Citius
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Unfortunately, blazed's skills are not of the type that ought to be passed on.
Fastest, oldest cyclists?
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Unfortunately, blazed's skills are not of the type that ought to be passed on.
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
- Location
- Suffolk
I don't know about the hindering progress bit, For me its all helping progress.
There's a whole bunch of us who do "base miles" rides, generally useful for company, talking about stuff- tactics, training, kit, whatever, you can pick up so much info and advice from the senior members.
We started a "turbo club" once a week we around 6 of us meet up and do a session during the winter (aswell as doing our own stuff other days) great again for gauging your fitness or learning other sessions.
There's other events through the year - end of TT season meal, club Xmas curry, awards evening, and other stuff.
Club TT's every week through the summer - the social side aswell as the racing, the banter, again the friendly advice, and when you do well - the congratulations.
When you compete in team time trial events - the feeling of team work "pulling your weight" for others to get to the finish, representing your club - all with massive highs.
Sorry I can't really see any lows!
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blazed
220lb+
I'm not going to limit my knowledge to one specific club, once my online coaching program is launched anyone with an internet connection will be within reach.
If I rode with a club I know I would get frustrated. My strava segment times in comparison to apparent strong local clubs are superior.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Do you bother with any accurate measurements? Or is it just Strava?
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blazed
220lb+
Yes.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
They may not all be using strava though. Have a go with the quick group, it'll be a nice sense of satisfaction when you leave them in the dust if nothing else.
iandg
Legendary Member
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
You spelled 'No' wrong...
Why would belonging to a club hinder you?
What bait?
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
"when I get injured it surprises me" Some people are lucky and they get few injuries during their earlier (ie into their late 30s say) sporting activities. After that most people get injuries of various magnitude and take a bit more time to recover. My advice would be to find a good physio and do (ie adhere to the programme of) the exercises he/she advises. Do not just 'hope it'll get better': get to the physio. Think it's fair to say the physically constrained nature of cycling means that, compared to other sports where you're pushing beyond the aerobic threshold at least some of the time, there are less activity injuries (though more 'crash' injuries). These injuries reduce/interupt the sustained levels of training that an athlete must undertake to become or remain 'elite'.
"retain all my fitness . . into their 60's" "Only minimal physiological declines occur before mid 40s, particularly when we’re talking about an athlete’s musculature. Any declines in athletic potential and performance that happen until that point are largely due to a drop in the athlete’s VO2max." Rewriting @Banjo the only way you will be at your peak of fitness at 60 is if you were less fit (ie did much less training) during the ages 12-59. But what is fitness? You need to consider not just the physical aspects but the mental and psychological. And how do you want to measure physical fitness? As others have alluded to, @blazed your 10 second supremacy may need to morph to longer stuff as the ability to generate power will inexorably reduce with age (over, say, 40), or at least your self-recognition of fulfillment will need to refocus. And this is the way I counsel you to "push on through the aging process" - take a multi-facetted approach. Look for cyclists that have no early years pedigree/palmares and are now competitive in the vets competitions - for you, those would be aspirational examples - if it's inspiration you need, to avoid "ruin[ing] it for [you]".
I did several Three Peaks Yacht Races bitd including several on sh*t fast multihulls (cats and tris)(and others on the winning monohull). Once you've gone over 25knots with the spinnaker up in one of those, pootling along in a yacht with a keel is not as much fun, but the joy of sailing is not "ruined" and to write it off ("I could not imagine cycling") is premature.
You've said 'for racers, speed is all'. Not sure what sort of racing you do, @blazed but as you age, when you reach an age where you can enter veterans races, you can still try to kick a*se in those, and if you keep at it, one after another the other aging duffers fall off their perch and you are left as the best.
As a suggestion for you to not neglect core and flexibility exercises (which I did for many years), as @SpokeyDokey said: "Can you still put your boxers on whilst standing up and without having to lean against something for balance?" You will probably find (and I know that this will be difficult to believe at your young virulent age) that this and putting your socks on is more important than maintaining or improving your peak power. After all if you can't get your socks and cycle shorts on then it's going to be a painful few hours cycling. It's still great to bang out 9 days averaging 110 miles a day though and get 1/3 off the rail fare back.
Do not stress or worry about this: doing so will just increase your decline. Doing more training will counter this inevitable trend for years, by which time your perspective will have altered. Let us hope your imagination still shines through.
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Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
I have loads of KOM's on Strava and I am not quick. I know I am not quick by TT'ing, hill climbing and racing against others with a number on my back, not pinned to my handlebars for the photo.
Citius
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I took a strava KoM from a local 1st cat last year, and yet my licence still says 3rd cat on it. Am I quicker than him? Strava thinks so - but I've been in the same races as him and I am clearly not even close. They guy was probably out for a recovery ride.
that's me that is totally agree.
