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| andy |
Posted on 14-04-2009 22:49
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How was the ride?
First chaingang of the year for me. Luckily didn't pick up till 2/3 of the way round, lots of strange hesitation. But when it did... 45km/h for a while, looked around, and I was last man in the line. Not quite biting the stem, but still quite uncomfortable.
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| ruben |
Posted on 14-04-2009 23:59
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this sucks, did 840km of training for the amstel gold race so far, wanted to pull that to exactly 1000 today and tomorrow. But i got ill. So now I don't want to risk anything and rest till saturday  |
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 15-04-2009 00:33
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The wind was crazy today. I got in 40 miles with Hill Intervals at an average speed of 14.8 miles an hour. Gusts at 31 miles an hour steady 20-25.
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| chrica04 |
Posted on 15-04-2009 03:35
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Ruben wrote:
this sucks, did 840km of training for the amstel gold race so far, wanted to pull that to exactly 1000 today and tomorrow. But i got ill. So now I don't want to risk anything and rest till saturday
Ruben do you race professionally? Who are you? haha |
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| chrica04 |
Posted on 15-04-2009 03:35
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Levi4life wrote:
The wind was crazy today. I got in 40 miles with Hill Intervals at an average speed of 14.8 miles an hour. Gusts at 31 miles an hour steady 20-25.
Iowa has been unbelieveable this spring. First day of 60degrees and wind is still at 15mph. Avg. for the month as probably been 15-20 everyday. |
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| YtimK |
Posted on 15-04-2009 07:42
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chrica04 wrote:
Ruben wrote:
this sucks, did 840km of training for the amstel gold race so far, wanted to pull that to exactly 1000 today and tomorrow. But i got ill. So now I don't want to risk anything and rest till saturday
Ruben do you race professionally? Who are you? haha
Dekker 
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 16-04-2009 00:38
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What's everyone's top end speed sprinting. I did a recovery ride today and thought this up halfway through. I did a sprint to a town limit sign with a slight crosswind and clocked 34.3 miles an hour with a 52-14 roughly 250 meters sprint.
honor rule applies. No tailwind sprints. no leadouts.
I expect faster speeds from you euro-track stars and those of you who don't have to use junior gearing like me.
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 16-04-2009 01:02
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Levi4life wrote:
What's everyone's top end speed sprinting. I did a recovery ride today and thought this up halfway through. I did a sprint to a town limit sign with a slight crosswind and clocked 34.3 miles an hour with a 52-14 roughly 250 meters sprint.
honor rule applies. No tailwind sprints. no leadouts.
I expect faster speeds from you euro-track stars and those of you who don't have to use junior gearing like me.
Probably 20 mph tops
actually probably more, but I'm a weak rider in general, but especially sprinting |
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| Shifty |
Posted on 16-04-2009 01:30
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I can usually do around 35-40 pretty consistently depending on the pace of the pack leading up to it, but i can most always hit at least 35 when I'm riding by myself, Junior gears are a set back i think but sprinting is so much about leg speed i think in the long run they help a little for sprinting anyway.
Do you happen to know your wattage numbers Levi? Threshold V02 and peak and peak 10sec avg and what not? I'd be interested to hear them, PM me if you don't wanna put them out for everyone for whatever reason, you seem like a strong rider though =]
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 16-04-2009 06:02
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I don't have any of those numbers. I train with estimated HR zones as the one time I did a LT test my numbers were screwy cause I had never used power before and therefore was surging all over the place.
I have a full on sprint workout tomorrow so maybe I can do better.
Edited by Levi4life on 16-04-2009 06:12
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| Shifty |
Posted on 16-04-2009 12:00
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Cool deal, i was mostly just wondering if you knew is all because power is a lot better indicator of top speed potential anyway. Power / Aero / Leg Speed seem to be the three main factors. Best of luck with your racing though, See you in August =]
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 16-04-2009 22:17
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Hey Shifty I was talking to a guy about that UCI stage race and I guess that since its invite only each team needs to field 5 riders. Problem is that there aren't any team's in my area with 5 riders who can compete on that level.
My team has 2-3, Team Specialized has 2-3 , Tieni Duro has 1-2, San Jose BC has 1, Davis BC has 2-3, Kinetics cycling has 1, but no-one has 5.
I guess they may allow mixed teams but that opens a whole new pandora's box of problems, such as who works for who, who decides who gets to go etc.
