May 31, 2013 at 02:17 PM
@davidyang Just so you know the group rides are generally Tues-Thurs. Usually on Friday's people do their own thing.
Prospect Park Weekday Morning Training
May 31, 2013 at 02:19 PM
Openers! How are you supposed to race without openers? Won't your guadz essplode?
May 31, 2013 at 02:45 PM
guys stop training so hard...not cool, im getting jaleous.
May 31, 2013 at 02:52 PM
I second this. Geez I'm lazy.alyoshas said:guys stop training so hard...not cool, im getting jaleous.
May 31, 2013 at 06:18 PM
David - I was out at 6am, but yeah since I was doing 10x1 intervals and you said TT laps I knew we wouldn't be riding together anyway so I didn't wait @ GAP.
Man, those intervals were hard - I felt like a glob of soggy cereal doing the circuit around the bowl. Next week will, I hope, be better.
I saw the Lululemon squad roll up Union towards the park as I was drinking my coffee, after my failed attempt to rejoin the PS Food Co-op.
May 31, 2013 at 06:25 PM
@tito - yeah man, figured you were off in your own corner of the park suffering with those intervals. See you next week for whatever other scary stuff ragot has planned.
Jun 03, 2013 at 08:15 PM
Any plan for tomorrow? I'll be out @ 6am regardless - I'll do more intervals if there is no training plan.
Jun 04, 2013 at 01:41 AM
been out of town so haven't touched the bike since Thurs-- will be at GAP at 6 to ride w/ whoever's down.
Jun 04, 2013 at 01:45 AM
Week 10
Ugh...
Tuesday - anaerobic efforts. warm up for 20 minutes. Then go to the inner loop (center drive - right past the S/F line). Starting at the bottom, go as hard as you can up to the main road. Turn around and go back to where you started, repeat immediately. Complete 6-8 of these if you can.
Wednesday - NOT TT DAY - Just ride to get 1.5 hours of group riding in. Nothing too hard so you can manage tomorrow.
Thursday - anaerobic efforts (AGAIN). warm up for 20 minutes. Then go to the inner loop (center drive - right past the S/F line). Starting at the bottom, go as hard as you can up to the main road. Turn around and go back to where you started, repeat immediately. Complete 6-8 of these if you can. .
Friday openers - just do 2 1min efforts and 2 30s efforts. Otherwise, just don't do them and just ride up the hill hard a couple of times during your ride (about 1 min anyway!)
Saturday and Sunday - ride/race
Ugh...
Tuesday - anaerobic efforts. warm up for 20 minutes. Then go to the inner loop (center drive - right past the S/F line). Starting at the bottom, go as hard as you can up to the main road. Turn around and go back to where you started, repeat immediately. Complete 6-8 of these if you can.
Wednesday - NOT TT DAY - Just ride to get 1.5 hours of group riding in. Nothing too hard so you can manage tomorrow.
Thursday - anaerobic efforts (AGAIN). warm up for 20 minutes. Then go to the inner loop (center drive - right past the S/F line). Starting at the bottom, go as hard as you can up to the main road. Turn around and go back to where you started, repeat immediately. Complete 6-8 of these if you can. .
Friday openers - just do 2 1min efforts and 2 30s efforts. Otherwise, just don't do them and just ride up the hill hard a couple of times during your ride (about 1 min anyway!)
Saturday and Sunday - ride/race
Jun 04, 2013 at 01:55 AM
Better eat a light breakfast....
Jun 04, 2013 at 12:10 PM
The Worst: A New Hope
Jim, Harry, Thierry, Jay, Dave S., myself, and a fashionably late Craig.
Warmed up for 1.5 laps and hit Center Dr. for The Worst drills. Same as last week, they hurt like a mofo. My left thigh felt like it was about to seize up after the 3rd, but magically after the 4th it decided to fall in line. I may have to stretch/massage/warm up longer before doing these again on Thursday.
Dave S. wanted to go for a longer ride so bounced after 1 or 2. Jim, Thierry, and Jay bounced after 6. Craig came in during our 3rd or 4th and Harry and I stuck around with him for a total of 8.
Jun 04, 2013 at 12:55 PM
Greetings from piermont- yeah I could tell by the end of the warmups that sprints weren't gonna be in the cards for me today. Holy crap it's windy on the Hudson. Saw some other kissenas on the gwb around 730am.
