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Bad Day at the Office
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Julian Downing Jul. 11, 2009.
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Good week's prep for road race today
Tuesday - Strength sessions
Wednesday gym
Thursday - Crit race at Preston
Fri/Sat - rest
Sun - absolutely shite!! 1 lap off the back and suffering, struggled to keep going finally quit, legs felt good until hard…
Julian - They must be helping then!
Raced last night so thought a gentle ride to and from work today would be good. Everything felt hideous on the way in, a huge effort. Pumped up my tyres on the way home and I was less tired and everything felt ea…
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- Sport interested in:
- Cycling
- About Me:
- First season racing time trials, mostly hilly SPOCO courses and local 10 & 25 races.
- My PB's
- 10 - 22.03 on a super quick Levens course in September
25 - 58.06 - Local evening race July 2010
50 - Have to wait until next season!
- My Clubs:
- Lakes Road Club
Comment Wall (24 comments)
- At 10:34am on August 15, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- Slippy- Hope all's well with you. We've just launched new training diary and route planner functionality on the site (you can read about it here).
Be great if you could help us test and suggest ideas to improve...
Cheers
JULIAN
- At 8:33am on August 4, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- Hi Slippy - congrats on your 25mile TT PB. You're having a great season...
- At 6:31pm on June 5, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- Interestingly, there was a feature in Cycling Weekly last week recommending dropping off some races to focus on planned training rides...
- At 7:15pm on May 31, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- Hey, glad to hear form's coming back. Nothing like a mechanical problem before the start to get the adrenalin going! What have you changed with your training/what do you think's working?
Cheers
JULIAN
- At 8:14pm on May 20, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- Hi Slippy,
Re: Top end speed, I always go back to consider three things:
1. Endurance - Am i lasting the distance @ required speed? Remedy - I do some longer than usual rides with a training partner at a pace higher than I would do if on my own. Riding some team TT's would also be a good one!
2. Power/cadence. Remedy: I do 2min power intervals on the turbo where I ride each interval @ 100% (for me at an ave of circa 33mph).
Warm up
2min interval / 2mins recovery.
Repeat 4-6 times.
Warm down.
I'm completely spent at the end!
3. Strength: Remedy - I do I do 5min intervals on the turbo where I ride each interval race pace + 10-20% (for me at an ave of circa 29-30mph).
Warm up
5min interval / 5mins recovery.
Repeat 2-4 times.
Warm down.
Hope this helps,
Cheers
JULIAN
- At 12:08pm on May 14, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- Hi Slippy. Thanks for the message.
Yep, just ended a big block of final training. Feeling good on swim/run, and probably OK too on the bike, though haven't raced enough TT's to know exactly where I am. Didn't do too badly in this week's club 10mile TT, though Ben Instone turned up and showed us that we're merely amateurs! So tomorrow's the big day - Eton tri - least the weather looks better than last year, though the water's cold.
How are you finding road racing? Good/difficult/fun? Are you finding it's a help to TT?
Cheers
JULIAN
- At 6:32pm on April 24, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- How'd training go this week? Do you think the "feeling of lack of top end speed" is physilogical or psychological?
- At 3:53pm on April 14, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- Sorry to hear about the crash, though judging by your great result in the Circuit" no long term damage done! I agree, it's a godsend when racing starts replacing training...My biking feels good, though need to do some more racing to know exactly where I'm at; running far improved from last year; swimming - need to focus on this for a few weeks to get up to where I need to be - targeting a peak for mid May (first triathlon) with weekly TT's beginning last week April. Cheers JULIAN
- At 11:43am on April 11, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- How's April panning out for you?
- At 6:30pm on March 17, 2010,
Julian Downing said…
- Saw your comment about not feeling your "top end speed" is there. What works for me early season is to ride a couple of the club 10mile TT's as a 2 up training session with a training partner of mine who is 10-20% quicker than me when he rides solo - find he pushes me up to the next level (of pain threshold!) and I end up just hanging onto his wheel!
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