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| Shifty |
Posted on 17-04-2009 03:15
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yeah there's a team that made a composite team in your area recently i think it was called Hotel California or Hotel San Jose or something but they didn't have enough either let alone cat 3s (pretty sure you need to be to race it) so that's always an option
And idk if you're talking about Red River Gorge or L'Abitibi because this year they're looking like they'll be real similar except that each regional development camp in the US automatically gets an invite so the top 6 riders (usually based on TT unfortunately because it suits one type or rider and to boot at the camp i'm going to in S.C. it's uphill TTs) will get to go and represent their region of the country / development camp at L'Abitibi so that's another way that you can go there as well. Furthermore the regional development camp field test results will pick out a handfull of riders to go to CO Springs CO for a National Development Camp at which point you have a pretty good chance of being on the Nat'l Junior or Nat'l Development team that gets to race in Europe because a lot of the riders come from the camps or the winners or Nat'ls or are scouted at Toona or Fitchburg and the like and i think that Red River winners qualify for the World's Team that gets to go to Junior worlds, maybe that's the same as the Nat'l Development team i'm not sure it's all rather confusing and most junior riders aren't well informed about this stuff lol. I'd recommend taking the races and teams i mentioned and asking someone you know who has dealt with that stuff or would know who to talk to like your coach maybe, and there could be big races near you i don't even know about that are qualifiers for different things.
But yes it's all pretty confusing and USA cycling seems to have no desire to educate people about these things for some reason, it's even hard to figure some of this stuff out if you go to their website and know what you're looking for it can be hard or impossible to find lol.
Shoot me a PM if you wanna know anything else or i didn't speak clearly i had a lot of thoughts to try to get out at once heh, or you could respond here if it wouldn't be considered spamming the thread.
Best of luck with the racing, Shifty
P.S. i hit 1300 watts peak in a group ride today =]
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 17-04-2009 20:27
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I would think that My area would have no problem at all with getting a strong composite team together. My team's captain is a Cat 2 and is racing in Europe with the National team in May. Another rider from Specialized is a 3 time national TT Champ. Another guy from Specialized is going to Europe at some point this year as well. the guys who finished first and second at US National RR last year for the 17-18's? Yep both were from Nor Cal and one is on the Trek-Livestrong team and the other is on a national level u23 squad based out of Berkley. In fact as far as being a cat 3 I think I may be the only 17-18 who has ever won a race as a 17-18 who isn't a 3. The 15-16's around here might as well be 17-18's as they are just as fast, most of them are 3's and one of them was one of 3 13-14 cat 3's in the nation last year.
I doubt that it is a lack of talent and if someone really tried they could get a kick ass team.
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 17-04-2009 20:33
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Stage race for me starts tomorrow. 60 mile road race, 3.5 mile ITT, then the day after a 66 mile road race. All in all, a fun packed two days... hmm...
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| tomzk111 |
Posted on 17-04-2009 20:44
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That'll be totnes then RJC. Good luck! |
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| Shifty |
Posted on 17-04-2009 20:50
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Levi4life wrote:
I would think that My area would have no problem at all with getting a strong composite team together. My team's captain is a Cat 2 and is racing in Europe with the National team in May. Another rider from Specialized is a 3 time national TT Champ. Another guy from Specialized is going to Europe at some point this year as well. the guys who finished first and second at US National RR last year for the 17-18's? Yep both were from Nor Cal and one is on the Trek-Livestrong team and the other is on a national level u23 squad based out of Berkley. In fact as far as being a cat 3 I think I may be the only 17-18 who has ever won a race as a 17-18 who isn't a 3. The 15-16's around here might as well be 17-18's as they are just as fast, most of them are 3's and one of them was one of 3 13-14 cat 3's in the nation last year.
I doubt that it is a lack of talent and if someone really tried they could get a kick ass team.
Oh no doubt i think that a majority of the big names in junior cycling in the states come from either California or Colorado, i got the short end for sure, i used to live in San Raphael just outside San Francisco and my parents decided for some god awful reason to move to Ohio >_< and i didn't even know junior racing existed until a year or so ago, i always wished i got a sooner start because i think i have a ton of potential. We'll see how things go though
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 17-04-2009 21:09
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tomzk111 wrote:
That'll be totnes then RJC. Good luck!
Indeed so.
A little note of some of the names (not that many will know them).
Jon Tienan Locke (Plowman Craven)
The BMC UK team
Yanto Barker
Pendragon Kalas team
Lee Davis (Pinarello)
Rhys Lloyd (Rapha Condor)
Marcin Bialobolcki plus Sports Beans team
Team Corley Cycles (KFS last year)
Plus a multitude of Elites, 1st cats and 2nd cats. I fully expect to finish in the latter half of the field 
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| Sirium |
Posted on 17-04-2009 22:03
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rjc_43 wrote:
tomzk111 wrote:
That'll be totnes then RJC. Good luck!
Indeed so.
A little note of some of the names (not that many will know them).
Jon Tienan Locke (Plowman Craven)
The BMC UK team
Yanto Barker
Pendragon Kalas team
Lee Davis (Pinarello)
Rhys Lloyd (Rapha Condor)
Marcin Bialobolcki plus Sports Beans team
Team Corley Cycles (KFS last year)
Plus a multitude of Elites, 1st cats and 2nd cats. I fully expect to finish in the latter half of the field
Tough competition there, good luck, you have team-mates right? |
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 17-04-2009 22:07
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Yeah, but I'm definately the weakest of them. Two are elites, and the other's a 1st cat. Hey ho, lets see if I can't pull about a 1 litre large lung capacity out overnight...
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