Training this winter

BMMF in 'ahead of the game' shocker again! :)

hill reps do work though.

Repped

They definitely helped my hillclimbing.

I was just going to allude to that.

I like the Mark Cavendish approach to training ... lots of bloody hard work and leave the science to scientists.

I just picked up the SPD-R shoes I bought off babydino from the Post Office.

I hope some of that old Povey creatine magic has rubbed off on them. Virtually brand new too. I definitely now have all the gear and no idea.

I like the Mark Cavendish approach to training ... lots of bloody hard work and leave the science to scientists.

Makes sense to me too, Obree was similar, I think. When asked about training Said something like "I ride up hills in as big a gear as possible"

^Thats exactly what I did last year. Only trouble was I damaged my knees and had overtrained come May. Thats why I want to try and be sensible this year.

I was riding up West Hill sitting down on a gearing of about 82 last January. My legs were fucking massive. But sime days I could barely walk :(

But you could sprint, and I bet that training helped. A good balance is prob the way forward. I was doing some laps of Regents park this morning and getting really frustrated spinning on a 69" I was breathing hard, so it was doing some good, but just wanted to really push some big gears.

HA. I was also doing laps of RP this morning. I was there from about 8.30 for 45 mins.
Fuck how cold was it? When I got back to the office my hands and feet were red raw.
I was even spinnier on about 64. My legs are nice and fast but yes I wish I could just put the pressure on and take the strain off. Must be good for you though. I think I may have got rid of my cold doing it

I was there 8.40 till about 9.25!
Freezing yep, I had ski gloves on and have wrapped gaffa tape around my toe warmers, oh and thermal ski socks.

We were probably going about the same speed and never caught one another. I was averaging just under 20mph

I just picked up the SPD-R shoes I bought off babydino from the Post Office.

I hope some of that old Povey creatine magic has rubbed off on them. Virtually brand new too. I definitely now have all the gear and no idea.

the ones on ebay??
I was looking at those but they went for a small fortune.

I have converted some shimano mtb shoes for use with spd-r for winter training, they work a treat.

You boys and your hills...

I'll leave it to Lee to opine upon hill climbing as sprint training ;)

I have been in America eating lots of food. Awesome winter training methinks...

I'm on target (or, er, track) for completing my goal of increasing my bodyweight by 10% between mid-October and mid-January. Nice and steady, putting on a stone in 3 months. Still on the same belt hole though :)

am envious of you guys out in RP today - how come? aint there work to do?!

Work in soho so just have to get up an hour earlier than usual, 4 or 5 laps, then work's just down the road!

anyone fancy doing some hillclimb repeats on swains lane/highgate? could do with a partner or two, helps with motivation!

I don't know why anyone would want to do hill repeats in ~zero temperatures. Can't understand you climber types.

No pain no gain!

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No winter hill reps, no exercise-induced asthma!

Whatever. This is my Rocky training montage stage.

whats everyone squatting? I'm going 5x6 reps at 140kg twice a week on top of the usual 40k circuit and one hill session a week.

I'm walking like a cowboy buggered by a horse most of the week

i always have problems with exercise induced asthma come winter. i get a crazy uncontrollable cough.

its not as bad so far this year, but i think im adapting to it as time goes on. does anyone know if theres anything i can do to to help avoid it?