Derny training in the country
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Derny training in the country
Postby Derny Driver » Sat Dec 19, 2015 4:58 pm
After that, a young kid I help on occasions met me at the velodrome and we headed off for a 2 hour road ride behind the moto. He is fine tuning for the Junior Track Series final round in Adelaide in a couple of weeks time. He leads the series so barring a mishap he should snare that title. After that he has track and road nationals in the next 4-6 weeks. We derny-paced from Wollongong to the base of Macquarie Pass and back in the 2 hours, along the country roads near the escarpment. I saw a wedge tailed eagle, a couple of black-shouldered kites, about 100 horses and a thousand cows. I would say that we had less than 100 cars go past in that time (most on the road to Macquarie pass) and all of them were extremely courteous. We held up one car over a narrow bridge and I gave him a wave as he came by, and got a wave out both the passenger and driver's windows in return. What a great place to live and train.
Saw loads of guys out riding including my friend Josh Berry with a bunch of Budget Forklift guys, they must be hanging out at his house so they can train in God's country too.
Hope the city slickers survived the heat and the traffic. Its a mugs game in the city.
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Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Sat Dec 19, 2015 9:42 pm
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby zill » Sat Dec 19, 2015 9:53 pm
Ride outside only for commutes, slow endurance ride, fast group ride or ITT on a popular strava segment (that will only be next summer when I'm much fitter).
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby ft_critical » Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:26 am
zill wrote:My main training ground is my lounge on the trainer!
Ride outside only for commutes, slow endurance ride, fast group ride starting at 11am or later or ITT on a popular strava segment (that will only be next summer when I'm much fitter).
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby zill » Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:49 am
ft_critical wrote:Fixed:
zill wrote:My main training ground is my lounge on the trainer!
Ride outside only for commutes, slow endurance ride, fast group ride starting at 11am or later or ITT on a popular strava segment (that will only be next summer when I'm much fitter).
You've got good attention to detail and good memory. Realised only a few months ago that there are good group rides in the evening.
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby toolonglegs » Sun Dec 20, 2015 4:21 pm
In NZ at the moment, rode a bit in the first week or so, got to admit I don't feel safe here... there might be loads of guys and girls out riding but personally I don't feel I get given the same amount of space as at home. But cycling is pretty big in my home town these days... having cycling NZ based in a small town with a big Velodrome does that. Man if I had had that when I was young
Sort of regretting not bring my mtb as I was supposed to be in Rotorua for most of the time... wifey been hospitalized basically off the plane changed that .
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Postby foo on patrol » Sun Dec 20, 2015 5:17 pm
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Postby toolonglegs » Mon Dec 21, 2015 5:40 am
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby gabrielle260 » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:46 am
TLL, I'm just catching up as I've not been active on the forum for a few months.... Very sorry to hear about your wife. Good luck with the chemo - I've had a relative go through it so have a small insight into how tough it can be.toolonglegs wrote:Cheers mate, fingers crossed she is out today... nasty virus on top of chemo. Hopefully we can now enjoy holiday . Might even get back on the bike . Typical I come to NZ in summer and don't ride while everyone at home is getting in at least 200km per week in the middle of winter!
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Postby dalai47 » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:20 am
My wife finished her chemo last month. Her rare Neuroendocrine cancer is very aggressive (grade 3 stage 4), so we have been told it will return in months to a few years. But we went to her Oncologist with a new CT scan last week to see if the chemo was successful and it was! No visible signs of the metastatic lesions which had filled her liver!
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Postby toolonglegs » Mon Dec 21, 2015 2:23 pm
That's great news dalai! ... be good to enjoy Christmas with that result.
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby mikesbytes » Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:11 pm
If I sold up in Sydney and brought near your velodrome I could retire
TTL, emailed you, we must be crossing paths and I've heard of the great velodrome they have built in the home town of your 1st country
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby Derny Driver » Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:16 am
Yes Mike there is a locked gate but you can park outside and walk in and use the track.mikesbytes wrote:DD, you need a key for the Velodrome? I don't recall a locked gate
If I sold up in Sydney and brought near your velodrome I could retire
The key allows you to drive in and use the track lights at night and use the toilets rather than the bushes.
