Rollapaluza

Get on a turbo, 200rpm bursts for 20 seconds. Repeat after a rest. For authenticity, drink between reps. You need to handle 220+ to trouble the winners.

Most definitely not for me, but whatever floats your boat.

As already said. It's neuromuscular training you need to do. It's about the maximum recruitment of muscle fibres, not the strength of each one.

I was thinking, there are two things one can improve on, the racing itself or the pausing between each sprint.

Any thoughts on the latter?

2: Drink beer.
3: Pedal if you must

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Gotta get that mindset

And I naively thought Rollaz were about fun.

@Doutzki

Leg length discrepancy?
I try to push the same with both legs...........

sorry, post pub pedant humour.

Go to a gym and use their spinning machines.

This. Or use the standard gym bikes on the lowest resistance available.

Get on a turbo, 200rpm bursts for 20 seconds. Repeat after a rest. For authenticity, drink between reps. You need to handle 220+ to trouble the winners.

Most definitely not for me, but whatever floats your boat.

200/220rpm? We used to get 300rpm+ out of the gym bikes in Newport. We used to get some strange looks from the other 'normal' keep fit people who'd struggle to get out 60rpm

The most amount of efforts you do at the race is 5/6 isn't it? No point doing much more than that.

I seem to recall going through the results a while back, 220 average for 20-whatever seconds was what it took. Might have muddled my figures a little. Either way, completely beyond my mashing mindset so wrote it off and stopped paying attention.
Forgot to add for that extra super authentic touch don't forget to change your saddle height between reps, just to keep things interesting.

Laps of swains. that is all

BMMF is quite the Rollapaluzaer

Was.

and I would say Hill climbing accounts for most of his training.

No.

And I naively thought Rollaz were about fun.

FOOL! For me I'm just quite pleased if I make it past the first round and improve my time a little bit.

As others have said, it's quite an amusing concept training for an event that is essentially fun.

I'm going to organise a crazy golf ride when the weather picks up. Start your putting practise now kids!

Ride hard. Ride relaxed. Thats the key. Tension in the upper body restricts max cadence. Instead of trying to build strength and power at this point (the nationals start in a matter of weeks), I'd say try and work on leg speed.

Get a set of rollers and spin.
In order to get good at a specific event I believe you just need to practice and practice that event.

BMMF is quite the Rollapaluzaer and I would say Hill climbing accounts for most of his training.

And you'd be wrong.

I would say to get better one would need to improve leg strenth and work on have very smooth cadence and maybe work on core strength as well.

I have massive legs.. able to leg press entire countries into orbit.
I'm rubbish because I can't move these legs very fast. Leg speed. Leg speed. Leg speed.
If you have both, you should be racing on the track.

And you'd be wrong.

Well, whenever I say him training it was on the hills. Maybe this was due to me living by the hill that were being trained upon.

I have massive legs.. able to leg press entire countries into orbit.
I'm rubbish because I can't move these legs very fast. Leg speed. Leg speed. Leg speed.
If you have both, you should be racing on the track.

I am more of a climber than a sprinter or TTist (despite being unusualy heavy for a climber) and have always been relatively compatative on the rollers. Maybe this is due to a fine cadence (if I say so myself) helping spin (or mash depending on fixed or geared) up the hills or on the rollers. I DO find that climbing helps with this as keeping a steady and smooth cadence helps with the climbing. You also get the added bonus of spinning down the hill loosening the legs up.

I can pedal smoothly as well but get ragged upwards of maybe 150 which is no good for the rollers. When I was younger, singlespeeding or racing my average cadence was higher and top-end cadence faster. I think I've tended towards bigger gears and lower rpm in recent years. I climb by pushing the earth away from me...

I wasnt insinuating that you can pedal smoothly. So it was your hill climbing up in the UK that have caused all the earthquakes down here.

I think maybe the key to the rollers is actualy drinking as heavaly as you can, stumberly up on to the stage the pedaling untill someone stops you or you are sick.

I shaved two seconds off my time once I was suitably inebriated. Wasn't sick, but have never felt so close to death.

I used to try the second method all the time. As I said up-thread.. the rollers started getting in the way of the drinking.

Well, whenever I say him training it was on the hills. Maybe this was due to me living by the hill that were being trained upon

Well, you'd normally bump into me in September or something, when I'd be spending a couple of weeks getting a few pacey climbs done, ready for the HC season.

You also get the added bonus of spinning down the hill loosening the legs up.

That's the real reason, not the 'added bonus'. Climbing does fuck all for roller racing. Look at Povey. He can barely make it over speedbumps, but he's still good enough to only just get beaten by me on the rollers.

Look at Povey. He can barely make it over speedbumps, but he's still good enough to only just get beaten by me on the rollers.

I qualified at Rollapaluza once. Just once. Mind you, Clive qualified, too. It was a slow night a very slow night a very, very slow night.

I can't say I've ever trained for the Rollas. My usual tactic is turn up, drink to numb the pain, pedal like fuck till someone tells me to stop, try not to throw up. Seems to have worked ok so far (although I did throw up after the finals last year....that trophy was worth it! Haha)

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

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