Special Indoor Cycling Program

Excel in Cycling

 

EIC workouts are not “feel good, trendy” kinds of workouts, nor are they “indoor race-every-weekend workouts” conducted on a spinning bike or with CompuTrainers. EIC workouts are physically demanding and mentally challenging. Learning to ride like a smooth, technically proficient road cyclist means you must train like one. Your elite cycling coach, Pete Gladden, has amassed over 30 years as a competitive cyclist and multi-sport athlete, and nearly 16 years as a coach.

EIC classes are set up to accommodate six different ability levels, enabling you to train with your peers - road cyclists, duathletes, triathletes, mountain bikers and recreational riders. You will be riding your own bike on a stationary trainer in a very motivating environment where music is played through a professional sound system and DVD cycling videos are projected onto a 10-foot high wall.

Quick Facts about the program. . .

• Starting Date: Sunday 12/4/11 and will run for 12 Sundays (excluding Christmas and New Years)
• Time: 9am til 10:30am (note classes will start promptly at 9am)
• Location: UFit2 Fitness - Large Gym
• Participants will need their own bike trainer, bicycle and cadence monitor
• Optional Bike and trainer storage is available for the 12 week program
  
  

Pricing

• Drop in Rate for one class - $12
• Buy 12 class pass - $120

How to sign up

Book your classes online using the button below. Please note - payment can be made on-site with personal check, cash or online using Paypal.

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About Your Instructor

Over the course of the last 17 years of coaching Pete Gladden has sent what were 20 neophyte athletes to age-group National and World Championship events in the sports of triathlon, duathlon, and road cycling. He has also been an NSCA (National Strength & Conditioning Association) Certified Personal Trainer for the past 16 years and an Elite Level Cycling Coach for some 16 years.  

Pete’s been working for Summa Health Systems for the past 5 years as Personal Group Fitness Trainer, and enjoys sharing his passion for health and fitness with entry-level participants. By combining cardiovascular, muscular, and flexibility exercises in each session, Pete will have you involved and educated in the key areas of fitness during every class.

Pete has been a competitive runner, swimmer, cyclist, and triathlete for nearly 30 years, and is also an avid rock climber, mountaineer and trans-continental cyclist.

NSCA (National Strength & Conditioning Association) Certified Personal Trainer and an Elite Level Cycling Coach.

Running Accomplishments

• Has run 10+ marathons with a PR of 3:02
• 1/2 marathon with a PR of 1:22
• 10K with a PR of 37:00
• 5K with a PR of 17:21
• Ran as pacer for 1992 Mohican 100 mile ultra marathon winner Keith Heilman

Cycling

• 1998 Ohio District Time Trial - 2nd overall
• 1997 Ohio District Time Trial - 1st overall
• 1997 USA Masters National Championship Time Trial - 15th overall in age group
• 40K Time Trial with a PR of 53:39
• 200 miles in 11:36

Swimming

• 1650 with a PR of 22:33
• 2.4 mile with a PR of 1:03:14

Multi-Sport

• International Distance Triathlon PR of 2:08:26
• Half IM PR of 4:23:47
• IM PR of 11:54:19

Adventure

• Rock climbing, hiking, backpacking and Alpine Mountaineering for over 30 yrs around the world
• Completed a 2-person unsupported 6200-mile cycling trip across Canada
• Completed 2 solo 4000-mile cycling trips across the US
• Run Across Finland Relay (900 miles)
• Finland-Russia Running Relay (1000 miles)
• Mt. Biked solo around Iceland (900 miles)
• Rode solo around the Great Lakes
• Baffin Island 90-mile Backpacking Traverse of the Cumberland Penninsula
• Norwegian Alps and Svalbard (Spitzbergen) Backpacking and Alpine Mountaineering
• Solo Traverse of the Presidential Range in White Mts., New Hampshire in 10:01:13

 

Professional Photographer

Peter Gladden is a self-taught photographer. In 1992, after spending two years at Kent State University studying under the late Charlie Brill in the photojournalism department, Pete decided to forego more classes and jumped straight into freelance work with several sports magazines, most notably Runner's World, Running Times, and Triathlete Magazine. When several of the magazines requested text to go with the pictures, he soon found himself immersed in writing as well.

Within several years of freelancing he was traveling around the world filming and writing about such events as the Raid Gauloises, the Run Across Finland, Powerman Switzerland , the Finland-Russia Relay, and reporting on numerous cycling, triathlon and running races.