posted Nov 17, 2008

i have recently been introduced to tyre dragging, where by you strap a 35lb tyre to the back of your fixed wheel with 7ft ish of rope, find a quiet bit of road and a friend who is equally stupid, mark out a 50m section of road with run off.
get your mate to hold you up at start, do your own countdown and sprint as hard as poss for finish line, could poss do with your mate running alongside to catch at end. turn round still with tyre attached and sprint the other way, unhook the tyre and do a standing start effort for the 50, sit up and have a coast and come back. this is one 'pass'. remember to alternate start legs for efforts and on top of 100-150 mile a week normal training rides for the winter, feel the rewards come the bunch sprint at the end of a race next season.
sounds mental but is sado masochistic sporting fun at its finest!
i am also doing a couple of audaxes in jan/feb and some time trialling in march to get used to some race efforts before the season starts.
also some odds and sods down the gym when the little cuties are working! when its peeing down outside and miserable, a couple of cuties goes down very well!

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posted Nov 17, 2008

dunc, you could just find a suitable hill to do intervals on. A mate of mine used to ride all of four miles (just far enough to warm up) to a hill and pound out the intervals on it.

Soborsog, nothing beats winter hacking for suffering except doing it up and down the Downs on a 66" fixed when some of your mates are still on gears <oof>

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posted Nov 17, 2008

thx for the comments folks.
<working core muscles on the Swiss ball> ... what exactly do you do then ?
I get back ache after 3 hours fighting a headwind .. could be useful for me ?!

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posted Nov 17, 2008

without wanting to hijack the thread, anyone help me on this one?

Last couple of Sundays ive started getting a real cramp right along the whole of the outside of the right foot. I cant think of anything different (other than ive knocked it down a couple of gears to knock up the cadeance) that im doing but its bloody uncomfortable….
Any ideas?

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posted Nov 17, 2008

cleats need adjusting, ie stress being loaded on the foot due to incorrect foot positioning ?

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posted Nov 18, 2008

OvalOwl-I'll pass on a fixed wheel thanks! The Surrey Hills are tough enough.

Dunc1983-why not tie a 70lb. log behind you? As you gather speed and it starts to bounce and catch you up you can then practise your reaction times.

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posted Nov 19, 2008

Paul R - don't turbo in the house - you'll melt into sweat (well I do, its the only thing I do well, sweat that is) At least in the garage its cool. Get some music going and hit the intervals in the garage!

Night riding is fun but is best done with mates as 4 or more decent front lights makes it like daylight (lupine, Joystick etc)

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posted Nov 20, 2008

might try that sob, cheers!
apart from Steep Hill in Lincoln (which really is!) lincolnshire is a bit flat, the lumpy bits around me i can do on 92 inch without too much heartache.
the tyre dragging is an old method of dave legrys' and really does help with technique and power doing 6-10 passes with 82 inch.

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