Wed night Regents Park training

I'm going to guess it's for anyone and everyone. It's on the road and it's going to be a hell of a lot more relaxed than than the track!

I might come along and be slow. With the aim of becoming faster

I'm with you on that one.

Can we get the thread moved into the general rides section, rather than the track section then?

If it's not for trackies, it shouldn't be in the trackies sub forum?

That's a good call. Has anyone asked VB yet?

And then get one back in the track forum for people who actually ride track. Some of us have some real training to do.

Right, first: apologies for calling all west londoners posh scum last night. Long weekend and too much booze. Some of my best friends are from west london, and not all of them scum.

Secondly, the idea of this is to do some hard, fast race training to keep up racing legs and lungs until the end of the Herne Hill season and omniums (end of Sept) as evening track training is pretty much finished. I personally will be pushing it as hard as possible for 1 or 1 1/2 hours. Fast-ish laps with a sprint every few laps, then riding hard instead of easy recovery.
Anyone can come. fixed or geared road bike, and can drop in and out of laps if needed. I have posted this in the trackies section as it specifically training for the track. This isnt about fun, it is about hurting my legs. I'll be there from 6.30 ish. Others might be there earlier or later. Or I might be on my own.
If people do come along and it carries on throughout the winter, as I will be, It'l become gentler until early spring.

Regents Park Outer Circle is an incredibly boring experience on your own - the urge to quit after 30 mins, and go and watch some paint dry instead, is hard to ignore. The second half hour isn't so bad, as you're more focussed on riding through accumulated discomfort.

Not so bad in a group.

My point exactly Tom. I was trying to 'very subtly' say, this is trackie training, for people who ride the track regularly, and properly, not random nodder riding, for people who want a social jolly, there are plenty of those already.

It's on the road and it's going to be a hell of a lot more relaxed than the track!

You have obviously never ridden with Tom.

it sounds like endurance training. winter miles is what i am after so this could be a gooer for the next few months - is it lit during the late winter months???

Apologies, I misunderstood what this was meant to be. In that case I will put my tougher legs on tomorrow before I come out. I'll try to keep up but will probably drop off the back as it's my first attempt at training.

I think also if you want to do proper wheel sucking like on a track, I don't feel as safe behind someone on a freewheel as there can be a tendency to stop pedaling which can be quite dangerous. You know how close us trackies like to keep on the front wheel.

Regents Park Outer Circle is an incredibly boring experience on your own - the urge to quit after 30 mins, and go and watch some paint dry instead, is hard to ignore. The second half hour isn't so bad, as you're more focussed on riding through accumulated discomfort.
Not so bad in a group.

I dont find it too boring, its good for a short hard session which is all I have time for during the week before or after work. I'd rather be out riding hills and lanes in the countryside, but I dont live there anymore.

I'd rather be on a turbo/rollers than Regents Park. I have used it quite a lot over the years, especially a concentrated burst after Eastway closed, but I've given up because:

• there are a lot of suicide squirrels, and I almost came down in a group stack thanks to quite a large one.

• there's a tendency to go through the lights after the mosque, because it seems to be the done thing in group/fast training. But there's a little gate/path-road that cuts into the park there, and whilst doing ~30mph, I almost got taken out by a vehicle darting out of there... and it was a police car, and I only got away due to traffic being on my side.

• cars don't give you much room heading up the East side, and I nearly got hit by someone overtaking me when I had to swerve to avoid another car that came flying out of the road that cuts across the Boardwalk.

• the road surface is shit in places.

• I hit a dog that ran out into the road just after London Zoo, and the owner felt I was in the wrong, rather than him and his leash-based laissez-faire attitude.

• and many more...

Some of us have some real training to do.

Oooh get her.

Oooh get her.

Not me, I ment tom and mike. I do my 'training' sat down with a cup of tea. Its all about recovery, lots and lots of recovery :-)

I'd rather be on a turbo/rollers than Regents Park. I have used it quite a lot over the years, especially a concentrated burst after Eastway closed, but I've given up because:

• there are a lot of suicide squirrels, and I almost came down in a group stack thanks to quite a large one.

• there's a tendency to go through the lights after the mosque, because it seems to be the done thing in group/fast training. But there's a little gate/path-road that cuts into the park there, and whilst doing ~30mph, I almost got taken out by a vehicle darting out of there... and it was a police car, and I only got away due to traffic being on my side.

• cars don't give you much room heading up the East side, and I nearly got hit by someone overtaking me when I had to swerve to avoid another car that came flying out of the road that cuts across the Boardwalk.

• the road surface is shit in places.

• I hit a dog that ran out into the road just after London Zoo, and the owner felt I was in the wrong, rather than him and his leash-based laissez-faire attitude.

• and many more...

You really haven't had much luck around there have you? Maybe it's a sign.

I've not had any shit using the Inner Circle for standing starts and stuff.

But you need to be a special rider to get into the Inner Circle ;)

Sounds like a shotgun is also required for these sessions

To be fair, they were a sample of the incidents occurring over about a 10 year period. But I reached a threshold, and decided to opt out.

Good luck with your endeavour :)

Indoorenger.

... it's going to be a hell of a lot more relaxed than than the track!
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BMMF has a point - the road surface is dirt track-esque

I'll be there in about an hour too, prob do some outer laps, anti clockwise for an hour.