I thought you'd be doing something wrong if you're were able to ride without your neck aching on a TT bike!
Not if you strengthen up the counter muscles that are causing the overused ones to ache.
I thought you'd be doing something wrong if you're were able to ride without your neck aching on a TT bike!
The Tron is tricky to get, but well worth it for this alone. It's just does everything 'well'.TRON for everything unless it is AdZ or Ventop.
SandbaggerStarted a race with my boss today in C group, was able to drift to the very back of 250 strong bunch and work my way up through it again.
Pffft! There's a bunch of them around but I'm 40 now so not a spring chicken... Maybe shouldn't be doing rides with my HR like this, but then again having a healthy heart is pretty important! My top end threshold seems to have creeped into 180bpm the last few months, being able to go into it and sustain, then back out without blowing. I only really saw it that high when sprinting before and couldn't generally recover!So many FTP beasts in this thread I hate your youth !
Local one to me who is good probably in reach for you Dan - http://bikefitsolutions.co.uk/bikefit-services/Where are you that fits are only £180?
Closer to £350 nearer London!
The Tron is tricky to get, but well worth it for this alone. It's just does everything 'well'.
Slow and steady does it. But also if you're riding outside/garage it's worth getting a calibration done.
Sandbagger
With your outside riding I'd put your FTP at 300W or more mate, your riding looks hellova lot faster than mine. Although I know I'm 'slower' outside than on Zwift, might just be you're faster lol
I know but for 112 miles I want to be tucked for as much as possible whilst being able to walk (run!) when I get off at the other end! And at my age it aint easy son.
Failed. ~4.8w/kgHmm I've got like 800k to spend... and need to get something better. Especially because tomorrow attempting sub-40 AdZ with a mate... He reckons we'll need to hold 5w/kg. I've done that for about 7 mins before... eek!
Nice. Good look with it, thats a good idea actually thinking about how my training is going. I've done a few Olympic distances but not the halfs yet.I hear that! My neck was in tatters when I did my 112 mile ride last weekend.
Having a go at a 56 then a half marathon this weekend.
Great effort all the same!Failed. ~4.8w/kg
Failed. ~4.8w/kg
Never really even done that kinda effort for 20mins, besides maybe my go up Sa Calobra but I didn't have power on the bike then. I was mostly holding or 3-6m behind my racing snake mate's wheel. Did a few turns for him but even he just missed the sub 40 marker. Perhaps if we had a bigger group. It was just the two of us up the climb.
It does motivate me to actually go and do sub 5:30 Box (real world) this year though. 5:40 before (without power data) and 5:56 at 393w last January in poor conditions.
Failed. ~4.8w/kg
Never really even done that kinda effort for 20mins, besides maybe my go up Sa Calobra but I didn't have power on the bike then. I was mostly holding or 3-6m behind my racing snake mate's wheel. Did a few turns for him but even he just missed the sub 40 marker. Perhaps if we had a bigger group. It was just the two of us up the climb.
It does motivate me to actually go and do sub 5:30 Box (real world) this year though. 5:40 before (without power data) and 5:56 at 393w last January in poor conditions.
Failed. ~4.8w/kg
Never really even done that kinda effort for 20mins, besides maybe my go up Sa Calobra but I didn't have power on the bike then. I was mostly holding or 3-6m behind my racing snake mate's wheel. Did a few turns for him but even he just missed the sub 40 marker. Perhaps if we had a bigger group. It was just the two of us up the climb.
It does motivate me to actually go and do sub 5:30 Box (real world) this year though. 5:40 before (without power data) and 5:56 at 393w last January in poor conditions.
Hoping to actually head outside today, but I need to put a small session in as I will unlock 'Working from home' (or whatever the 14 days straight badge is) which is funny, as I'm one of the few that isn't actually working from home right now! I'm also gradually ticking off the map achievements. I think I'm at about 20/25% at the moment. Does anyone else achievement hunt?
For me riding early is a no-go but so many of the 3R lot race around 6pm there must be plenty of riders around for things, just I never look. For the series' it's usually what the club is pushing, which tends to be WTRL and their own series' rather than many others at the moment. Usually ridden around 7/8pm. I know BRT do a few series of things, I think maybe more crits than anything and they're quite a bit earlier. So for me at the moment it has been TDZ and WTRL TTT. If I was able to ride Tuesdays more frequently it would be then in the WTRL ZRL.Are there any go to race series that you always try to enter? I'm usually able to jump on by 5ish which seems a bit earlier than most in here. But think one race a on a weeknight for a little while longer will help with training, plus my mental fatigue, always good to get the endorphines and testosterone firing.
Haha I did hint at that a little but was just trying to encourage you to keep at it and not get too discouraged. We all know what it's like for motivation when the numbers can seem low.Hiya, thanks for that. I've recalibrated the power meters and the drop in power is definitely all me <snip>
Changing subject back to your maximum HR comments above, 'spring chicken' is a relative term - I'm 55 and mine tops out at about 180 (according to the fenix, must try a chest strap monitor sometime) so wouldn't worry about it if everything feels OK.
Haha you defo are but you do a lot more group riding than me. When I group ride it's unusual for it to be more than 5-6 of us and always very social so not an absolute drag/effort fest where getting a tow matters!Haha maybe I'm just better at hanging a wheel than you? When I ride with my mate Gary he can about 1mm from my tyre we are that consistent with it. I'll glue myself to someone wheels out of pure hatred for their existence and their whole family.
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My 4iiii reads lower than low and my vortex high as ****?
The summer will tell as it feels like I'm getting a good workout. Not looking forward to this TTT tonight
Do Box with those numbers mate and it'll be superb! Great effort and a tall ask without some specific training towards sustaining that while on an incline. Huge effort and numbers regardless, well done!Failed. ~4.8w/kg
Never really even done that kinda effort for 20mins, besides maybe my go up Sa Calobra but I didn't have power on the bike then. I was mostly holding or 3-6m behind my racing snake mate's wheel. Did a few turns for him but even he just missed the sub 40 marker. Perhaps if we had a bigger group. It was just the two of us up the climb.
It does motivate me to actually go and do sub 5:30 Box (real world) this year though. 5:40 before (without power data) and 5:56 at 393w last January in poor conditions.
Good! Hopefully that's it solved!First ride with Windows 10, didn’t crash! FPS seemed a little lower, will have to double check all my graphics settings!
HAha yeah WTF was up with your HRM, looks like it had 6 minutes of madness!My wee baws wrote checques my legs couldn't cash haha. So much for 20% above FTP on the front, I was sat at at 4w/kg on the wheel a lot whilst he's sitting at 5w/kg soooo much. Could in theory go as low as 3 when he was at 5. Good bit of a pull out but really wanted a bit more power but tired legs stopped play. My HR sort of shows the tiredness as it was shown mostly tempo with a bit of threshold. My HR monitor decided to show 214bpm for a while so I have a fair bit of anaerobic.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4808765223/overview
I think it’s 5km per day for 14 days but double check.
Decent! I can't even picture doing 5w/kg for 40 minutes!
My wee baws wrote checques my legs couldn't cash haha. So much for 20% above FTP on the front, I was sat at at 4w/kg on the wheel a lot whilst he's sitting at 5w/kg soooo much. Could in theory go as low as 3 when he was at 5. Good bit of a pull out but really wanted a bit more power but tired legs stopped play. My HR sort of shows the tiredness as it was shown mostly tempo with a bit of threshold. My HR monitor decided to show 214bpm for a while so I have a fair bit of anaerobic.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4808765223/overview