Too Tall
07-01-2006, 06:50 PM
Today I promised I'd go on a training ride with this young gun I'm preparing for L.Placid. A group of Tri dewds...ouch. I can see it coming. The plan is to ride for 125 miles...I can see this coming a mile or three away. We blast off and are "pacelining" at 22-26 within 15 mins. and avg. 19.5mph in really hilly terrain for the first 60. Alternately I will pull at 32mph, glance back for the next guy giving them all the right queues to pull thru...what happens is they attack my pulls...***??? But at 32 mph I'd better hang on and see if I can just friggin' stay!!!
Slooooowly it dawns on me, this ain't the USCF buddy. THIS is training, these guys it turns out are all top age group finishers at Tri races all over the country and one of the guys is a top dog THREE times at Ironman Hawaii!
I'm slowly getting the feel for their pace and method. They do sit up but they do it at 22mph riding side by side...no draft and after some chit chat time to throwdown again. We stop for water , I begged, and go again. Time for 20 min. repeats up a friggin mtn. ???? No thanks, I head home.
Guys, these are hard men. Very different type of training but obviously it works and thought I'd relate and don't hate :) All were the best of sorts and only wish to work together to get FAST...it works...obviously.
Had to chuckle. Evertime I had an opportunity to dive a corner on the Spectrum I'd really nail it out of the saddle after and open (NO CHIT) 200' gap!!! Also, everytime I big ringed in response at the tops of climbs I dropped them like rocks. They had a laugh too "dewd, you know we can't corner or accelerate" ;) Best comment "Bro, you are pulling signals out of the playbook we don't know...us tri-athletes just point out holes and stuff" ;) Funny.
Had a great if not painful time. Nice guys. Uhhh, make that nice FAST guys.
Go ride with a tri-athlete and do it their way.
Slooooowly it dawns on me, this ain't the USCF buddy. THIS is training, these guys it turns out are all top age group finishers at Tri races all over the country and one of the guys is a top dog THREE times at Ironman Hawaii!
I'm slowly getting the feel for their pace and method. They do sit up but they do it at 22mph riding side by side...no draft and after some chit chat time to throwdown again. We stop for water , I begged, and go again. Time for 20 min. repeats up a friggin mtn. ???? No thanks, I head home.
Guys, these are hard men. Very different type of training but obviously it works and thought I'd relate and don't hate :) All were the best of sorts and only wish to work together to get FAST...it works...obviously.
Had to chuckle. Evertime I had an opportunity to dive a corner on the Spectrum I'd really nail it out of the saddle after and open (NO CHIT) 200' gap!!! Also, everytime I big ringed in response at the tops of climbs I dropped them like rocks. They had a laugh too "dewd, you know we can't corner or accelerate" ;) Best comment "Bro, you are pulling signals out of the playbook we don't know...us tri-athletes just point out holes and stuff" ;) Funny.
Had a great if not painful time. Nice guys. Uhhh, make that nice FAST guys.
Go ride with a tri-athlete and do it their way.