I Have a standing 250m eliminator sprint event coming up, (no track bikes permitted) I do a lot of AWC and nuromuscular work from 12sec out to about 40secs year round so thought this event would be right up my alley.However standing starts are new to me compared to rolling or flying sprints and getting on top of the gear at the start seems to take about ~3sec before I can start to produce enough meaningful power to start flicking through the gears and then sit down and start to wind out the 14t to around 50km - 52 km/hr in around ~20sec.
Power for these is much lower than efforts of the same duration done all standing from a rolling start as you would expect, but speed is the goal not highest power.
I havn't done enough feild testing to workout when the best time to sit down and get aero is but surely at 45 + km/hr 850watts seated is going to be faster than 1100w standing?
Advice on where to focus my time from anyone who has trained or trained someone for this type of event, track or otherwise sure would be appreciated, bearing in mind its done on road bikes so I can start/finish in any gear I choose, I think it's slighly uphill too so might double check that but at 68kg I don't think my weight will be an issue. maybe 67kg if I skip lunch and dinner that day lol!
Power for these is much lower than efforts of the same duration done all standing from a rolling start as you would expect, but speed is the goal not highest power.
I havn't done enough feild testing to workout when the best time to sit down and get aero is but surely at 45 + km/hr 850watts seated is going to be faster than 1100w standing?
Advice on where to focus my time from anyone who has trained or trained someone for this type of event, track or otherwise sure would be appreciated, bearing in mind its done on road bikes so I can start/finish in any gear I choose, I think it's slighly uphill too so might double check that but at 68kg I don't think my weight will be an issue. maybe 67kg if I skip lunch and dinner that day lol!