About The Long Ride™ (TLR)
A publication for the next forty years
The Long Ride™ is a weekly editorial for men in their forties, fifties, and beyond who still lift, still ride, and still expect to be doing both of these activities well into their seventies and eighties.
TLR publications are written for men:
Who have begun to suspect the training advice he absorbed in his twenties is no longer serving the body he has now.
Who is starting to feel the small accumulating signals of a system that needs to be approached differently.
Who desires to keep training seriously, but not the way the rest of the fitness industry wants him to.
I am in my mid forties and have been riding road and mountain bikes for 35 years and lifting weights for nearly that long. I have made most of the mistakes I now write against.
The Long Ride™ publication is what I wish I had been reading at thirty-five!
What to expect from TLR
The Long Ride™ is organized around five pillars
The Lift - Strength training built around the trunk, the hips, and the posterior chain, designed to be sustainable across decades.
The Ride - Long, patient, mostly-zone-two cycling for masters athletes who care about the next forty years more than the next race.
The Plate - Eating in a window, cooking your own food, following mostly the Mediterranean Diet, never optimized.
The Mind - The inner work that almost no one in fitness culture takes seriously, drawn from the lineage of Nuno Cobra and Ayrton Senna, among others.
The Craft - The quiet pleasures of a well-built practice: the bike, the kitchen, the chair in the corner where you sit each morning.
The five pillars are not separate. These pillars are the same practice approached from different angles. A man who lifts well, rides well, eats well, and sits well in the morning is not doing four things. He is doing one.
Weekly:
Sunday - TLR Training Session Week’s Game Plan and Prior Week’s Debrief You will receive a compact list of my planned week's training, eating, and inner-work commitments. I provide insights (my why) behind the week’s structure comprising what I am building towards, lessons learned from the previous week, and what the current season is asking for. Detailed week’s day by day mediation, yoga, fitness (anaerobic and aerobic) activities focusing on consistency principals and fundamentals for long term health and fitness. (paid)
Wednesday - The Far Side of 40
You will receive foundational philosophical publications focusing on applying consistency principals in everyday life, mental, and physical fitness. If all you ever read is the Wednesday essay, you will receive the heart of what I am doing here. (free)
Monthly:
TLR Mobility Dossier Series - long form routines focusing on a body region written like reference material you can come back to anytime with clear, practical step by step guidance (some free, some paid)
Sunday’s Plate - My favorite whole food’s recipes including meals on travel, pre-made meals for time savings, keeping healthy eating for the next forty simple and convenient. (paid)
More Perks:
Unlock the Archive (instant access to past premium content, downloads, & challenges)
Chat Access with The Inside Line membership. Chat with myself regarding routines, food recipes, etc.
Everything is designed to be used, revisited, and built into your routine!
For paying subscribers, there is The Inside Line™. The name is taken from racing the line through a corner that produces the fastest time, available only to drivers who have committed to the apex. It is also a publishing term: the writing reserved for those who have committed to the work.
A month from now, your days can feel more put together, your routines more natural, and taking care of yourself less like something you have to figure out. That change comes from having the right structure to follow.
Join The Inside Line™ and start building it!
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Five essays to begin with (Your First Reads)
Why I train for the next forty years, not the next forty days
The case for core-centric strength after forty
Zone two is not slow — it is the work
Eat in a window. Cook your own food. Stop complicating eating
Cobra, Senna, and the discipline of the quiet mind
What the publication is not
It is not a fitness influencer feed. There are no protocols, hacks, optimization frameworks, or before-and-after photographs.
There is no urgency. There is no pressure to begin anything by a particular date.
The forty years are long. There is no behind here. TLR is not a wellness publication in the contemporary sense. The inner work is taken seriously, but it is not separated from the lifting and the riding. The body is half the equipment and the mind is the other half. Both get trained.
If you are looking for the latest research summarized weekly, this is not your publication.
The advice here is durable. Most of it has been true for thirty years and will be true for thirty more. I draw on Pavel Tsatsouline, Phil Maffetone, Stephen Seiler, Nuno Cobra, the Mediterranean traditions, and a few older sources that have earned their place. The reading list is short. Most of the books are old. That is on purpose.
A note on the writing
The TLR publication is written rather than filmed. There are only videos for how-to movements, no podcasts, no faces talking to cameras. I prefer the written word giving preference to a photograph capturing the moving image.
The visual companion to The Long Ride™ lives on Instagram, where I publish photographs from the practice; the kitchen, the bike, the road, the chair without commentary.
The voice here is restrained on purpose. The Mediterranean inflection is on purpose. The slowness is on purpose. The publication’s theme is what it is recommending: a calm, sustained, unhurried thing that rewards patience.
If this is the kind of training, eating, and thinking you desire to be executing for the next forty years, you are in the right place.
The ride through life is long, begin where you are.
Cheers,
— Christopher
Founder and Writer, The Long Ride™
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By The Long Ride™
A publication for men in their forties, fifties, and beyond who want to stay strong, lean, and clear-headed for the next forty years — not the next forty days. The work here is built for duration physically and mentally. Designed to simplify what matters and elevate how you live.
Disclaimer
This space is for educational, aesthetic, and informational purposes.
It does not provide or replace medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Please consult with your own licensed providers as needed. Reliance on any information provided by The Long Ride™ is solely at your own risk. The Long Ride™ and its contributors disclaim any liability for actions taken based on this content.
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