Training this winter

i have never heard of a 200m standing/held start sprint but i would imagine it could be pretty explosive and interesting to watch akin to the 100 metres in athletics. no tactics or tricks just all out three riders per heat GO.
could something like that work do you think?

sorry if i missed something.

There's the 'chariot race' - a one lap mass start event. Or you could do it as a kilo pursuit with riders starting at different stations...

Lot of standing around for other riders though.

Team sprint probably the best compromise for that kind of thing (from a rider/spectator perspective)...?

i have never heard of a 200m standing/held start sprint but i would imagine it could be pretty explosive and interesting to watch akin to the 100 metres in athletics. no tactics or tricks just all out three riders per heat GO.
could something like that work do you think?

sorry if i missed something.

There is a thing called a chariot race, in the US I think. basically a standing start one lap race. That would be great fun, 6 or 8 riders up at a time.

There was always handicap sprints, but seeding is a pain. would be great to have some 200 flying tts and ss 500m tts though!

Too slow, Rob. Perhaps an omen of things to come :p

FFS,I was typing when that came up.
just as well I don;t pedal with my fingers

Can we not have a roller racing thing where the dials are powered by touch-typing?

I'm sure some bright spark could devise such a game...

Im going to head out about 6ish on Thursday for some laps of Regents Park

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.asp?zipcode=London&day=6

Anyone care to join me?

Or failing that

Friday morning around 9ish

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.asp?zipcode=London&day=7

Mike, I should be up for some of that, Thurs Night could be good or maybe a little earlier on Friday would suit better, 8 maybe, before work?

Id love there to be some kind of pursuit/TT at HH but the times an issue isnt it, 2 hours racing for cat A's, B's and juniors. Theres only so much you can fit in, surely. And I wonder how easy it would be to organise team events, for the organisers and the riders??

yeah, as early as possible Mike, want to make the most of the -20 and 300mph winds!

Ha, i just looked at the links. Maybe not.

Oh, hai Jamie how's the weights going?

YouTube- Jamie Staff Squat.

His form has been ripped to shreds on fgf, BTW.

Though it's a PB-seeking lift, so things are going to get ropey, init.

Indeed, but he does correct it slightly, or tries to. I've seen worse.

He wasn't really going for the reps was he?

Should have guessed where 700+ views came from inthe first place

At least he goes past parallel. I think it was the knees collapsing in that got picked up on most, and something to do with his lower back.

Even on my commute to work I manage 10 single leg reps with that kind of weight.

I can lift twice that on the end of my knob

I put that kind of weight in my panniers and then ride up Swain's Lane in a 3000" gear, whilst also towing a trailer full of all my imaginary medals and shit.

Isn't it? I can put, like, ten times that weight in my back pocket and still spend all day at the trocadero and shit..

I used to do that kind of weight when I was at school and was doing sex like twelve times a night with all my friends' mums, but then I stopped when I got into drinking 15 pints every night and hot knifing eighths in a single hit. Eventually all my mates died cos they were too lightweight, so I got back in the gym and started lifting the big fuck-off numbers again, doing single arm curls with the poundage that Staff pussy is wobbling under. Jezus, cyclists are all pussy fags.

On the note of us being all pussy fags. I seem to have developed a cold after a binge the other night where I knocked back 3 bottles of whisky 2 grams of coke and half an ounce of skunk.

What is the consensus of training with a cold. I have missed a couple of days and was wondering would an hour on the rollers be a good or bad idea?