Cycling Fitness / Training Advice

I don't know what shite you've been reading...

Dostoevsky would be a start out of the mire.

Turbo charged cars get a noticeable increase in performance when it's cold out - higher density air, and it's colder to start off with so the heating effect of the compressor starts from a lower point, as it were.

I'll wait for the bluray

What have i been reading? Just BS posted by know-it-alls on forums etc

Aren't forums wonderful?

http://terraindynamics.com.au/the-lab/time-to-fatigue

Wait. What?

Yeah... hmmmmm

So all I need to do is ride harder on the flat, then I'll be able to ride harder on a climb. Because it'll feel easier?

Right. Stopped reading there.

Lucky for me I'm 185cm and 71kg. Bye fatties.

Yeah exactly - it's so clear now.. all I need to do to drop whippets is to burn myself out on the flat, then hills won't seem nearly as bad?

Anyway, hills.. pfft. Banking or gtfo. 90kg and 182cm ftw.

90kg? Where are you hiding it, in your cheeks? You didn't look near 90kg.

It's all about the fight in the carpark after the race.

Legs and dat ass

Not that bad, but I am starting to have issues with jeans :(

Muscle is heavy.

Did a 30second sprint session on the road yesterday instead of the rollers - broke my training 30s pb 3 times in 4 sprints. Slightly regret that now. In an absolute hole today, could hardly get out of bed.

Have a rest day.

I'm still knackered from two races in 3 days.

#oldmanrecoverytakeslonger

I tried this.
Push a bit hard on the flat to hit the front of the pack as the big climb starts. Then slide back down the group during the climb. So I can still draft it down the other side. Thus finishing with a group stronger than myself.

Except it's bullshit. Pop halfway up hill. Lose horrible amount of time on climb. Never see main bunch again. Only tubed cheese left in the finish tent.

Was supposed to be at the gym today but had my physio assessment. He told me to go home and sleep after.

You need to be at teh front well in advance of the hill! :)
Then you suck wheels into the hill and can then drift back. Worst thing to do is go into a gradient already in the red.

Save £1000...

unzip jacket on the flat
zip up jacket on the climbs

= hippy climbs like Contador

Paul Rogers (Aus S&C coach) on blowing one's self.

1. The one thing we do that most coaches can't cop is this. If you don't make the target times or loads on the first effort or set, you warm down and go home. You aren't fresh enough to train at a level that will make you improve. If you do a PB, you warm down and go home. If you are on fire that much you can blow yourself to pieces in a couple of sets or efforts and it will take weeks to dig you out of the hole you put yourself in, so whatever it is, if you PB, you stop and come back next time. This philosophy takes everyone a while to accept, but it works. When we don't follow the rules, if we let someone pump out a series of PBs in one session, they are almost invariably wrecked for weeks afterwards and we never get close to quality training during that time. Sometimes, you can see it coming, but sometimes it just comes out of the blue. When it does, warm down, go home.
   

2016 I will mostly be 'warming down, going home' :)

The other thing is that when times are shit and your sensations aren't good and your missing power number or its hard. You've got to keep the commitmnet to keep plugging away training.
I can go through periods of weeks where I don't have a 'good' workout and it really is frustrating. Then boom, from no where I'll get a good workout.

How it works for me.

Consistency.