Thats how it usually goes, climbers are not very often good sprinters and good sprinters are rarely good climbers. If you are light weight climber you are obviously lost muscle cells but you can still practice sprints and improve that part to certain level.I'm almost a pure climber so my Sprint is like a child's.
Checked out Dylan Johnson on youtube @bobinski ..... flip he's dull! He may know his stuff, but I struggled to get through whole videos. Anyway, re the FTP video he did confirm that the workouts I'm doing (the 2x20 mins @ FTP) is a standard workout to improve your FTP (I've also got workouts for 3x15 mins which he also said was a standard workout)Unfortunately he also re-iterated the need to mix hi-intensity with zone 2 rides so I'll need to learn to stick the trainer in zone 2 ERG mode and pootle and ignore the other riders coming past me
My main caveat to this guy is, whilst he quotes a lot of science, if you look at the articles he refers too, most of the time it's the same piece of research from 2010 (there may be more but I only saw that one pop up in multiple videos). The sceptic in me thinks he has found a piece of research that matches his own view and he'll keep pushing that one out. I'd have been more convinced by his arguments if he had quoted a wider source of research (as he's trying to prove his arguments are based on science).
Anyway, thanks for linking to him, he had a bit of interesting stuff to say, but I think I'll go back to GCN and Chris Pritchard as they're more my style of 'info-tainment'
Now, do I do an FTP workout later, or a zone 2 ride?
It's a funny one, many say if you're a Rouiler/climber type of guy you may as well just keep recruiting slow twitch muscle fibres instead of fast ones. The pro peloton does have a few rare members who seem to be light weights with a decent Sprint though.
The four-kilometer mark was run at 5-6 watts per second. It cost 12 riders, including Morten Valgren (DBR), Lennart Kruse and legendary cycling powerhouse, Peter Robinson (CycleChat).Write up about the B-race. @peterob gets mentioned... Unfortunately as one of the riders being dropped.
https://www.feltet.dk/nyheder/fusion_development_fik_perfekt_start_i_spaendende_b-loeb/
Google translated version:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.feltet.dk/nyheder/fusion_development_fik_perfekt_start_i_spaendende_b-loeb/
Google translate fail - it showed as "per second" for me as well! But it clearly says per kilo in the original Danish - unless "kilo" also means second??Yes, no wonder you got dropped if only doing 5-6 watts per second.
Hmmm I think that one was a glitch only on Pete's computer!!🤔Strange... But with the other added "powerhouse" stuff, Google translate is apparently not to be trusted at all.
Hey - less of the 'old'
Saturday is the London Pretzel, and Sunday is the Bambino Fondo course in Watopia. They're on the Companion app if you find the event on there.
Thanks - I was looking on the website. Yes, can see them now on the app
Oh yeah, sorry I only loked at the time I was interested in and assumed all would be on the same route each dayThanks - I was looking on the website. Yes, can see them now on the app
Actually, there's multiple routes:
1 - London Triple Loops
2 - London Pretzel
3 - Watopia Dust in the Wind
4 - Watopia Big Loop
5 - Watopia Bambino Fondo
6 - London Pretzel
7 - Watopia Bambino Fondo
8 - London Pretzel
9 - Watopia Dust in the Wind
10 - London Triple Loops
11 - Watopia Big Loop
12 - London Pretzel
I'd hate what it might say about me then, dropped after 0.3km
