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I've been riding on and off the past few years, but really only training properly and now racing MTB XC for the past 4 months, and this weekend will do my first road race. Be doing some criteriums in addition in the next few months as well.
Only problem is I think my warm up procedure is inadequate before the race, as I find it really takes the first 30 mins before I settle in and feel comfortable in a race.
All I have been doing really is going for a 20 min spin, keeping a highish cadence, and heart rate at about 70% max hr shortly prior to the start of the race to warm up.
My question is - how do you warm up for a race (specific routines?), and in particular for races which last only up to about 2 hours in duration? As I say I mostly do MTB XC, short road races and criteriums all of 2 hours duration or less at this stage of my riding so its important that I'm flying from the start to stay near the front, and need some suggestions on what I should be doing to warm up properly!
Only problem is I think my warm up procedure is inadequate before the race, as I find it really takes the first 30 mins before I settle in and feel comfortable in a race.
All I have been doing really is going for a 20 min spin, keeping a highish cadence, and heart rate at about 70% max hr shortly prior to the start of the race to warm up.
My question is - how do you warm up for a race (specific routines?), and in particular for races which last only up to about 2 hours in duration? As I say I mostly do MTB XC, short road races and criteriums all of 2 hours duration or less at this stage of my riding so its important that I'm flying from the start to stay near the front, and need some suggestions on what I should be doing to warm up properly!