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Prospect Park Weekday Morning Training

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i'll be out at GAP mañana 6a - looking to do some easy laps.
Thanks for the clarification. This makes a lot more sense. I'll probably do these tomorrow. Also, this will help me figure out where the start / finish line is! 
Here we go again. Try to keep those TT efforts consistent...
Tuesday - 2 lap TT efforts. I want you to start at the start / finish line. do 2 laps as hard as you can. Rest for one lap, repeat. Try to make the second effort as good as the first. DO NOT DRAFT EACH OTHER! Remember to press on the downhills and back off on the uphills.

Wednesday - Group riding - paceline 2x2 and rotating. If you don't know what these are, look here: http://www.westchestercycling.com/PDF/pacelines1.pdf

Thursday - Hard Efforts! After warming up for two laps, I want you to do 8 hill climbs on center drive. Start by the containers on the bottom and go as hard as you can for 30 seconds. Then turn around (safely), get to the bottom and do it again.

Have fun folks!
I'm planning on Center Drive drills tomorrow morning.  6am, see you there.*

*Meet at GAP to start warm up laps.
Blech not going to make it this morn. Trainer it is again tonight.
Going to try and start meeting up with you guys, though 6AM is around an hour and a half earlier than my normal park routine. 

Does anyone ride between 7:30 and 9 on a regular basis?
@jesslash Pre-7am Prospect Park is the best! Especially considering the construction on the east side. I was out there 5:45-6:45am this morning and didn't encounter a single car, which was great considering all the swerve-prone leg coordination drills I was doing and the fact that I was being kinda slow in general. Will be out there tomorrow, meeting the KCC women's team at 6am for weekend race openers.
ill be out tomorrow am doing some slower laps :) 
If it is dry, 2 lap TT efforts x2 for me.
Repeat last week one more time.
That is all.
Coach.
Nice running into Canadian Mike and Erika for warmup laps and Anna Maria while doing TTs (sorry I didn't stay and chat).

Will be out there for paceline drills if dry again tomorrow.
I'll be out in the a.m. tomorrow.  Will join the paceliners if there's a group, followed by some hard efforts on Center Drive if I have some juice left.
Happy to ride between 7:30-9am, always. Text me at 734 904 2972. I'm going to try to join the women's team most Fridays (though I'm sadly out of town now) at 6am but otherwise would much rather do the workouts later in the day. 
@EmilyAtwater‌ if you are following Coach Ragot's plan save your legs for center drive intervals on Thursday.

Good advice @David, but I can't do Thursdays at the moment so I'm tweaking things for the next couple weeks for myself.  We'll see what I actually do tomorrow.  I can talk a big game the day before...
Ah gotcha, well hope to see you tomorrow for paceline rotations!
hey @meredith I will be out there 8-1030am. Hopefully with @paige. Not sure what youre getting in to, but if it makes sense, maybe we can share a lap or 6 :)
Woof I am out this morn, sorry.
I'd love to share 6 laps with you two! But I'm headed to Princeton all day (got back from Denver late last night). Gonna shoot for Thursday/Friday. Hope to ride w/you soon! 
hey @meredith I will be out there 8-1030am. Hopefully with @paige. Not sure what youre getting in to, but if it makes sense, maybe we can share a lap or 6 :)

Only 3 of us out at 6am this morning - Emily, Eric M, and me. It was breezy.

Light turnout for a real paceline so we took turns with 30 second pulls and then decided to do pyramid intervals. They were fun, especially riding uphill into a 20mph wind.

I should be out tomorrow for some worst.
Yep, made it out, but was stiff/sluggish.  Thanks fellas for going easy on me, good to meet you.  Hopefully less wind next time. 
Wish I lived in Brooklyn, so I could go out on these awesome morning rides in PP!!
Going to do the intervals on Center drive tomorrow around 7:30 or 8. Holler!
I'm gonna try and join the six am crew tmrw morning. Going to be riding endurance
The Worst intervals mostly by myself though I saw Tim on center drive doing his own thing. Nice running into Jeff C (aka Batman) and Andy and Dale as well. I may be out tomorrow for easy social riding if not raining.
I'll try and make it out in the morning for an hour or two of endurance. If not... I'll be there at night. Hope to run into someone there!

- Just got up. If anybody wants to do 2 hours starting around 6:30 or 7, I'll be there!
I'll most likely be out at 6a tomorrow for some slooooow recovery laps. 
Rest week people so this means:
Tuesda - ride a paceline together.
Wednesday - 2 lapp TT efforts again. Two of them please.
Thursday - Back to working on the paceline.

When doing the TT efforts - DO NOT DRAFT each other. I repeat - DO NOT DRAFT.

When doing the Paceline - focus on being smooth with getting off the front and back onto the line moving forward.

Cheers,
Coach.
I'm off-sched so I'll be out tomorrow doing some repeats on Center Dr.  Maybe see people during warm-up and cool-down.
I'm sticking to the gameplan and doing 2x2lap TTs if it is dry.