40 day and 40 nights

You cannot stop riding for that amount of time. It will take you four times as long to get back to the shape you were in before you took your leave of absence.

cyclintom said:

You cannot stop riding for that amount of time. It will take you four times as long to get back to the shape you were in before you took your leave of absence.

I haven't been off my bikes I'm still riding 6 days a week weather permitting, just been mainly in the woods. The road bike has seen some action but out of 23 rides in August I was riding the trails in the woods 19 days.

zipp2001 said:

I haven't been off my bikes I'm still riding 6 days a week weather permitting, just been mainly in the woods. The road bike has seen some action but out of 23 rides in August I was riding the trails in the woods 19 days.

Well, for the most part you build strength with effort so off-road riding helps you to maintain your power. But you do have to do endurance rides as well or you end up climbing a hill fast and dying at the top. You have to coast down the other side and then you end up riding slowly back home.

Right now I'm having trouble with recovery because I don't hydrate enough and I don't get enough sleep. I'm working on it.

With luck I'll get back to the level where I can let the fast guys get a quarter mile start on a climb and run them down before the top. I'm also working on a continuous spin without stopping every 10 strokes or so. That limits me to a steady 17 or 18 mph and I want to get back up to 20 mph for a metric century. I've got a brother that's 15 years younger than me and I want to make him suffer.

Nice video, Zipp! That thing is still a rocketship!

cyclintom said:

Well, for the most part you build strength with effort so off-road riding helps you to maintain your power. But you do have to do endurance rides as well or you end up climbing a hill fast and dying at the top. You have to coast down the other side and then you end up riding slowly back home.

Right now I'm having trouble with recovery because I don't hydrate enough and I don't get enough sleep. I'm working on it.

With luck I'll get back to the level where I can let the fast guys get a quarter mile start on a climb and run them down before the top. I'm also working on a continuous spin without stopping every 10 strokes or so. That limits me to a steady 17 or 18 mph and I want to get back up to 20 mph for a metric century. I've got a brother that's 15 years younger than me and I want to make him suffer.

Never have much of a problem carrying my speed over the climbs, and will never coast down a hill. I did all the work to get over it I sure am going to reward myself going down am hammer as much as I can. I still work on endurance even with the trail bike by going out for plus hour rides once a week.

CAMPYBOB said:

Nice video, Zipp! That thing is still a rocketship!

You just can't get on this machine and go out for a nice relaxing recovery ride. It was made to fly and when I can't fly with it then it's time to give it a new pilot.

When the engine room is responding to commands from the bridge and the wind and road conditions are right I can only imagine the speed you can generate with a flat back and head tucked low.