Fitness Level y'all!

Guest

How far and how fast would you be riding with that ave heart rate of 142?

I'll post my ave HR from my next ride, which will probably be tomrorow arvo, i've got a damn meeting at 8am *:-[ I hate trainign after work!

cheers!

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Me 1½ year ago:  ;D

Max HR: 195
Resting HR: 37
Vo2Max: 87
Watt/kg: 7.8
Weight: 79kg


Today:  :-/

Max HR: 195 (I think)
Resting HR: Above 50
Vo2Max: Below 50
Watt/kg: Don't know
Weight: 87kg

Vo2

Sheez, a drop in Vo2Max by 37 marks! What happened, if I may ask?

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Guest

Only one lung workin these days?

I think most biker riders keep eating the same amount of food when they stop riding/racing. Weight is easy to put on but bloody hard to take off  :

cheers!

Guest

Yes, how did that happen?  ???
Well, I stopped training and racing completely after the National Championships in 2000. From a very fit young man I turned into one of the laziest young men on planet earth over a night. Now, a year and a half later, I'm partying instead of riding my bike. I have a lot to catch up there  ;D

Vo2

Vo2Max of 87! That puts you right up there! I hope we can motivate you to get riding again?

(btw - nice site you have )

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well it thought id update my stats  ;D ;D.
My resting heat rate now is 40-43 bmp  ;D ;D ;D ;D. any one else been improving? can i get a sub 40 hr? ???  . well id better get goin then  

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My resting HR was 45 bpm (taken 15 or so minutes after waking up...sitting down) last time I checked

Guest

Huh when I was more serious during '94 (When I went overseas) I recorded a low of 30 bpm resting but it was usually between 35 to 38 bpm. Started training that year at around 48. Max was 206 on a hell of a climb.

Top end was 110kph. I came off the bike a bit later in a hairpin bend. Otherwise I often hit the upper 90's on a hill just behind my house. It is 600 meters form top to bottom and a bitch to climb. Done it once in a hilclimb TT in 3m 5sec. Down in under 40 sec. Actually I blew the front tyre once at the lip of this downhill at round 45kph. Unable to brake too easily I ended up only stopping at the bottom with a top speed of 70kph. And that was with a flat front tyre. I set my back barke after that to actually be able to lock up.

Slowest climb OKW 2002. 7kph at times.... ;D

Will think of more useless info to add later.... ;D

Guest

hey what grade is OKW ? i found a new climb near my place and its HARD . its about 6km at 10% all up  ;D. it averaged 7-10 kph up it and i did not stop  ;D ;D. It was around 33 degrees c too   . So Wazat what sort of training did you do when you where at your best? as i want to get good too.

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Nicholas - Most of my training was done alone against the watch. As I work shifts I was able to do a lot of riding. I did plenty of distance and averaged about 70 kilos per day up till I went overseas. That was during the first six months of the year.

My usual ride was to the next town which is 50 kilo's away. Problem is that there is a climb of around 12 kilo's most of it is steeper than OKW. This I however climbed at round 20 to 25 kph depending on the conditions. If it was too hot then it would be a little slower. I would always try and do the ride there in under 1:40 which was fast going for the road out. I actually made it in 1:15 once but it was a good day with a great tail wind for the last 15 km. My back ride was also good with a 52 min ride. We had some pro's ride a race along the same road once and though it was about 4 kilo's further their winning time was 2:30 for the out and back route. So I actually did it faster. Difference was they had no tail wind. So yeah I was quite fit. As reference my second fastest time was 1:25 out so it was quite a difference.

Besides the long distance I did a lot of time-trials over short distances. Our local one was 6 kilo's with a mean hill towards the end. Average time on this for the better riders was round 9m to 9m 30s. I went on to set the record on this with an 8m 52s. It was since broken with an 8m 30s. It is a tough course cause the climb is about 1 kilo long but steep. It saps your energy right out of you. We named it heartbreakers hill cause you can reach it in under 7 minutes on a good ride but end up going over it with 10 minutes on the top. Then there was another half kilo of slight downhill left but by then you are so finished it feels like an uphill too.

