I'm 16 years old. Ive recently taken up cycling as a main sport, after many yeasr of pottering around on a hybrid bike I've recently got into road biking on a large scale.
I was wondering what kind of training routine should I be getting in to? I have cycle with a few older freinds of mine (30-40) all of who say I have some great potential as I was riding with them for a few weeks going on 55 mile rides and keeping up a average of 20 MPH.
I am really cosidering cycling very seriously, but I am not all togeter sure on how the traing would vary for a 155lb 16 year old male? I read somthing's about peeaking at an early age due to early traing?? whats that all about.
Any help or comment would be appreciated, thanks Simon
I'm 16 years old. Ive recently taken up cycling as a main sport, after many yeasr of pottering around on a hybrid bike I've recently got into road biking on a large scale.
I was wondering what kind of training routine should I be getting in to? I have cycle with a few older freinds of mine (30-40) all of who say I have some great potential as I was riding with them for a few weeks going on 55 mile rides and keeping up a average of 20 MPH.
I am really cosidering cycling very seriously, but I am not all togeter sure on how the traing would vary for a 155lb 16 year old male? I read somthing's about peeaking at an early age due to early traing?? whats that all about.
Any help or comment would be appreciated, thanks Simon
Join the CTC for a start. Hook up with a local cycling group, see what is going on in your area, there will be something. Keep posting here.
I'm 15 and train pretty much the same as many adults do. The only thing I avoid is doing rides over four hours very often because I was told it could harm my growth plates. Once you've got some endurance, which it sounds like you may already have, go do fast group rides and intervals, if you really want to get fast. There are plenty of threads on the forum about intervals, and there are some on the next generation forum about how various juniors train.
