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Training for a hilly race
On Feb 2, 2:40*pm, Donald Munro wrote:
LawBoy01 wrote: I'm targeting Lago Vista as my first race in the TXBRA series for this year. *It's a hilly SOB, and I've been training with 53/42 and 12-23. A friend said that is stupid. *Is it? *Should I be training with gears that I will actually use in the race, like 53/39 and 13-26? Do you eat red herrings ? Do you spend most of your time on the web typing with one hand? |
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Training for a hilly race
LawBoy01 wrote:
I'm targeting Lago Vista as my first race in the TXBRA series for this year. Â*It's a hilly SOB, and I've been training with 53/42 and 12-23. A friend said that is stupid. Â*Is it? Â*Should I be training with gears that I will actually use in the race, like 53/39 and 13-26? Donald Munro wrote: Do you eat red herrings ? LawBoy01 wrote: Do you spend most of your time on the web typing with one hand? Only when I'm doping. Anyway its winter where you are; you'd get much better bang for your buck if you did some long (15-20min) sub-threshold intervals and then later start to throw in some shorter (3-5 min) VO2 max intervals and maybe a smallish helping of anaerobic intervals closer to the race. |
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