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby Derny Driver » Sun Aug 21, 2016 6:36 pm
Wednesday arvo I turned up at the velodrome (Wollongong) to do my usual derny paced drills with the lady I am training. Almost simultaneously 3 other riders arrived, the current masters world points race champ had come down from Sydney to train with our clubs pair of world track champions, obviously for Manchester later in the year. As well as them, an older chap on a road bike turned up and jumped on to the track to do a few laps. So as he was riding around I just quietly motored up next to him and said gidday, and without any fuss we agreed to let the world champs do their standing starts and sprints on the bottom of the track, I would motorpace my rider at 45kph in the middle of the track, and the roadie guy was happy to ride the top of the track where the blue line is.
I thought that was a very cool thing, 3 different sets of riders with 3 different objectives all on the same track having fun together. On my left was 3 Australian and world champions training for Manchester, on my right some random dude doing 20kph on his old road bike. Thats cycling for you.
Today I was back at the track and did our usual drills with the lady rider, then after that I headed off to meet an NRS rider on the road for a 2 hour session (100km in 2 hours - yep). Anyway we were flying along at 50kph and we passed a hairy legged old punter on his MTB flogging away into the headwind at about 10kph. We went 6km further then turned and cam back, doing about 55kph with the tailwind. The MTB chap coming towards us let fly with a huge wave and a big grin as we simultaneously gave him a wave. Again, you couldnt get 2 more different riders but it was that wonderful friendliness that comes from having the same love - bike riding.
Thats one of the things I love about cycling. Anyone who rides a bike, any sort of bike, has that connection.
Sort of like this forum. So many people from different backgrounds, different experiences and ideas, yet we all share that common love of bikes.
Thats my thought for the day haha
Cheers
DD
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby trailgumby » Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:03 pm
When you said "let fly with..." I was thinking "oh, dear" and expecting the next words to be "a torrent of abuse" ... but then you said something completely unexpected.
It is indeed a wonderful part of cycling.
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby Derny Driver » Sun Jun 18, 2017 5:56 pm
So its nice when the results come through, as they always do.
After quite a few 4 hour Saturday morning pacing sessions I got the text from Nationals, saying the guy I was helping has just won the u19 National Road Race. (He also ran 3rd in the TT).
Now we have a bit more work to do in the lead up to the Junior Commonwealth Games.
There's a reason why all the Pro's motorpace.
It works.
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:42 pm
I'll be back in Sydney next week for a couple of days, have some aero testing to do at DGV. Weather permitting I'm going to have a ride on Thurs morning in Centennial with some old mates before heading home again. I sure have no desire to ride the streets of Sydney again.
Not sure we'll do any motopace work here but it sure would be fun. Having said that at the local track they run a derny which is more my style!
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby g-boaf » Sun Jun 18, 2017 6:57 pm
I've come across NRS riders who are very easy going, friendly. Me and someone else were just out riding, minding our own business and got a friendly wave from him going the other way. And other times as well. Never did quite work out exactly who the rider was, but it does make a good impression for the team (which is one of the well known ones).Derny Driver wrote:Sort of like this forum. So many people from different backgrounds, different experiences and ideas, yet we all share that common love of bikes.
Thats my thought for the day haha
Cheers
DD
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Re: Derny training in the country
Postby vander » Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:38 pm
NRS riders are no different to anyone else. It upsets me when they act all cliquey and are not friendly. I do understand it can happen sometimes unintentionally just because they dont know the other people.g-boaf wrote: I've come across NRS riders who are very easy going, friendly. Me and someone else were just out riding, minding our own business and got a friendly wave from him going the other way. And other times as well. Never did quite work out exactly who the rider was, but it does make a good impression for the team (which is one of the well known ones).
Totally agree about Sydney roads they are quite testing.
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