Training
Many cyclists do more than a weekend coffee ride and are committed to training to improve their race performance. This section of the blog is devoted to bringing up to date information about training methodology and practice to help you maximise your performance in competitive situations.
An experiment. How much harder is faster?
My Triathlon club has a Time Trial series that includes various courses but my favourite is a 100km dead flat bike time trial. My pb for the event is 2:29:58 at just a tad over 40km/hr average at an average heart rate of 159 (70.3% max).
This weekend and the next we are riding the same [...]
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16Jul2008 | alex | 3 comments | Continued
Descending Skills
I wrote recently about my crappy descending skills on a bike and in particular how this means that I’m getting spat out the back end of group rides and more importantly out the back of races. At the moment I’m strong enough in my grade for this to not pose too much of a problem, [...]
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16Jul2008 | gj | 1 comment | Continued
Cadence & Power - a follow up…
Alex (our nutrition editor) made some good comments on my recent post about cadence and power that I think provide an alternate view. Rather than having them lost at the bottom of my post, I thought it worthwhile to repeat them here:
“Greg.
Being keen on numbers, I have played with just about everything there is to [...]
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9Jul2008 | gj | 0 comments | Continued
Cadence, Power and Speed
I’m sitting here watching the Tour de France stage 4 individual time trial and listening to some crappy commentary about cadence selection and the fact that many cyclists these days adopt a “Lance Armstrong high cadence” and that because they pedal at a high cadence, much like a formula one car revving at high revs, [...]
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8Jul2008 | gj | 7 comments | Continued
Chase the Speedo - training for commuters
Whilst this training technique works for pretty much any type of riding over a period of days, it’s ideally suited to integrating training into a series of commuting rides or a series of rides that are all over the same or similar terrain.
The objective of the exercise is to maintain focus and intensity over the course [...]
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18Jun2008 | gj | 0 comments | ContinuedLatest Reviews |
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