Winter Training in RP, Saturdays

Goold old sicknote!

Today we rode round accompanied by someone on a titanium track frame wearing a Rapha tweed softshell but who was not Dancing James......

Good session today guys weather was incredible. Absolutely loads of cyclists in the park too. Thanks for the overshoes loan Clive.

Goold old sicknote!

Today we rode round accompanied by someone on a titanium track frame wearing a Rapha tweed softshell but who was not Dancing James......

who is this fake?

Goold old sicknote!

Today we rode round accompanied by someone on a titanium track frame wearing a Rapha tweed softshell but who was not Dancing James......

I got my bike for £100 more than that jacket. Crazy. One day I'll be the knob riding around in Rapha.

Are you calling James a knob?

Really nice ride. Good to bump into Big Daddy Wayne and RickyMundo as well.

Interesting readings from my new for Christmas heart rate monitor.

I rode out to RP generally between 120 and 140 bmp.

I lapped generally between 140 and 160 bpm.

I rode home generally between 130 and 150 bpm.

Sawyers Hill took me to 161. The steep climb after Kingston Gate took me to 165. I got to 159 at the Ballet school and in the final sprint and 157 on the Strand after we had been diverted by road closures.

Given that I am 51 and deducting my age from 220, my rule of thumb max ought to be 169 and so I came pretty close to it but I suspect that my actual max is higher. What happens if you exceed your max or is max as high as you can go?

I can see hours of fun from this. Perhaps I should wear it to the Rollapaluza on 14 January and find out what my real max is.

I can see hours of fun from this. Perhaps I should wear it to the Rollapaluza on 14 January and find out what my real max is.

yes.

without a doubt

who is this fake?

yes, bring on the merino war. take off the goatskin gloves you two.

Given that I am 51 and deducting my age from 220, my rule of thumb max ought to be 169 and so I came pretty close to it but I suspect that my actual max is higher. What happens if you exceed your max or is max as high as you can go

It is almost impossible to go to your exact max HR and it is not that important anyway. More important is your Threshold HR, simply spoken the HR where your body can just break down as much lactic acid has produced in your muscles. The more your train the more power you can generate at your threshold HR. The value itself wont hardly be changed by training.
Best thing to find out on a bike is actually on a longish stady climb. You will find yourself working at threshold HR after a while almost automatically.

where your body can just break down as much lactic acid has produced in your muscles.

the human body cannot produce lactic acid
science over misconception

ok it should be lactate or more precisely L-lactate and not lactic acid but I think the main misconception is in linking high lactate levels during exercise with muscle soreness. maybe dogs can give a lecture on the topic at some point, where is he anyway?

chained to a radiator in the basement of the reynolds factory

Are you calling James a knob?

FFS you bunch of knobs, I am a Nasty Man!

Really nice ride. Good to bump into Big Daddy Wayne and RickyMundo as well.

Interesting readings from my new for Christmas cadence monitor.

I rode out to RP generally between 120 and 140 rpm.

I lapped generally between 140 and 160 rpm.

I rode home generally between 130 and 150 rpm.

that spinny gear for the win!

Clive for rolla champion

I got to 159 at the Ballet school

Ballet dancers always do this for me too clive.

maybe dogs can give a lecture on the topic at some point, where is he anyway?

chained to a radiator in the basement of the reynolds factory

That's awesome news.

who is this fake?

sitting down james?

yep, so who is it?

A clue

okay so now I'm off the sauce until the 1st april, I'll be showing my face at this for the foreseeable, what time do we usually finish as I've got a brunch appointment in clapham at 1pm, will we be done by then? Or should I try and push it back till 2pm.

let me know...

ps looking forward to seeing you all as I ride slowly behind you...

I'm in this week too, looking forward to it already.

Corny - it really depends on how long we ride for / how many laps we do / what RPM has planned... its also quite nice to sit down and have a coffee afterwards at the cafe.

its also quite nice to sit down and have a coffee afterwards at the cafe.

HTFU!

inside the cafe? that's for losers and london dynamo.
real men sit outside.

HTFU!

greazy - fiddy told me you love a bit of the skinny mochaccino, so come on down dude...

I won't be there this week, chaps, and so far as I know, neither will JC, so you may do as you wish, un-led and wild.

I suggest a steady laps, cos we'll be doing some speed training next week. WTFN