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By: Ellie Wardell I want to kick off my Blog posting saga of the 2026 race year with a recollection of my Boston experience. After finishing the race and sitting in the memory of what once was, I wish I could bottle the feelings, emotions and visual/auditory experience of a Boston -
By: Ellie Wardell My name is Ellie, a new AM athlete signing this past June. SO happy to be part of this team and represent its message. A little bit about me: I was a former collegiate soccer player at Winona State University, now chasing new athletic adventures through endurance -
By: Kellen Siems One thing to consider when preparing for a cold weather run is what clothes you’re going to wear. The temperature should be taken into account, especially in fall and winter. To start, it’s highly recommended that you wear a base layer which would include any type of -
By: Jay Campbell A recent Scientific Triathlon podcast argued that the best predictor of average bike-speed on a flat course is watts per CdA. If your watts per CdA is higher than the rider next to you, you will beat that rider in a flat time-trial. [This is in contrast to watts/kg, which -
By: Nathan LaGest My name is Nathan LaGest. I live in Ortonville Michigan, I’m 15 years old, and a sophomore at Oxford High School. I enjoy school and I do well with over a 4.0 GPA. I have been in competitive cycling for 8 years and started because I was looking -
By: Raquel Torres Ashwagandha is an herb that has been used in traditional Indian medicine (Ayurveda) for centuries. It has been shown to have a number of potential health benefits. Ashwagandha has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety levels by lowering the production of cortisol, a stress hormone. Ashwagandha, one -
By: Katja Opfer My second Iceman marks the end of my second year on TAMJD, and I have been taking some time to reflect on everything we accomplished this year. It seems like I raced practically every weekend from April to November, adding up to over thirty races in four
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By: Miriam Bretzlaff I made a goal for the 2023-2024 season to expand my training and racing into multiple disciplines; and I am happy to say that I was successful in doing so. This year I began to take part in several Team Athletic Mentors road, gravel, and cyclocross functions which
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