Increasing performance-strangely worried

[MikeG]

You have a training programme, and yet you smoke. There is a profound conflict going on there. Either you are taking riding seriously, or you aren't, and handicapping yourself by smoking suggests that your training and your results aren't as important to you as you would have us believe.

 

[Rob3rt]

Here you go Jason.

Have a pop at this. Look who is number 8. Now that is farkin fast.

How have I become involved in this? I'm not the one with my wang out!

 

[MikeG]

Thats first and last ten miler. Heck I'm riding a China alloy POS frame with 6600 ultegra. Not likely to get a TT bike.

You don't need a TT bike, or the gear, to do a TT. You just compare your results with the guys of a similar age and on similar gear to you. There are people in my club doing 27 minute TTs on 30 year old steel frame fixies: and they're 60+.

 

[JasonHolder]

You have a training programme, and yet you smoke. There is a profound conflict going on there. Either you are taking riding seriously, or you aren't, and handicapping yourself by smoking suggests that your training and your results aren't as important to you as you would have us believe.

Smoking doesnt impede performance other than slowing recovery.

 

[MikeG]

Smoking doesnt impede performance other than slowing recovery.

Yeah righto. You've got some science behind that big statement, have you?

 

[JasonHolder]

You don't need a TT bike, or the gear, to do a TT. You just compare your results with the guys of a similar age and on similar gear to you. There are people in my club doing 27 minute TTs on 30 year old steel frame fixies: and they're 60+.

Great. Ill get back to you once I've been riding for 8 weeks OK?

 

[MikeG]

Great. Ill get back to you once I've been riding for 8 weeks OK?

Actually, I'd be quite pleased if you didn't.

 

[KneesUp]

Thats first and last ten miler. Heck I'm riding a China alloy POS frame with 6600 ultegra. Not likely to get a TT bike.

We have five bikes in our family. Your crankset alone costs more than I paid in total for all five bikes. Don't use equipment as an excuse - especially when it's perfectly decent.

 

[JasonHolder]

Yeah righto. You've got some science behind that big statement, have you?

No ive got run times

 

[Saluki]

Thats first and last ten miler. Heck I'm riding a China alloy POS frame with 6600 ultegra. Not likely to get a TT bike.

I didn't have anything funky to race on way back when, certainly not a TT bike. Alloy frame, 10 speed shifters on the down tube and so on and so forth. My Defy is way more up to date, I'd have done much better with it. Even so, it was a trick bit of kit back then. You don't need a TT bike. Club TTs can be very much a 'run what you brung' affair

 

[Saluki]

Smoking doesnt impede performance other than slowing recovery.

Really? State your source.

 

[MikeG]

No ive got run times

But what can you compare them against, Jason? You have no way of knowing what those times would have been if you didn't smoke.

 

[ayceejay]

What GPS device do you have Jason. Remember you were going to buy a HRM the other day (when you bought the tyres) did you look at a Garmin that can do both?

 

[JasonHolder]

We have five bikes in our family. Your crankset alone costs more than I paid in total for all five bikes. Don't use equipment as an excuse - especially when it's perfectly decent.

Oh really... Hows that going for you? If its not apparent already, I'm not interested in riding average. I'm interested in breaking people. Can't be done by me in TT

 

[JasonHolder]

But what can you compare them against, Jason? You have no way of knowing what those times would have been if you didn't smoke.

True. Fair enough. But Any better times and I'd be making my way to the Olympics. So matters not