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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:26 am
by jasonc
bah - strava did something funny to my activity, I went to edit and deleted it instead

re-entered

http://app.strava.com/rides/13772437

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:47 pm
by Le Velo
jasonc wrote:bah - strava did something funny to my activity, I went to edit and deleted it instead

re-entered

http://app.strava.com/rides/13772437
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 .....

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 :shock:

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:44 pm
by jasonc
Le Velo wrote:
jasonc wrote:bah - strava did something funny to my activity, I went to edit and deleted it instead

re-entered

http://app.strava.com/rides/13772437
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 .....

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 :shock:
:shock: 178kms is a big effort
currently not going for speed, going for distance/repeats to get through this damn strava challenge

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:58 pm
by Le Velo
Signed up for the strava challenge but not too focused on that, if I get there great if not .... I looked at the stats of the guy currently in first position .... 9000 metre elevation in 1 ride alone! 13 hours in the saddle ! ....just insane :shock:

Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:08 pm
by singlespeedscott
What was that done on? A moto?

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:37 pm
by dillonp
lovely evening up there tonight, no one around for a trip up after work and a nice silent descent, while my eyes were streaming of course.
http://app.strava.com/rides/13815202
form not quite there, need to drop a minute.

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:15 am
by jasonc
went for a hammer run this morning and dropped the chain (on the rear :!: ) at about 600m. just strolled up after that

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:56 pm
by hudnut
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. :)

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:18 pm
by jasonc
hudnut 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. :)
great to meet you. am sure I'll see you again - great to have another cyclist out there
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!?

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:57 pm
by Le Velo
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 8)
Now where to find that 33sec? .... and loose another kg or 2 I think to help

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:07 pm
by jasonc
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 8)
Now where to find that 33sec? .... and loose another kg or 2 I think to help
am still looking for a few seconds to get below 10 - haven't been able to get close to it again though...

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:37 pm
by Le Velo
jasonc wrote:
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 8)
Now where to find that 33sec? .... and loose another kg or 2 I think to help
am still looking for a few seconds to get below 10 - haven't been able to get close to it again though...
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)

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:40 pm
by RobM
Finally got out to Cootha again - have been concentrating on longer distance 100km rides, and the hill climbing has been kept to the occasional Mt Gravatt repeat set.

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 :mrgreen:

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:42 am
by jasonc
punk_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 :mrgreen:
now that is cruel, i like it

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:33 am
by njosey17
Went for a quick one after work yesterday evening in the dark.

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.... 8)

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:02 am
by Fatrobo
Well well well....

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.

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:20 pm
by Comedian
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. :mrgreen:

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:20 pm
by RobM
Comedian 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. :mrgreen:
Remember to tell him the back way is the easy way :wink:

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:05 am
by Comedian
Well newbie survived! Good on him for giving it a nudge. :)

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:06 pm
by marinmomma
Comedian wrote:Well newbie survived! Good on him for giving it a nudge. :)
That's a good way to keep warm on a 5 degree morning :wink:

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:12 pm
by jasonc
marinmomma wrote:
Comedian wrote:Well newbie survived! Good on him for giving it a nudge. :)
That's a good way to keep warm on a 5 degree morning :wink:
+1
i went up there for the first time since my dreaded week. knee has been playing up, so am on the cautious side atm

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:48 pm
by Le Velo
x 4 at the back today

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)

:P

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:05 am
by jasonc
thanks to the fast guy in the red jersey I chased up there this morning. did my fastest commute setup time up there.

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:10 pm
by jasonc
been doing a lot of extra kms lately. last week I did 365kms
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.

Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:12 pm
by RobM
Been hitting the hills lately, training for the Robbie McEwan Gran Fondo. Did 1500m climbing over a 90km ride on Sunday - Including a PB up Cootha of around 11:30. Slowly knocking the time down.