Performance coaching Bike+Body

05/09/2025

www.performancecyclecoach.ca is the new website address to go to when looking for experienced cycle coaching. Choose Prime Performance to reach your fitness, performance and podium goals. Choose Basic Performance to perfect a specific cycling goal. Request a Power Profile to guide your training. Contact us now to make 2025 the year that made the difference to your ride.

05/05/2025

Seems like so long ago now!

11/01/2024

It's official! BJ, Barb and John performance coaching for your bike and body, has launched! Two experienced cycling coaches are collaborating to offer a unique perspective to your training here in the Comox Valley and worldwide. Using the most up to date coaching tools and resources to fine tune your podium goals, your performance technique and your fitness for cycling. All 2 wheeled rides are covered from bmx to triathlon, and everything in between; cyclocross, gravel, road and track.
Sprinting, time trialing, endurance. Bike fit, cleats. Power profiles, FTP testing. And coming soon, resistance training guidance.
As the web site becomes updated with this exciting new program, contact me via the performancecoachingwithbarb.com phone number listed or John van der Vliet via FB messenger. The 2025 season is just around the corner and now is the time to prepare!

10/20/2024

How do you select a cycling coach? Is it their experience, years in the sport, their level of competition reached on a global scale themself or their athletes? Their personality, approachability, success rate! What are the important aspects to you? Consider these as you consider taking on your performance level to make your best vision of yourself as a cyclist. Do you know what that could be?...

How do you select a cycling coach? Is it their experience, years in the sport, their level of competition reached on a global scale themself or their athletes? Their personality, approachability, s…

05/23/2024

https://gofund.me/7a686bfd
We are 3 months away from this competition against the clock, how far can either of us ride in one hour. Derek is challenging Guiseppe Marinoni's record for the 80-84 yo age group!

Hi, my name is Barb and I’m fundraising to assist 2 athletes from Vancouver Island to compete in the … Barbara Morris needs your support for World Hour Record

05/07/2024

Cycling BC RR championships - have a category for 65+ males, but not for women? What's up with that Thrashers?

03/16/2024

When I as a coach, select a program for an athlete, how is the choice made for the direction going through the season, based on the goal for the individual? Coaches are the original AI, except that it isn't artificial, it is real! RI, real intelligence of the data provided, the intention for the athlete and their ability - then given that there is a specific progression required to enable that intention - moving through the development of the intention....

When I as a coach, select a program for an athlete, how is the choice made for the direction going through the season, based on the goal for the individual? Coaches are the original AI, except that…

03/13/2024

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/the-womens-challenge-the-toughest-race-ever/

Cyclingnews looks back at the Idaho race, one of the most groundbreaking events in the women's sport

04/17/2023

It occurred to me while thinking about the season and the training phase we are now in, as a LTR Learn to Race coach, that for many, they are racing to learn. Cycling is unique in the many different directions that we can take on 2 wheels, road racing for example! When you approach the idea of racing vs group riding or club riding, both of which are satisfying, you encounter a change in thinking....

It occurred to me while thinking about the season and the training phase we are now in, as a LTR Learn to Race coach, that for many, they are racing to learn. Cycling is unique in the many differen…