We asked one of our superstar members of the Specialized-lululemon cycling team to share with us what is going through her mind at the beginning of yet-another busy season of racing. Meet Gillian Carleton, a track cyclist from Victoria B.C. who we think is just the cat’s pyjamas (she also has the best hair ever!) [...]
5:37:34 This is the time it took Kat, our junior people program manager, to ride her borrowed steel bike from Vancouver to Whistler in her first GranFondo in 2011. 4:00:00 The time she set her sights on to complete the same grueling course in 2012. How was she going to knock an hour and 37 [...]
“Everyone has weaknesses. I know what mine are and how I can move forward.” – Loren Rowney Remember being 17 and confused about who you were and what life was all about? Cyclist Loren Rowney does. We caught up with her at Specialized-lululemon’s recent training camp in Portugal to ask her about how she got [...]
WHY WE LOVE THISListening to your body when you are training and racing can be key to preventing injury and maximizing performance. Training with a heart rate monitor can help you strategically adjust speed or power, maintain pace and prevent overtraining. Instant, real time feedback during a workout can be the difference between burning out [...]
A small team from our Store Support Centre in Vancouver went and met the Specialized-lululemon women’s cycling team in Portugal for their pre-season training camp. Santa Monica-based yoga ambassador Mary Beth LaRue came along with the purpose of sharing a daily practice with these high performance athletes. Mary Beth shares her experience here. My first [...]
When one of our writers, Ella, isn’t making magic happen with her words you can almost always count on finding her on her bike. GranFondos, spin class, road biking – if it involves two wheels Ella’s there. We caught up with her to learn a bit more about her cycling habits and more specifically, why she [...]
There’s a reason that people pack their stretchy gear when they travel to a new place. Yoga mats and running shoes unite us, regardless of where we are in the world or what language we speak. To celebrate our growing international family of ecommerce sites which includes Australia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, I [...]
WHY WE LOVE THISBarre inspired classes can be a great compliment to your run training or yoga practice and an awesome excuse to escape the cold. My favourite part of the class is feeling like a ballerina (if only for a few seconds) when I pop my leg up on the barre. We caught up [...]
If one thing is certain about Kate, it’s that she’s hardcore and badass (no fake sweat was added in the filming of this video). A yoga teacher, spin instructor and Union Square ambassador – Kate is an inspiration. Check out some of her favourite things and learn a few fun facts about her. I love [...]
In this photo: Cydney Gurvich (surfer & yoga instructor) Give this girl a board, blow some wind in her hair and watch her come alive. Ambassador Carolyn Anne Budgell, has been an avid skateboarder, snowboarder and casual surfer since the young age of 15. Just imagine her delight when she discovered yoga and realized all [...]
