There's another cyclist in France as big as you and he rides for the same clubtoolonglegs wrote: Hopefully I can find a skin suit this week from one of my clubmates...
The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc)
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby Chuck » Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:49 pm
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:05 pm
I wish!.Chuck wrote:There's another cyclist in France as big as you and he rides for the same clubtoolonglegs wrote: Hopefully I can find a skin suit this week from one of my clubmates...
I am going to try and fit an XL skin suit from another guy in the club. I have to race in club kit so it's either that or normal gear but I keep hearing how much difference a skin suit makes!.
I have actually meet one other guy racing at Cat1/2 level who is my size ...but he may be bigger than me now .
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:49 pm
So a quick 27km loop at near full gas in a heat wave . Had to pace the first couple of k's to warm up so pretty happy with a 38.3kmph av with traffic lights and pesky cars!.
Heat isn't my thing though as I don't recover we'll and muscle pain stays around a lot longer. Here's hoping the heat wave breaks before the weekend!.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:40 am
Still wondering if I should hunt down a disc rear.
Anyway legs are still a bit tired but when I finished my 50kms yesterday on the TT bike I actually wanted to carry on hammering it.
Bit of recovery rolling needed to day and a leg freshener tomorrow and I should be right!... whether the weather will play fair remains to be seen but we will all be under the same sky.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby adrian_d » Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:19 pm
Down I went, very embarassing hahaha. As I was turning right and my right foot was still in the cleat (silly mistake). Lesson learn't.
Luckily no one was watching. I did manage to fall on grass so it wasn't that bad.
I cracked 46.3km an hour so the top speed is slowly going up. I would love to hit 50km one day.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:53 pm
40km " tune up " ride today. Ended up having a day off yesterday and legs didn't feel good because of it. They don't exactly feel fresh today either... so that may or may not be a good thing come tomorrow.
I did pedal hard on a short Strava segment that I haven't done since April... took 20 secs of 1.4km climb that I know I gave everything in April. Hardly got out of the saddle today and certainly wasn't giving it everything... looking good for next year . Although all my local climbs are done by a young kiwi who is over here racing for one of the big amateur teams and he is REALLY good ( some of his KOM's are better than the pro's ) ... so no matter how good I go I can always see that I am in the "punter " catergory .
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby nickobec » Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:20 pm
I have ridden that route over 100 times and do not expect to challenge my strava PBs unless feeling good and with 20kmh+ tailwind. Little wind, but surprised myself with top 10 times all the way up. Average 5% more power and aero wheels help, did a PB on the little climb. Return trip a little more sedate, but by then the wind had picked up and was a head/crosswind which mean new aero wheels made for interesting ride.
Today, just one lap of the race circuit (28km) on a singlespeed before attending to marshalling duties
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby twizzle » Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:06 am
PS, TLL... 95.0Kg after my ride yesterday... but I was probably still dehydrated.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby Peacewise » Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:57 pm
Finished feeling fresh and ready for coaching and squash training later in the day.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby wurtulla wabbit » Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:54 pm
I have sunset drive, little mountain and bald knob/maleny all locally and going to start on the local ones and work into the harder Lindsay road type.
I get bored doing the bigger rides.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:55 pm
Yesterday after my tt I had a fair bit of time to kill so I had planned ahead with the road bike also in the car ... Headed up into the hills for 50ks ( after i had recovered sufficiently ) for a look around a new area... Beautiful!... The choice of riding I have at hand is really amazing.
Plus I needed to burn off some excitement from my first tt ... Worked a little bit but I was still buzzing at 10 pm last night ( after a 9:19 start time )... Need to get out today as total days off after a hard day have me seizing up!
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby Peacewise » Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:57 pm
Felt exhausted after 90 minutes of squash training last night, just about fell asleep doing my (2nd set) stretches at 10.30 pm, but pushed through them and unfortunately woke myself up too much to go to sleep, ended up still awake at 2.30 am.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:53 pm
Quiet day today . Then planning hard day tomorrow before another mini taper.Not going to back off too much for this TT as it really doesn't suit me and I have bigger goals .
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Postby adrian_d » Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:19 pm
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Postby twizzle » Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:39 pm
But the drive controller just failed and wiped out the whole drive.
I've lost about 6 weeks of ride data (from the last local backup), and (more importantly), all my budget docs. Not happy, Jan.
Edit: managed to recover the latest budget doc! Now only partly unhappy.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby Lazyweek » Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:04 pm
Back squats 4 X 3 80 kg, then singles at 85, 90 and 95 kg
Push press 5 X 5 40 kg
Pullups 5 + 2 X 3, 2 with extra 5 kg
Pretty sure I could have squatted 105 kg for a single tonight. 95 kg felt suprisingly light. Don't want to over do, I'll just keep adding 5 kg to my working sets each week.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby Ken Ho » Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:30 pm
Hill rides x 3, ocean swims x 2, personal trainer session by 1, Mt Warning climb x 1, random weights and cruiser rides etc.
