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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2009 18:39:42 GMT
V8 engine - more like a smoky old two-stroke these days.
I can't be bothered to do them these days, but my best seasons always followed a month or so of doing sporting course time trials in March/April. I guess that's really working on functional threshold. My early season form seems pretty good and I put that down to a winter of cross where I've been racing at/above threshold for an hour. Of course, you also need top end power to get across to a break (that's where the shorter intervals are useful), but you need to be able to stay there once you're in it.
As for closing gaps in the chaingang - the idea is to stay on the wheel in front. You're not going to learn much out the back.
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Post by chamoniards on Apr 1, 2009 19:37:56 GMT
I'm more interested in guessing who you are skinny boy, it's just a hunch, but are you James King? Go on tell me I'm right.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2009 20:36:08 GMT
A few words from Mr Friel describing de-coupling:
How do you know if your aerobic endurance is progressing? And how do you know when you've done enough such training to reach an optimal AeT fitness level? The answer to both of these questions may be found by comparing power or speed with heart rate. When training at the AeT intensities described above you may expect to see heart rates approximately in zone 2 according to the heart rate zones as described in my Training Bible books.
While there is little on this in the scientific literature, the limited research available appears to indicate that when aerobic endurance improves there is reduced heart rate drift relative to constant outputs (power and speed). And, of course, the reverse of this is that when heart rate is held steady during extensive endurance training, output may be expected to drift downward. This parallel relationship between input (heart rate) and output (power or speed) is referred to as "coupling." When they are no longer parallel in a workout as one variable remains steady while the other drifts the relationship is said to have "decoupled." Excessive decoupling would indicate a lack of aerobic endurance fitness.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2009 16:23:26 GMT
Yes, Haribo, i agree with you on the Wednesday score!!! I went out on Weds of this week, and just missed the fast group, so with 98 miles from a Tuesday jaunt; thought that an easy slow session with Bryan at the helm, would be fun. Well, that was the plan until Danny Rudd suggested that he and i get up to the fast group....(cheers for that Danny, just what my tired legs needed)!!! Anyway, we got onto the back of them as they came up to the Knockholt R'about...and wow did they motor back!!! I seem to remember reading Maria's note to get the girls out...and it would be a 'testing' chaingang....and then David Lones came out....great.....do you do Monday chaingangs too? ps: Is 'Skinny boy' an alias of Tony Gibb?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2009 10:37:28 GMT
Statueman - what bike/kit did you have? Wednesday this week was even faster with only four people together at the start of the Polhill descent. I got a 20.8mph average (start of Croydon road to home), but then didn't take the route into Bromley coming back, rather turned left into Croydon rd where the others go straight on and rode through Eden park and re-joined the chaingang coming up the hill to CP.
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