I stayed out of town so if I went in I would TT it in too. Also about 5 or 6 kilos of fast roads. This I would try for under 7 minutes. It was basically my sprint training. Ideal for them last few kilo's in a race if you want to go with a flyer. I put this to good use overseas when I got dropped by the bunch in the last 20 kilo's. The team cars were already passing me when I thought to hell with this and I just let rip with a 20 kilo TT I caught the bunch on the line. Problem was in the last 3 kilo's they were only about 50 meters in front and I just hung out there trying to catch them. They were already attacking at the front and the pace was very high. I had to sprint like I was going for the line just to get them. At the line I just flew alongside the bunch and if it had been about 100 meter further I may have passed them I was going so fast. ;D

Anyway, I had no real training program as such. It was more of just getting on the bike at lunch time. Ride 100 kilo's. Eat supper and ride the 10 kilo's to work. That was during my night shift. During dayshift I would just ride to work and then after work try and put in a 40 kilo ride. Depended on the weather too. Straight home if it was raining after work.

Weekends I went out with the club and would do between 80 and 120 kilos. My base was a lot of distance. Lots of short TT's and work on short sprints. Lot's of climbing. I am lucky ??? that I have 4 roads out of town and they all have killer climbs on them. I used to train with a HRM but it was one of the earlier ones that didn't do much so I stopped riding with it. My body told me what I could do. Another thing I learend is to do some LSD too. No not the drugs  ;D Long Slow Distance. May vary for some but just get a group of riders and go for a social ride. Say 100 kilo's in about 5 or 6 hours on flat roads. You won't believe how much it helps. But believe me that long in the saddle and you will notice it.

Rest is important too. I used to take a day off now and then where possible. It was active rest with maybe a 20 kilo ride for the day. Now and then I left the bike for a day or so but I just couldn't do it after a while. I became so used to been on it. Sometimes during nightshift I would get bored and hold my own kermesse in our computer room. Riding laps round the servers  ;D. Ah those were the days...... My advice is ride, ride, ride and then ride some more. Do some races. Win a few to build the admiration of the younger crowd and the babes. And practice your signature as sometimes they ask for it on the team pics at the races.... ;D.

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Wazat, sounds like you trained as much as a pro cyclist does. May I ask what type of work you did back then? Right now, most people my age are busy spending their evenings and weekends in the office. I am one of the lucky few who still have to strength/time to workout after work.

Guest

Altwegg - I work as Tech support in a computer company doing 12 hour shifts. My work schedule is as follows.

Week 1

Mon - Day
Tues - Day
Wed - Off
Thur - Off
Fri - Sun - Night

Week 2

Mon - Off
Tue - Off
Wed - Day
Thur - Day
Fri - Sun - Off

Week 3 - Same as week 1, just swap the day and night shifts round
Week 4 - Same as week 2, just swap the day and night shifts round

My shifts are from 6am to 6pm for dayshift and 6pm to 6am for nightshift. This gives me a lot of time off during the day to ride unless I work dayshift of course. I can get maybe 3 to 6 hours of riding in on my off days and around 2 to 3 hours when I work nightshift. My dayshifts are a broblem as it is usually dark during my available time. Plus I got the family waiting at home for me.

Wish I could have a Pro's training time though. The shiftwork makes training just that bit harder to do. Unfortunately my race experience in that time was very limited as I was on a bit of a tight budget saving money up for my trip overseas. I would have liked to see my progress against some of our top riders. It was interesting to test my abilities against some of the top amateurs in Europe. And although I was way down in rankings on my second tour I only lost about 7 minutes on the winner after 360km. I was very happy with that. Problem was I got into a holiday mood after the tours.....  ;D So my training went for a ball of shite.... :

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Update on my stats.

Resting Hr. As low as 50 but avg 52
Max Hr : measured during the Argus 192

Avg Hr during the Argus was 175.