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"Mark Fennell" wrote: webhead wrote: So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? Rollers. Perfect for entertaining yourself. Or hurting yourself. For example, see my stupid roller tricks from last night... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiCdm5FsJpg Nice work. The standup sprint bit is pretty hard, isn't it? I can't say that I ever tried to take a foot out of the pedal on rollers. Oh, good choice of music. Too bad the rest of that record is so, well, overwrought. Next I'll try to bunny-hop off in a full sprint. Will I go skidding across the floor?? Ah, Maddog's patented roastie burnout trick. Make sure you have a padded wall to plow into. -- tanx, Howard Safe when used as directed... remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok? |
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Howard Kveck schreef:
"Mark Fennell" wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiCdm5FsJpg Oh, good choice of music. Trolling for Tosi? |
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On Dec 1, 10:55 am, webhead wrote:
Just out of curiosity: at this time of year I'm supposed to build a base physique and do long low intensity rides. However, days are short and the weather is just plain terrible. I don't mind the weather for a ride but cleaning my bike and getting every itty bitty sand out of the chain and drivetrain is just hours of work. If I don't I'm just grinding components. I like my trainer but being stationary for about an hour is my limit. It's a bit annoying to sit still for longer times. So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? RBR's Greatest Hits: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...db176d10d0277f Suddenly, I feel nostalgic. It's not like there's some magic threshold where a 3 hour low intensity ride benefits you and a 1 hour ride doesn't. The 3 hour ride is just more training volume. So do the 1 hour ride if that's all you can stand, then go for a walk or shovel snow or something. Other people ride outside, or if they're pros or rich they travel someplace warm. If you're just worried about grit in the drivetrain, ride anything, even an old ten speed. The bike makes little difference to a training ride. If your derailleur ices up, turn it into a singlespeed. Or go buy a $50 used mountain bike and race cyclocross. Don't use money and waiting to build a CX bike as a reason to skip the season. Ben |
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On Dec 2, 7:49 pm, "
wrote: On Dec 1, 10:55 am, webhead wrote: Just out of curiosity: at this time of year I'm supposed to build a base physique and do long low intensity rides. However, days are short and the weather is just plain terrible. I don't mind the weather for a ride but cleaning my bike and getting every itty bitty sand out of the chain and drivetrain is just hours of work. If I don't I'm just grinding components. I like my trainer but being stationary for about an hour is my limit. It's a bit annoying to sit still for longer times. So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? RBR's Greatest Hits: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...se_frm/thread/... Suddenly, I feel nostalgic. It's not like there's some magic threshold where a 3 hour low intensity ride benefits you and a 1 hour ride doesn't. The 3 hour ride is just more training volume. So do the 1 hour ride if that's all you can stand, then go for a walk or shovel snow or something. Other people ride outside, or if they're pros or rich they travel someplace warm. If you're just worried about grit in the drivetrain, ride anything, even an old ten speed. The bike makes little difference to a training ride. If your derailleur ices up, turn it into a singlespeed. Or go buy a $50 used mountain bike and race cyclocross. Don't use money and waiting to build a CX bike as a reason to skip the season. Ben You're probably right that the kind of bike doesn't matter to a training ride. I don't think that a 1 hour hard ride and snow shoveling would be the same as a 3 hour ride. Sure it might raise my heartrate slightly but that's not a problem. I'm pretty sure that maintaining a posture and way of moving during several hours leads to an adaptation and training effect unachievable by cross training. For one thing the kind of muscle simulation leads to a specified adaptation. I do a lot of weight training (not for cycling purposes, unrelated) and endurance isn't trained by short period high weight stimulation but by smaller weight and multiple repetitions. So I wondered, getting "base miles" early on the season, would that be for cardiovascular endurance alone? I'm sure posture adaptation would come into play big time. I'm not sure if it's possible to do a 7 hour bike ride if you've only done 1 hour interval training for months on end. From what I've learned out of exercise physiology is that short high intensity rides help prevent decline in VO2max and although it does decline much less fast, it drops nevertheless. To put it simply: I think in order to train for long bike rides I'd need to do long bike rides or am I just completely missing something here. It just seems somewhat contradictory that the time of year you need to do your long hours of training just coincides with bad weather and short daytime. |
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On Dec 1, 6:55 pm, webhead wrote:
Just out of curiosity: at this time of year I'm supposed to build a base physique and do long low intensity rides. However, days are short and the weather is just plain terrible. I don't mind the weather for a ride but cleaning my bike and getting every itty bitty sand out of the chain and drivetrain is just hours of work. If I don't I'm just grinding components. I like my trainer but being stationary for about an hour is my limit. It's a bit annoying to sit still for longer times. So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? You might be amazed that I do practically all my easy rides indoors on my trainer. I live in downtown Paris and riding outside can be fairly annoying, and pretty much every outdoor ride is either too stressful or too hard for recovery. My longest trainer ride is about 1:30. -ilan |
