How to Help Your Body Fit Better on the Bike with John Howard
We talk a lot about fitting your bike to your body, but there’s a lot you can do to keep your body healthy and help it fit in a more powerful position on the bike.
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John Howard
Cycling legend, author, and owner of John Howard Performance Sports.
John Kennedy Howard is a legendary American cyclist with world records in speed (152 mph) and endurance (539 miles in 24 hours). A three-time Olympian, Pan Am gold medalist, and Ironman champion, he boasts 19 national titles. As a top cycling coach, his School of Champions has produced over 160 national champions and multiple world and Olympic medalists. An accomplished author, Howard’s works include The Black Cyclone, a biography of Major Taylor — both inducted into the USA Cycling Hall of Fame in 1989.
John Kennedy Howard is the longest playing recognizable competitive cyclist in America. Howard holds world records at both ends of cycling’s spectrum of madness, Speed: 152 mph and Endurance: 539 miles in 24 hours. He was a founder of the Race Across America and finished 2nd in the race.
He has been a member of three U.S. Olympic teams from `68 through `76, won a Pan American Games gold medal, and an Ironman Triathlon world championship. He has 19 elite and masters national championships in road racing, time trialing and mountain bike. His career spans more 50 years and he is still racing in his mid`70’s.
John is a member of the U.S. Cycling Hall of Fame, as well as the Ultracycling and Triathlon Halls of Fame. He has authored four books and numerous articles on cycling. Over the past three decades, in addition to his pioneering work in bike-fitting, John has established a reputation as one of the country’s best cycling coaches. His clients have included cycling stars Brad Huff, Denise Mueller, Scott Tinley, Scott Molina and Mark Allen to name a few.
Howard’s School of Champions has coached over 160 national champions, 12 world champions and three Olympic and Paralympic champs.
A cycling journalist, Howard has five book titles and hundreds of articles spanning every facet of cycling.
He has authored six books on cycling including his latest biographical novel The Black Cyclone, the story of the first acclaimed African American sports hero, Major Taylor. Both were inducted into the USA Cycling Hall of Fame in 1989.
In his book The Black Cyclone: A Hero The World Forgot, John Howard brings to life “Major” Taylor. Researched extensively from original sources and through interviews with Taylor’s daughter before her passing, The Black Cyclone chronicles the life and times of the man who reigned as the U.S. National Champion, and then World Champion in 1899, and set Europe afire on the cycling circuit.
And in the most exquisite historic justice, John Kennedy Howard and Marshall “Major” Walter Taylor entered the Cycling Hall of Fame on the very same day in 1989.