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@OldSkoolRacer
I did my first summer down at HH last year and must say i really enjoyed it, however i'm not a fan of anything over about 10 laps max (to which many of you are going to guffaw i'm sure!)
I come from a heavily involved background of track and field sprinting, competing at a national level for many years from being 7 years old to being 19 or so where i tore my hamstring in a 100m final, never quite recovered and went off to uni where drinking and getting a degree seemed to take over!
My PB's were sub 11 second for the 100m and sub 22 seconds for the 200m and after 4 years doing kickboxing at uni i moved to London and started riding fixed with a view to using my previous training as a solid basis down at the track. In a nutshell that 12 years of training was based around 20-odd seconds of max effort. I know this was a few years ago but i've never lost my fitness and i feel at home sprinting on a bike rather than mashing out miles and miles on end and i can potentially see a lot of similarities to sprint training on a bike and lot of the training i used to do.
I did attend one Monday night session where we did a 3 man team sprint which i really enjoyed, and i'm wondering what the score is with getting this sort of training on a regular basis? I'm at the point where i'm considering going to the intermediates solely for the half lap 2-man sprint event that usually happens at the start of the second hour and sacking the rest of the session off.
I can see the argument that the rest of the session is good base training but as an example i used to train "over distance" for the 200m by hammering fast 300m reps in a session. I'm keen to build on my fast twitch muscle and i just don't feel that doing 30 lap roatations is really helping me?
Any advice appreciated, i may be missing something obvious but am open to advice as i am pretty new to this whole track world!
Cheers,
OSR.