See y'all tmrw-
See y'all tmrw-
Jun 04, 2013 at 02:47 PM
Do intervals count as anaerobic?
And is tomorrow's workout aerobic?
(trying to start learning this science stuff)
Jun 04, 2013 at 02:57 PM
Intervals can be either, it depends on the length - over 3 minutes is aerobic, under is anaerobic
tomorrow is endurance (think 4 hour pace) which qualifies as aerobic
Tito, I know the search function isn't working, but JP and myself have really explicated the different jargon and theory of training. I'll see if I can find stuff.
tomorrow is endurance (think 4 hour pace) which qualifies as aerobic
Tito, I know the search function isn't working, but JP and myself have really explicated the different jargon and theory of training. I'll see if I can find stuff.
Jun 04, 2013 at 03:24 PM
1.5 hours of endurance group riding on Wednesday morning? i'm in.....and hopefully this will kick start me doing more more mornings and fewer late evenings....miss the routine.
Jun 04, 2013 at 03:56 PM
I'm in for tomorrow.
Jun 04, 2013 at 07:19 PM
(Search should be fixed - holler if it ain't)
Jun 05, 2013 at 02:34 AM
Legs are fried, might join for the initial laps but if you guys start going hard I'm going to just spin easy and wave as you lap me a few times.
Jun 05, 2013 at 02:46 PM
Hope you all made it out. I woke up with the 530a alarm and just couldn't do it. See you tomorrow for The Worst II: The Worsening..."This time it's personal"
Jun 05, 2013 at 03:20 PM
this morning was fun.
Jun 05, 2013 at 03:25 PM
nice to see everyone - felt good to be back in PP in the morning. i stuck around for 3 laps of paceline with the group before dialing it back to protect ye olde goat heart....20+ miles in all. i'll be back!
Jun 05, 2013 at 04:22 PM
Yah, 'twas good. The rotating paceline needs work, but it got better throughout the workout. Nice to have Ragot there to keep everything orderly.
Jun 05, 2013 at 05:33 PM
That was indeed fun, learned alot and nice to put names to faces & vice versa.
started cramping where the hamstrings meet the glutes (yech) during one of the hill climbs around 6:45; had hoped it'd go away but only got worse.
Jun 05, 2013 at 09:58 PM
It was a good team ride, nice to see everyone, particularly Eloy !
Jun 06, 2013 at 02:53 AM
Eloy? Riiiiight. And Sasquatch was there with Hoffa riding an invisible Citroen as directer sportif...
Jun 06, 2013 at 10:14 AM
there were some strange sightings yesterday morning for sure...
best though:
after the group breaks up slightly going up the hill, Eddy Burlem who was sitting on with some others says to me "nice job keeping things together."
My reaction "I'm not sure how to react to that Eddy." Never saw him again.
I didn't know whether to tell him to F#$% off or explain its not my ride.
Jun 06, 2013 at 11:30 AM
@dStearns(5jne) v. good2 see U out &about...best2 coddle the ticker &enJoY the KCC draft/slipstream, thnx Ragot&Nelson as ever.
note: rotating behind Ragot = cone of blissful silence~Tito&Condon not so much!
-h;-)
note: rotating behind Ragot = cone of blissful silence~Tito&Condon not so much!
-h;-)
Jun 06, 2013 at 12:09 PM
I was out this morning - got there a little late but ran into J Podwell from Major Taylor who stuck around for some wheel sucking and chitchat. Good to open up the legs after FBF
Jun 06, 2013 at 01:52 PM
This morning's roll call - Tito, Thierry, Bruce, Jim, Jay, myself, and the ever so fashionably late Craig.
Third time doing The Worst. No muscles seized and everyone was going super hard. By the 4th or 5th one I kept looking down at my sprockets and marveling at how pathetically hard it was trying to spin a 21t.
Not getting easier but I'm more mentally prepared. I'm afraid of what comes after The Worst.
Third time doing The Worst. No muscles seized and everyone was going super hard. By the 4th or 5th one I kept looking down at my sprockets and marveling at how pathetically hard it was trying to spin a 21t.
Not getting easier but I'm more mentally prepared. I'm afraid of what comes after The Worst.
Jun 06, 2013 at 02:11 PM
Yah, the Worst is really good training for local races - invaluable for Floyd. I actually *enjoyed* today.