J
On May 1, 5:56 am, Bret <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 8:16 pm, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
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>
>
> > <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >news:302341de-2bc7-41dd-8c64-7e1a353f0c7b@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
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> > > A final thing to remember is that recovery is extremely
> > > important. Your recovery days should be so slow that you'd be
> > > embarrassed if anyone saw you. Guess what, when they see your rear
> > > ride away on race day it doesn't matter that you rode slow on
> > > Wednesday evening on your recvoery ride!
>
> > That was an important statement and I wanted to underscore it. Riding easy
> > is AS IMPORTANT as riding hard. What's more you have to do a lot more ofit.
> > Staying in or below zone 2 is a key element in training on your off days..
>
> > Club rides are ALWAYS in Zone 3 which is the zone in which you can't recover
> > and can't improve. What's more, if you try to develop and group that rides
> > correctly it will always break up and most will try to ride too hard butnot
> > hard enough to train.
>
> If it's true that you get what you pay for, the above is the freeest
> koaching advice yet.
>
> If you want to get fast, get a small training group together of
> similar ability and do regular hard steady paceline rides like you're
> riding a team time trial. Go climbing with the group too. Do your
> intervals on the side. If the group won't do easy days, do that on the
> side too. If the group is dysfunctional, quit it and try again. Paypal
> donations CAN be sent to my email address above. If you don't believe
> that last part, prove me wrong.
>
> Bret
I'm having issues with my paypal now so you are SOL, but the advice is
good. That's what my 2 hour club training is. Team time trial starting
with about 15 guys, and as they fade they jump on the back. Toward the
end it is about 5 of us going all out. Quite fun and good training
too.
Joseph
> On Apr 30, 8:16 pm, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> >news:302341de-2bc7-41dd-8c64-7e1a353f0c7b@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>
> > > A final thing to remember is that recovery is extremely
> > > important. Your recovery days should be so slow that you'd be
> > > embarrassed if anyone saw you. Guess what, when they see your rear
> > > ride away on race day it doesn't matter that you rode slow on
> > > Wednesday evening on your recvoery ride!
>
> > That was an important statement and I wanted to underscore it. Riding easy
> > is AS IMPORTANT as riding hard. What's more you have to do a lot more ofit.
> > Staying in or below zone 2 is a key element in training on your off days..
>
> > Club rides are ALWAYS in Zone 3 which is the zone in which you can't recover
> > and can't improve. What's more, if you try to develop and group that rides
> > correctly it will always break up and most will try to ride too hard butnot
> > hard enough to train.
>
> If it's true that you get what you pay for, the above is the freeest
> koaching advice yet.
>
> If you want to get fast, get a small training group together of
> similar ability and do regular hard steady paceline rides like you're
> riding a team time trial. Go climbing with the group too. Do your
> intervals on the side. If the group won't do easy days, do that on the
> side too. If the group is dysfunctional, quit it and try again. Paypal
> donations CAN be sent to my email address above. If you don't believe
> that last part, prove me wrong.
>
> Bret
I'm having issues with my paypal now so you are SOL, but the advice is
good. That's what my 2 hour club training is. Team time trial starting
with about 15 guys, and as they fade they jump on the back. Toward the
end it is about 5 of us going all out. Quite fun and good training
too.
Joseph