WarrenG said:
You say so. Coaches with far more success in training racers disagree.
I don't
say that the forces generated during SE training are relatively low (compared to what our muscles can generate), I
know that they are because I've actually measured them. So, if any coach disagrees, they are not only flat-out wrong, but they're foolish as well.
WarrenG said:
Maybe you're Polar powermeter is lying to you when it says you are still generating ~1300 W at the end of a flying 200 m TT? No maybe about it: it is, and all you have to do is look at powermeter files from world class sprinters doing the same event but using more reliable devices (i.e., an SRM) to realize it.
WarrenG said:
I don't take that as much of a comment because I doubt that you would ever hire anybody as your coach.
What, like the coaches/coaching manuals available when I first started out, which were full of bogus advice like "keep a pebble in your mouth so that you don't have to drink as much", "eat horsemeat to make yourself strong", etc.?
The fact of the matter is that while I could undoubtly learn a lot from a good coach about the actual practice of coaching (vs. designing training programs, which is only one of a coach's jobs), I have no desire to be a coach, so there's really no reason for me to hire one.
WarrenG said:
I think part of the reason for your limited success in the sport is because you won't listen enough to good coaches because you believe you already know the answers.
My limited success* in cycling is due to 1) my limited ability (I'm genetically more gifted than many, but not nearly as gifted as some), and 2) the fact that I realized early on that I could never be as good as I wanted to be, and even if I was, it would be hard to make a living in the sport. I therefore stopped making cycling my #1 priority when I was just out of the Espoirs (which of course didn't exist back then) and have really just treated it as a hobby ever since. (By the latter I mean that I haven't made career moves based on cycling, choose not to train more than 1 h or so per day, generally only do races that are within an hour's drive, etc.)
*I was a cat. 1 back in the Lemond era and I've won district championships in five or six states, but unlike, e.g., my wife, never won a national championship, never made a national team, never had a legitimate shot of going to the Olympics or Worlds, etc. Perhaps more to the point, I never went to/medaled at Worlds or the Olympics or rode in the Tour de France, like, say, Carl Sundquist, Kent Bostick, and Thurlow Rogers, who happens to be the fellows who won the TT at master nationals the years I competed.
WarrenG said:
One thing we don't do is tell someone who's been successful that their ideas are based on fallacies or that they would be a bad coach
Hey, I'm just calling them like I see 'em...if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.