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... On Dec 1, 6:55 pm, webhead wrote: Just out of curiosity: at this time of year I'm supposed to build a base physique and do long low intensity rides. However, days are short and the weather is just plain terrible. I don't mind the weather for a ride but cleaning my bike and getting every itty bitty sand out of the chain and drivetrain is just hours of work. If I don't I'm just grinding components. I like my trainer but being stationary for about an hour is my limit. It's a bit annoying to sit still for longer times. So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? You might be amazed that I do practically all my easy rides indoors on my trainer. I live in downtown Paris and riding outside can be fairly annoying, and pretty much every outdoor ride is either too stressful or too hard for recovery. My longest trainer ride is about 1:30. Hey Ilan, when are you coming back to Stanford? Tom |
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On Dec 3, 2:16 am, "Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote:
wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 6:55 pm, webhead wrote: Just out of curiosity: at this time of year I'm supposed to build a base physique and do long low intensity rides. However, days are short and the weather is just plain terrible. I don't mind the weather for a ride but cleaning my bike and getting every itty bitty sand out of the chain and drivetrain is just hours of work. If I don't I'm just grinding components. I like my trainer but being stationary for about an hour is my limit. It's a bit annoying to sit still for longer times. So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? You might be amazed that I do practically all my easy rides indoors on my trainer. I live in downtown Paris and riding outside can be fairly annoying, and pretty much every outdoor ride is either too stressful or too hard for recovery. My longest trainer ride is about 1:30. Hey Ilan, when are you coming back to Stanford? Tom Not to Stanford. I doubt whether I'll be visiting the Bay Area before 2009, and I'll probably stay in Berkeley. Thanks for asking! -ilan |
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egroups.com, " wrote: On Dec 1, 10:55 am, webhead wrote: Just out of curiosity: at this time of year I'm supposed to build a base physique and do long low intensity rides. However, days are short and the weather is just plain terrible. I don't mind the weather for a ride but cleaning my bike and getting every itty bitty sand out of the chain and drivetrain is just hours of work. If I don't I'm just grinding components. I like my trainer but being stationary for about an hour is my limit. It's a bit annoying to sit still for longer times. So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? RBR's Greatest Hits: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...db176d10d0277f But who can watch television for seven hours? No, don't tell me. -- Michael Press |
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... On Dec 3, 2:16 am, "Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote: wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 6:55 pm, webhead wrote: Just out of curiosity: at this time of year I'm supposed to build a base physique and do long low intensity rides. However, days are short and the weather is just plain terrible. I don't mind the weather for a ride but cleaning my bike and getting every itty bitty sand out of the chain and drivetrain is just hours of work. If I don't I'm just grinding components. I like my trainer but being stationary for about an hour is my limit. It's a bit annoying to sit still for longer times. So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? You might be amazed that I do practically all my easy rides indoors on my trainer. I live in downtown Paris and riding outside can be fairly annoying, and pretty much every outdoor ride is either too stressful or too hard for recovery. My longest trainer ride is about 1:30. Hey Ilan, when are you coming back to Stanford? Tom Not to Stanford. I doubt whether I'll be visiting the Bay Area before 2009, and I'll probably stay in Berkeley. When you're in town let me know and I'll buy you dinner in one of the real dives out there in Berkeley. You know - Chez Panisse? Well, the owner's daughter has this great Mexican restaurant out near the freeway. |
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"Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote: wrote in message ... On Dec 3, 2:16 am, "Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote: wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 6:55 pm, webhead wrote: Just out of curiosity: at this time of year I'm supposed to build a base physique and do long low intensity rides. However, days are short and the weather is just plain terrible. I don't mind the weather for a ride but cleaning my bike and getting every itty bitty sand out of the chain and drivetrain is just hours of work. If I don't I'm just grinding components. I like my trainer but being stationary for about an hour is my limit. It's a bit annoying to sit still for longer times. So, how do you people manage? Does anyone spend 3 hours on their trainer doing long low intensity rides ? You might be amazed that I do practically all my easy rides indoors on my trainer. I live in downtown Paris and riding outside can be fairly annoying, and pretty much every outdoor ride is either too stressful or too hard for recovery. My longest trainer ride is about 1:30. Hey Ilan, when are you coming back to Stanford? Not to Stanford. I doubt whether I'll be visiting the Bay Area before 2009, and I'll probably stay in Berkeley. When you're in town let me know and I'll buy you dinner in one of the real dives out there in Berkeley. You know - Chez Panisse? Well, the owner's daughter has this great Mexican restaurant out near the freeway. Rose Bistro on Shattuck near University. My birthday dinner is memorable. Ask for something not on the wine list. I did. -- Michael Press |
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