Training & Nutrition Tips

So you have a bike and you have goals. How do you put the two together to make it to game day feeling fierce? We got you.

We’re partnered up with Source Endurance as our coaching and training partner for 2024. FoCo Fondo organizer Zack Allison has also been a cycling coach for this top notch coaching business for over a decade. You’ll find that every single coach has both a Bachelor’s degree in the field at minimum, along with extensive practical experience. There is comfort knowing they know how to help you manage your goals along with work-life balance. It’s all about that balance, amirite?

Be sure to check out their Cycling Webinar Summer Series: Perform Your Best This Summer which covers heat acclimation, racing at altitude, fueling for long events, and pacing for long events.

Source Endurance Coaching

Check out the FoCo Fondo Training Plans

Purchase the FoCo Fondo Training guide here (scroll down to merchandise). This all inclusive training guide includes unreleased course info, nutrition, equipment recommendations AND a free month of the Dynamic plan OR a free static training plan. Here is the new dynamic plan, that is customized and has many interactions with Source Endurance head coach Adam Mills. The Dynamic plan features tapers around Colorado Summer of Gravel Series events. Here are the Source Endurance static plans.

Kristen Arnold MS, RDN, CSSD is a level 2 USA Cycling coach for Source Endurance as well as a Registered Dietitian specializing in sports nutrition. She lives in Fort Collins, CO, but has athletes all over the country. She’s offered her tippie top fueling and hydration tips for FoCo Fondo riders.

Fueling and Hydration Guide by Kristen Arnold MS, RDN, CSSD

First Endurance- Try it out ahead of game day

First Endurance offers premium sports nutrition focused on the endurance athlete. They spare no expense in developing the best, cutting-edge, scientifically validated, high-performance racing formulations. We want the best for you come event day too! Plan on First Endurance Hydration Drink Mix as well as Liquid Shot gels at FoCo Fondo aid stations, as well as training rides.

The Cyclist-Lawyer

Megan Hottman and Andrew Phillips hope to never hear from you... that's because if you need us, the unthinkable has happened: you've been hit while riding your bike.  

TheCyclist-Lawyer.com represents injured cyclists and advocates for safer cycling.  If you need us, we'll be here for you.  Together, Hottman & Phillips have nearly 40 years of combined personal injury experience and have successfully handled several hundred cycling cases.  Hottman (along with co-counsel Kaudy) in 2022 obtained a record-setting verdict at trial of $353Million in the wrongful death case involving her friend and teammate Gwen Inglis.  This, just six months after Hottman herself was hit and badly injured by a motorist in June 2022 ... so to say "we get it" when you contact us, would be an understatement.  We eat, sleep and breathe cycling in all of its forms, from commuting to recreational rides, gravel races and adventures galore...  we are, THEcyclist-Lawyer.   And we'll see you at the Foco Fondo and many other amazing cycling events this season! 

Promoter Zack Allison also runs Bike Sports Fit Studio which operates by appointment only at Brave New Wheel in Old Town, Fort Collins. Bike fits are an integral part of your cycling experience and longevity. From the moment you sit on a bicycle, you’re thinking about how you feel on it. Saddle pressure, bar drop, hand pressure. There’s so many variables that its almost impossible to get it all right without a second set of eyes. That’s where bike fitting as a service comes in.

Bike Sports: Bike Fits

TheCyclist-Lawyer.com has assembled some education pieces for us to cover best practices from both the preventative-coverage side as well as should the unthinkable happen: