Your first race next season

I can't wait until the road racing season starts up again. I'm gonna
puke on the hills of Lago Vista during the 35+ 4/5 race at La
Primavera (my first race of next season), but it's still gonna be fun.

What are the rest of you going to take on for your first race of the
upcoming season? What are you doing now and/or do you plan to do to
get ready for that first race (besides doping)?

LawBoy01 wrote:
What are the rest of you going to take on for your first race of the
upcoming season? What are you doing now and/or do you plan to do to
get ready for that first race (besides doping)?

I'm getting onto the track in a few weeks for the first time in my life.
I figured that's where I have got the best shot at a Rainbow Jersey.

On Oct 16, 2:06*pm, Ted van de Weteringe
wrote:
I'm getting onto the track in a few weeks for the first time in my life.
I figured that's where I have got the best shot at a Rainbow Jersey.

We've got a velodrome (the "Superdrome") here in Frisco, and I plan on
riding the track this offseason and into the winter (my team paid for
a night of private training during the offseason). But I gotta heal
my back. I pushed it hard, perhaps too hard, in my effort to lose
weight, and got a bulging disk and a sciatic nerve hooked to my L5/S1
joint. Six more weeks of light effort (pretty much no 20+ MPH
training rides. I can do distance and time, but no big ringing it or
pushing hard. So I put a 42 on my road bike, and will stick to 48x16
and above the stayers line on the track.

LawBoy01 wrote:
On Oct 16, 2:06 pm, Ted van de Weteringe
wrote:
I'm getting onto the track in a few weeks for the first time in my life.
I figured that's where I have got the best shot at a Rainbow Jersey.

We've got a velodrome (the "Superdrome") here in Frisco, and I plan on
riding the track this offseason and into the winter (my team paid for
a night of private training during the offseason). But I gotta heal
my back. I pushed it hard, perhaps too hard, in my effort to lose
weight, and got a bulging disk and a sciatic nerve hooked to my L5/S1
joint. Six more weeks of light effort (pretty much no 20+ MPH
training rides. I can do distance and time, but no big ringing it or
pushing hard. So I put a 42 on my road bike, and will stick to 48x16
and above the stayers line on the track.

You'd be better off not riding at all for a while and rehabilitating
your back. Google for McKenzie exercises and get stretching, or there
may be no riding for you next year.

On Oct 16, 3:47*pm, Kyle Legate wrote:
LawBoy01 wrote:
On Oct 16, 2:06 pm, Ted van de Weteringe
wrote:
I'm getting onto the track in a few weeks for the first time in my life.
I figured that's where I have got the best shot at a Rainbow Jersey.

We've got a velodrome (the "Superdrome") here in Frisco, and I plan on
riding the track this offseason and into the winter (my team paid for
a night of private training during the offseason). *But I gotta heal
my back. *I pushed it hard, perhaps too hard, in my effort to lose
weight, and got a bulging disk and a sciatic nerve hooked to my L5/S1
joint. *Six more weeks of light effort (pretty much no 20+ MPH
training rides. *I can do distance and time, but no big ringing it or
pushing hard. *So I put a 42 on my road bike, and will stick to 48x16
and above the stayers line on the track.

You'd be better off not riding at all for a while and rehabilitating
your back. Google for McKenzie exercises and get stretching, or there
may be no riding for you next year.

I am going through PT at the Texas Back Institute in Plano, and don't
do anything without the advice and approval of both my physical
therapist and neurosurgeon. I can ride my bike with the stem flipped
upward and a small gear, but lately all I've been doing is my PT,
weight training, reading "Base Building" by Friel's former underling,
and playing some half-court basketball. I was only recently given the
"O.K." to ride my bike. I've been pedaling 'round da hood on my track
bike with clinchers and a front brake.

Thanks for the advice about stretching. I've been working hard on
increasing my hampstring flexibility, which is less than 90 degrees
right now. That, and working on my core.

