Time Trial Pacing – Why is it Important? Ever wondered if you gave it your best during a time trial? I mean really be able to get a definite number if you did or did not? One of the best features of a powermeter, besides having a complete overview of how well you are training […]
Category: The Training Hours
Categories
Training on Tubular Tyres
Most of the times when you think tubular tyres you imagine fine hand craftsmanship, supple ride quality and of course time consuming gluing. The first two attributes is something you want, and let’s face anything that spells inconvenience, you run as far away from as possible. Therefore gluing tubulars is usually reserved for your precious […]
In my previous post, I explained how the body responds to different type of exercise (physiological/training) stress. Improvement is based on that response. You need to be able to evaluate and quantify the stress you put your body through day after day as you train ie “How fit do I get after 1h riding at Z2 or […]
The Basic Principle You train, you physically stress your body, you get tired, you recover, you supercompensate, and come back stronger. Train again and you get progressively better. If you don’t get tired, you don’t need to recover. If you don’t recover, you don’t super compensate and you will not improve. It is as simple […]
Categories
Season 2012 The Numbers
When you commit a lot of hours into a hobby such as cycling, it is nice to get tangible results. A great season or not what quite you hoped for, it is nice to have a good idea of why? The beauty of training with a power meter is that it forces you to keep […]
Categories
2012 Cycling Season In Review
Going back to January or even a week or two before I first started training I set a couple of goals that I wanted to achieve for myself. Join a cycling team/club Draft up and follow a training program Learn what it takes to be self coached and self sufficient as an athlete. Start the National Time Trial Championships […]