Training Advice

Train away fella, train away and name the track!

ps I dont race up hills

EVER

lee - are there any regular training sessions at PP over the winter??

no there is not I'm afraid, its hard to train there as its open so you get people playing football, walking their dogs etc

I have to do my training on a quiet country road, a touch annoying as I only live 5 Min's from the track.

shame! i joined mitre, so i guess i'll go out on some club runs with them. i'll put in some time on the turbo over the winter and maybe do some weights, and i'll be good for next season. Tracy Harris should be coming down to race too, i convinced him to give it a go... i've been convincing a couple more forum riders to give it a go next year too.

mitre seems a good club and im sure there will be plenty of training options with them as they have so many racing members.

They were doing some friday sessions down the track would be worth checking if they are still going?

We will also have try the track sessions before the season starts.

Will be good to see Tracey there, tell him to try and not fall off this time tho......

haha. he told me about his last trip to the track - think he wrote off a brand-new chas roberts on-route to the track the week after that crash. whoops... he has one of your old frames i think - a cliff shrubb??

oh whats he doing with that?

its ment to be at the track for new comers to use!!!

i think he got the frame from the bike store in worthing. from martin i think... i rode it at the track a few times - it's a cracking bike!

Train away fella, train away and name the track!

ps I dont race up hills

EVER

I don't train

EVER

that's a lie.

there will be silverware on your mantlepiece next year, Bring.

So is that your way out of never having to prove your boast that after just six weeks of track specific training you could beat me in a sprint omnium.........

shame was looking forward to it.

and I shall have tupperware in my fridge next year

When I was doing winter base miles on club runs, I'd still attack climbs in my own inimitable style - as 'max' as you get outside of competition. Even a handful of short intensive maximal efforts has a huge effect on maintaining your edge during the off-season, without risk of burning out by the Spring.

There are plenty of people out there putting the hammer down during winter crit series or cyclo-cross races (or roller races!) who manage to get podium places in the summer.

I think this mainly applies to seasoned athletes though, rather than people building longterm base cycling fitness/strength for the first time.

What I like doing (brace yourselves) is nurturing the inner zombie. I'll elaborate...

When training, I concentrate, very intensely, on form. I try to be as phsyiologically and psychologically self-aware as possible, sometimes focusing on individual joints or muscles or movements or mental processes, other times on combinations of these, and sometimes holistically. It's all a part of building a neuromuscular scaffold.

But in competition, I let go, relying on automatisation - the unshackled ability of the unconscious mind and unhindered muscle memory.

Well, that's how it goes on a good day. If I'm in a bad mood I can undo months of scientific training with the destructive power of my ego.

for someone who never trains EVER

you sure talk alot about the training you do....

Ruh roh.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

So is that your way out of never having to prove your boast that after just six weeks of track specific training you could beat me in a sprint omnium.........

shame was looking forward to it.

It was an indisputable hypothetical fact, based on absolutely watertight speculation.

All the other waffle about training was fictional - I'm a forum-only persona, although I do allow some alabaster skinned ageing hipster to use my nom de plume at public events, for a small fee. He's quite handy, and clearly has some raw talent, but there's no way he'd beat me up hills or in short explosive sprints, despite my refusal to train - EVER - based on the fact that I'm a Renaissance man with a passion for gastronomy, cinematography, metaphorical language, Celtic distillation processes, and making tapestries depicting classic scenes from cycling's golden age (the 1980s, obviously).

If I ever were to train, it goes without saying that my self-applied methodologies would quickly grab the attention of the Joe Friels and Chris Carmichaels (and Lee Poveys) of the sports science community, and be employed by all of them forever more thereafter, and with the royalties I'd open an organic cheesecake and single malt emporium.

But you're a good lad - you'll do well if you spend more time applying yourself, and less time goading cyber-caricatures. I'll happily give you a reference once you've got yourself sorted out :)

but i enjoy the goading ever so much ;-)

its what sprinters do, train very hard then laze about paying out on each other

but i enjoy the goading ever so much ;-)

its what sprinters do, train very hard then laze about paying out on each other

... and eating cheesecake.

Somebody mentioned cheesecake?

15" of pure evil :)

Marry me!

Marry me!

I do!!!

(but only if we can have this Champagne white chocolate truffle cheesecake as our wedding cake)...

On that walking tour I did, I learned that wedding cake design was inspired by this..

The famous spire of St Bride's Church
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/london-st-brides-church.htm

I knew that already, but thanks for sharing - we are husband and wife after all.

Sharing is caring.

(I'm going to do more of these wanlking tours so will be dropping more useless facts from time to time. I fucking love useless facts.)