Bit sore and flogged out this arvo, but looking forward to a club bunch ride tomorrow.
I put the race wheels on today, I think I've earned a ride on them.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:47 am
Tuesday hammered out a 100k with big hill in the middle, aim was to keep a 30km average for entire ride ( 1500m climbing ) and get up the climb in 50 minutes... basically make it hurt .
Was maybe a bit keen after the crap tt on Sunday, had a great ride though. Kept a 35 av for the first hour then hit the climb at tempo. 53 minutes later came out of the clouds at the top. Bit slower than hoped but felt good all the way. Kept the pace up for the final 90 minutes but only scraped in a 29.3 av.
Had a leave pass to go for the club run tonight but pulled the pin at the last minute... would of been too much.
Rest of the week gotta go away for work... so hopefully can squeeze some riding in!.
100 km race on Sunday with 1750m climb... so going to get spat out the back
Anyway training is a bit up in the air at the moment as I don't know if I am training for National TT's in 4 weeks or not... major insurance problems stuffing everyone up. If not it will be time to drag out the mtb and start getting ready for CX season .
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby ozzymac » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:52 am
Are you sure it wasn't a mountain? Only 1500m.......toolonglegs wrote:Day off Monday.
Tuesday hammered out a 100k with big hill in the middle, aim was to keep a 30km average for entire ride ( 1500m climbing ) and get up the climb in 50 minutes... basically make it hurt .
Was maybe a bit keen after the crap tt on Sunday, had a great ride though. Kept a 35 av for the first hour then hit the climb at tempo. 53 minutes later came out of the clouds at the top. Bit slower than hoped but felt good all the way. Kept the pace up for the final 90 minutes but only scraped in a 29.3 av.
Had a leave pass to go for the club run tonight but pulled the pin at the last minute... would of been too much.
Rest of the week gotta go away for work... so hopefully can squeeze some riding in!.
100 km race on Sunday with 1750m climb... so going to get spat out the back
Anyway training is a bit up in the air at the moment as I don't know if I am training for National TT's in 4 weeks or not... major insurance problems stuffing everyone up. If not it will be time to drag out the mtb and start getting ready for CX season .
I thought my 450m was a hill, probably just a bump in the road in your area.
Cheers
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:58 pm
Strava gives it a Cat 1 rating ...14.7km, Avg Grade 5.4% and 800 meters from top to bottom ( top is 1000m ) ... all the figures are skewed though as it starts with 4 km's at 7%, drops down for 1.5kms then another 6.5km's at 7.5%... another km or so flat, finishing with 2kms at 8.5% ( including some rather steep bits up in the 20's ).
So getting close to a mountain I suppose... it was the biggest mountain in the world on February the 9th when it took me 90 minutes to get up, last 4 kms on hard pack snow at -15C at the bottom... coldest I have ever been, I had to stop twice to warm up on the way up ... an adventure looking back ( nearly 6 hours on the coldest day of the year )... but a bit foolish as well!.
The really big climbs are another 30km's further east like the Grand Colombier (16km's at 8.1%) and Mont du Chat ( with a section of 9kms (AT) 10% ) ... now they really hurt!.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby adrian_d » Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:11 pm
Wow that hill sounds awesome and scary at the same time. Would there be any risk if it was to rain while you were riding in the snow? Would your hands stick to the bars? I would hate to imagine having the cleats frozen to the pedals doh.toolonglegs wrote:It's just my local .
Strava gives it a Cat 1 rating ...14.7km, Avg Grade 5.4% and 800 meters from top to bottom ( top is 1000m ) ... all the figures are skewed though as it starts with 4 km's at 7%, drops down for 1.5kms then another 6.5km's at 7.5%... another km or so flat, finishing with 2kms at 8.5% ( including some rather steep bits up in the 20's ).
So getting close to a mountain I suppose... it was the biggest mountain in the world on February the 9th when it took me 90 minutes to get up, last 4 kms on hard pack snow at -15C at the bottom... coldest I have ever been, I had to stop twice to warm up on the way up ... an adventure looking back ( nearly 6 hours on the coldest day of the year )... but a bit foolish as well!.
The really big climbs are another 30km's further east like the Grand Colombier (16km's at 8.1%) and Mont du Chat ( with a section of 9kms (AT) 10% ) ... now they really hurt!.
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Re: The training thread: How was yours? (today/yesterday/etc
Postby toolonglegs » Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:49 pm
I actually quite enjoy riding in winter... Just takes so long to get ready!.
Ps... The main issue is a mechanical... Changing a puncture when you can't feel your hands at all ( and haven't been able to for a while ) is rather hard work.
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