One of the great many things that happened this summer for getting into the coaching world was getting my first article published.
http://granfondoplus.com/content/overcoming-cyclists-posture
I was happy to have the opportunity to write for the site, which is newly launched. Whats great is they've asked me to keep contributing to their "tech tuesdays" articles, so no real chance to "catch up" its time to keep pressing on!
Most recently I spent the weekend in South Portland going through the League of American Bicyclists "League Cycling Instructor" certification course. It was a long, but really enjoyable weekend of practicing teaching road skills, bike handling skills, and educational modules. I'm excited about the connections that I've made and am looking forward to doing more work as an LCI, and to be working events as a representative of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
So I would say fall has arrived and I'm sure that at some point things will come to an absolute screeching halt. But for now I'm going to enjoy keeping busy, decompressing slowly from the craziness that was this summer, and continue to press forward with the opportunities that continue to present to me!
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Educational Talks Rolling Along
Held another installment of my "Getting Ready for the Dempsey Challenge" educational talks the other night. This was the fourth in a series of six talks that I'm doing throughout the summer at Central Maine Medical Center. The topics that the presentation series include:
This past week I got into the heart of the discussions covering "Rehabilitation and Cross Training". The talk built off of the aches and pains discussed in the previous talk.
I finally got some good attendance thanks to the assistance of the communications department at the hospital (I have a LOT to learn when it comes to marketing and putting myself out there!). It was great to see that I had new faces, returning attendants, and some medical/ fitness professionals come hear what I had to say. Since the first few events had a low turnout I'm working with the Dempsey Center to possibly come up some alternative dates to go over the talks again.
As the Dempsey Challege gets closer I'm hoping the interest in the next few topics will be even greater. Nutrition is hard- not only the science behind it, but more than anything else there is a lot of personal preference. So I'm excited to offer some insight on this, particularly in relation to nutrition for an endurance event. While the last talk is currently titled as going over mechanical care of the bike I may just leave that open ended for folks to ask whatever particular questions they have just before the Dempsey weekend. Either way, enjoying the talks and glad I got back into doing these after a year off.
April 16th
Bike, Equipment, and Fitting
May 14th
Commuting, Rules of the Road
June 11th
Cycling Aches and Pains
July 9th
Rehabilitation Exercises and Cross Training
August 13th
Nutrition
September 10th
Mechanical Care of the Bike
I finally got some good attendance thanks to the assistance of the communications department at the hospital (I have a LOT to learn when it comes to marketing and putting myself out there!). It was great to see that I had new faces, returning attendants, and some medical/ fitness professionals come hear what I had to say. Since the first few events had a low turnout I'm working with the Dempsey Center to possibly come up some alternative dates to go over the talks again.
As the Dempsey Challege gets closer I'm hoping the interest in the next few topics will be even greater. Nutrition is hard- not only the science behind it, but more than anything else there is a lot of personal preference. So I'm excited to offer some insight on this, particularly in relation to nutrition for an endurance event. While the last talk is currently titled as going over mechanical care of the bike I may just leave that open ended for folks to ask whatever particular questions they have just before the Dempsey weekend. Either way, enjoying the talks and glad I got back into doing these after a year off.
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