Mt Coot-tha training
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:26 am
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Le Velo » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:47 pm
Outstanding effort, will have to have a crack at that if I can get over the boredom of the same scenery more than 4 or 5 times .....jasonc wrote:bah - strava did something funny to my activity, I went to edit and deleted it instead
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Went up Coot-tha yesterday, wet, miserable weather, had slick tyres on and back wheels was spinning every attempt off the saddle ..... went for a gentle pass a tad over 11min .... had to keep some legs for the rest of the ride which ended up being a 178km loop
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:44 pm
178kms is a big effortLe Velo wrote:Outstanding effort, will have to have a crack at that if I can get over the boredom of the same scenery more than 4 or 5 times .....jasonc wrote:bah - strava did something funny to my activity, I went to edit and deleted it instead
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Went up Coot-tha yesterday, wet, miserable weather, had slick tyres on and back wheels was spinning every attempt off the saddle ..... went for a gentle pass a tad over 11min .... had to keep some legs for the rest of the ride which ended up being a 178km loop
currently not going for speed, going for distance/repeats to get through this damn strava challenge
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Le Velo » Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:58 pm
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Mt Coot-tha training
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby dillonp » Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:37 pm
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form not quite there, need to drop a minute.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:15 am
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby hudnut » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:56 pm
I connected some dots thinking about it on the way home when he mentioned your name and you'd mentioned to me at the Moggill Rd crossing that you'd done lots of Coottha laps last week. According to Strava I went for a ride with Jason C this afternoon.
Pleased ta meetcha!
First crack at Coottha Front for me today. Garmin played up.
It didn't record the whole front, but then I'm sure I didn't average 900W along Sylvan road either.
I guess this means I'm going to have to do it again.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:18 pm
great to meet you. am sure I'll see you again - great to have another cyclist out therehudnut wrote:Hi Jason. So it was you riding with Brad on the way home today I guess.
I connected some dots thinking about it on the way home when he mentioned your name and you'd mentioned to me at the Moggill Rd crossing that you'd done lots of Coottha laps last week. According to Strava I went for a ride with Jason C this afternoon.
Pleased ta meetcha!
First crack at Coottha Front for me today. Garmin played up.
It didn't record the whole front, but then I'm sure I didn't average 900W along Sylvan road either.
I guess this means I'm going to have to do it again.
900w - sylvan rd. yes you did, you and mark cavendish
noticed you were using a forerunner, really don't know much about them. maybe there's a new firmware that improves performance!?
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Le Velo » Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:57 pm
Getting closer to the 9min target I am aiming at
Now where to find that 33sec? .... and loose another kg or 2 I think to help
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:07 pm
am still looking for a few seconds to get below 10 - haven't been able to get close to it again though...Le Velo wrote:Missed the bunch ride this morning so punished myself with a coot-tha lap at lunch and got a new PB with 9:33 ..... 1 st time back in about 4 weeks so happy with that.
Getting closer to the 9min target I am aiming at
Now where to find that 33sec? .... and loose another kg or 2 I think to help
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Le Velo » Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:37 pm
Might have to organise a rabbit to chase for the pacing I think to help ...... I figured that it took me a month to shave 24seconds so another month should get me closer to 9min ... (hope)jasonc wrote:am still looking for a few seconds to get below 10 - haven't been able to get close to it again though...Le Velo wrote:Missed the bunch ride this morning so punished myself with a coot-tha lap at lunch and got a new PB with 9:33 ..... 1 st time back in about 4 weeks so happy with that.
Getting closer to the 9min target I am aiming at
Now where to find that 33sec? .... and loose another kg or 2 I think to help
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby RobM » Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:40 pm
My friend has just started back up riding after some time off - so i coached him thru his first ever Mt Cootha attempt. He was on a heavy Giant entry level MTB with slicks. Rode up the back way and down the front. But proud to say he didnt stop once and made it to the top - 16mins, no records broken but a great effort all things considering. I had a good time sitting behind pacing him and giving him tips on cadence and relaxing the body/breathing.
Safe to say he is hooked - he totally understands the highs and lows of climbing. Lows of the hurtlocker on the way up, and highs of making it to the top and blazing back down. He didnt even hold it against me that i lied - i told him the back way was the easy way so i could prove to him that he was stronger than he thought
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:42 am
now that is cruel, i like itpunk_rob wrote:i told him the back way was the easy way so i could prove to him that he was stronger than he thought
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby njosey17 » Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:33 am
Completely exhausted after work, so it turned into a matter of survival halfway up.... Ended up being a 30 second PB!!! 10:46 going up the back, which I was quite pleased about.
I can see a sub-10 happening in the next few months....
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Fatrobo » Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:02 am
After originally starting this thread with a Coot-tha time of 16 minutes something I happen to come across the thread over a year later and its still going! Happy to say i got my time down to 10.10 on the day! So I smashed my original realistic goal of sub 11 minutes and was o so close to my unrealistic goal of sub 10.
Since the race though this year I needed something different to keep myself chasing that illusive sub 10 minute time so though I would try doing multiple laps every session at a medium pace then once in a while try a max intensity single PB lap and see if that helps. It has certainly helped getting me up every monday morning but have yet to test it out on my PB time. I complete the strava climbing challenge last week so i am hoping that will help as well.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Comedian » Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:20 pm
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby RobM » Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:20 pm
Remember to tell him the back way is the easy wayComedian wrote:I'm taking a mate over cootha for the first time in the morning. If you see a guy dressed in white doing orbits around a neewb climbing at 5KPH wave and say hi.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby marinmomma » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:06 pm
That's a good way to keep warm on a 5 degree morningComedian wrote:Well newbie survived! Good on him for giving it a nudge.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:12 pm
+1marinmomma wrote:That's a good way to keep warm on a 5 degree morningComedian wrote:Well newbie survived! Good on him for giving it a nudge.
i went up there for the first time since my dreaded week. knee has been playing up, so am on the cautious side atm
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Le Velo » Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:48 pm
1. 9:45
2. 11:03 (grinding on the 21)
3. 11:25 (grinding on the 21)
4. 11:42 )back on the 23-25, legs starting to burn)
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:05 am
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:10 pm
after doing an extended riverloop on saturday, I went for a hammer up there. I kept the cadence up, felt really good/consistent. but the time was crap
hopefully that was due to the amount of kms I've been doing and not my climbing going backwards.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
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