LawBoy01 wrote:
What are the rest of you going to take on for your first race of the
upcoming season? What are you doing now and/or do you plan to do to get
ready for that first race (besides doping)?

Ted van de Weteringe wrote:
I'm getting onto the track in a few weeks for the first time in my life. I
figured that's where I have got the best shot at a Rainbow Jersey.

Just don't forget you can't freewheel after your first interval. I almost
came off that way the 1st time I did intervals and sat up without thinking
after finishing an interval.

"Ted van de Weteringe" wrote in message
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LawBoy01 wrote:
What are the rest of you going to take on for your first race of the
upcoming season? What are you doing now and/or do you plan to do to
get ready for that first race (besides doping)?

I'm getting onto the track in a few weeks for the first time in my life. I
figured that's where I have got the best shot at a Rainbow Jersey.

Don't rush your condition on the track. Be sure to move into it slowly so
that you develop the proper reactions.

One of our local people took to the track very well and was fast. After only
a couple of weeks they were in a test race and after they won it going
across the line they STOPPED PEDALLING! This threw them over the bars and
onto their head and that's been almost a year now and they're still more or
less in a coma.

The bottom line is that you need to learn how to ride before you think
you're a star. I'd like to hear that you're a star later and not a hospital
case sooner.

Tom Kunich wrote:
The bottom line is that you need to learn how to ride before you think
you're a star. I'd like to hear that you're a star later and not a
hospital case sooner.

Might not know it now
Baby, but I are, I'm a star!
I don't want 2 stop till I reach the top

Thanks, it's just an introductory class though, at the mo' no plans of
treading the gerbil wheel for real. If I like it, maybe. I do like
watching track races! Also, after years of spinning (I like the view
http://xs129.xs.to/xs129/08290/spin483.jpg) I feel reasonably confident
about getting on a fixie.

On Oct 16, 4:31*pm, "Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote:

Don't rush your condition on the track. Be sure to move into it slowly so
that you develop the proper reactions.

You can develop the proper reactions-- or, as some people put it,
"learn not to try to stop pedaling" (one 'l', English is a stupid
language) on the road, on a fixed gear. That Hans would probably make
a demon fixer, complete with rear brake, which IMHO is even more
useful on a fixed gear bike than on a freewheeler.

A pitfall there, however, is, indeed, getting used to having brakes.
This might cause a daydreaming track rider to leave the warmup circle
at a comparatively high rate of speed, and get almost to his parking
place in the racks still moving far too quickly and with no way to
stop.

It was close, but at the last possible nanosecond I found a way
through the milling throng, by scant inches.

That would have been a hard one to come back from g.

Oh yeah, first race, first race.

I'll be in a new (actually, old, or older) age group in '09. Ha ha,
visions of sugar plums and more medals and such. Third time around for
this "upgrade", so I do know that it's really just "same guys, fewer
and fewer places to hide". Ah, but the dream... g

Being in some kind of halfway decent shape is a big effort, and reward
enough; being able to keep up, even uphill, on the rides where you can
hear the medals jingling (if you listen close) is getting to be within
reach, and is even better yet. Racing, even just as pack filler, is
gravy. Mighty good gravy, of course. Little chunks of sausage, specks
of black pepper, and a couple of biscuits to pour it over, yum yum! Do
better and you get the the pork chops, and eggs, and toast with butter
and strawberry jam!

Any of you f-ing ectomorphs hungry yet? --D-y

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Being in some kind of halfway decent shape is a big effort, and reward
enough; being able to keep up, even uphill, on the rides where you can
hear the medals jingling (if you listen close) is getting to be within
reach, and is even better yet. Racing, even just as pack filler, is
gravy. Mighty good gravy, of course. Little chunks of sausage, specks
of black pepper, and a couple of biscuits to pour it over, yum yum! Do
better and you get the the pork chops, and eggs, and toast with butter
and strawberry jam!

Any of you f-ing ectomorphs hungry yet? --D-y

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