I should assume this was on a TT bike? Nice effort for a rolling course.toolonglegs wrote:Super happy... finally broke the 40km average (40.4) for my 13.2km rolling training loop even having to slow right up for traffic on one corner.
Followed it up with a 36.8 and a 37.3 loop at hard tempo. So a nice 3x20 today.
Hopefully adding in a skin suit / 80mm front / disc rear / aero lid and fresher legs than I had today will give me 42km's per hour... plus another months training to give me the 44 I really want!.
The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc)
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Postby twizzle » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:02 pm
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Postby toolonglegs » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:51 pm
Just working on my pacing... Shows me how much know a loop helps as I do this one quite often. Will spend a bit of time on the courses when I get back from holiday.
I have to finish top 6 in department champs in 4 weeks and place well in regional (5weeks) to qualify for the nationals on 30th sept. if the first two go well I will think about a frame.
Hopefully got a team skin suit and disc rear lined up.
Having never done a tt I have no idea where I stand... If it doesn't go well then no great loss money wise and I will be in a great place for the start of the cx season .
Still got a fair bit of weight to loose... But certainly getting there!.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby twizzle » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:11 pm
I find that, after doing a real TT, my quads hurt - but I can't seem to hurt them in training. It's difficult around here to find somewhere you can hammer for an hour, and we don't run many TT's.
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Postby toolonglegs » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:24 pm
All my TT's seem to be a around the 20-30km mark maximum... So 20 minute intervals are plenty for me at the moment... And I certainly feel it in the legs today ( especially as I am driving to Spain at the moment )
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Postby twizzle » Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:29 pm
Anyway, didn't really refuel last night after the ride home from work, I wasn't feeling that hungry... and then blew doing hill repeats this morning. Stupidly, I had ridden to the bottom of the hill for one final long climb, and given that the car was parked at the top I had no choice but to continue to the top.
Rest day tomorrow as I'm directing a race.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby Peacewise » Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:24 pm
Yep, another friggin flu - training is walking to the toilet to cough up a lung.
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Postby twizzle » Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:54 pm
Sounds like I am a safe distance away.Peacewise wrote:So at the end of todays training I am utterly spent, sweat pissing out of every pore, so hot, so drenched, so tired.
Yep, another friggin flu - training is walking to the toilet to cough up a lung.
People here just keep on getting viral pneumonia...
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Postby toolonglegs » Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:12 pm
Need to stop enjoying the food so much though!.
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Postby twizzle » Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:08 pm
Then again, it's only been -3'ish here. You can keep the French winter.
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Postby toolonglegs » Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:47 pm
Going to try and save some energy ( and brownie points ) and head inland a little bit to the hills I spotted yesterday... From the map the passes go up to 2000m and they look rugged!.
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Postby twizzle » Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:46 pm
Only eight hours of saddle time last week, which is disappointing, but I lost a stack of time in driving out to my chosen hill. In return for the lack of time, I ended up with one of the toughest training weeks ever in terms of intensity & HR.
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Postby toolonglegs » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:15 pm
Day off for me... Cooled myself yesterday after hammering a 10 minute climb ( for the kom of course )... 9% av ... Only to realize later that even though I got the kom I was doing an extra 400meters!... Doh. After that had some Spanish limpet jump on my wheel which was fine to start with but after 20 minutes it got annoying and I dropped him with considerable difficulty ( I am too good a wheel to follow ! )... After that I really suffered ... Spinning out in the 53/11 was fun though at close to 80, 40 av for the last 30minutes turned me inside out even though the terrain helped.
Another 4 days hard coming up before the 10 hour drive Saturday kills my legs again... The onto the tt rig for a few weeks .
All these sore muscles and fatigue better pay off in a 3-4 weeks time!.
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Postby vander » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:27 pm
What is your tip for getting your peddling right I know mine is horrible.twizzle wrote:Finally got my pedal stroke to come good... 300 - 350W suddenly got easy to maintain. It's been one of those elusive things over the years, getting all of the muscle groups to fire at the right time - at some point when doing hill repeats last week, it suddenly all came together. The next trick is to be able to 'remember' how to do this when I'm tired, which is when I usually resort to mashing the pedals.
Only eight hours of saddle time last week, which is disappointing, but I lost a stack of time in driving out to my chosen hill. In return for the lack of time, I ended up with one of the toughest training weeks ever in terms of intensity & HR.
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Postby twizzle » Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:40 pm
Not a clue, but the quads are now working from just prior to TDC and the "active" part of the pedal stroke is longer than it was before, meaning I don't have to drive the pedal as hard to make the same power. But I have no idea how/why... I'd had rides in the past where I could do this, but then the next time I rode it was be gone again.vander wrote:What is your tip for getting your peddling right I know mine is horrible.twizzle wrote:Finally got my pedal stroke to come good... 300 - 350W suddenly got easy to maintain. It's been one of those elusive things over the years, getting all of the muscle groups to fire at the right time - at some point when doing hill repeats last week, it suddenly all came together. The next trick is to be able to 'remember' how to do this when I'm tired, which is when I usually resort to mashing the pedals.
Only eight hours of saddle time last week, which is disappointing, but I lost a stack of time in driving out to my chosen hill. In return for the lack of time, I ended up with one of the toughest training weeks ever in terms of intensity & HR.
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Postby Peacewise » Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:11 pm
Feel fine, not 100% yet, not even close but yippy back in the saddle.
Those new campy gemini thermo bib tights are brilliant, warmest legs ive had all day!
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Postby Ken Ho » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:38 pm
I had planned to do an Audax ride in spring, but that won't be happening.
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Postby toolonglegs » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:50 pm
Really want to hit the big hills once but they all add up to 150km plus rides and as the sun only rises at 7am I can't really swing it on a family holiday!... And it is just too hot for me after 10am.
Hopefully the weight is still dropping... Food here is too good!.
Riding early mornings just isn't my thing!!!.
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Postby steve-waters » Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:21 pm
Where you live Twizzle North Pole?
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Postby twizzle » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:20 pm
Got down to -4.6 at Tuggeranong, was probably around zero at Stromlo. No hands, no brakes.skull wrote:Canberra minus 3 this morning I think.
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Postby jcjordan » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:55 pm
I hate the cold it makes interval effort so hard. For some reason as soon as it goes below 0 I just can seem to make sufficient power to maintain threshold for any longer then 5-6 minutes.
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Postby toolonglegs » Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:30 pm
Not getting many ( any ) TT efforts done but having fun exploring the countryside. Strava is great for hunting out the climbs!... KOM competition isn't too tough though... But I keep getting guys jump on my wheel and sitting there and not coming round to help, which of course means I have to drop them and then work hard to stay away!... All good training!.
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