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Postby the crazyest vegan » Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:41 pm

did 84 miles today, i've never gone over 60! was awesome tho :D just after the 50 mile mark did some through-and-out practice with the people i was out with so we were bombing along at 25-30 mph on the flat, i've never been able to keep that speed up after such a distance before! i'm well pleased with myself, i should start a training log maybe, it's a sign of thing's to come i tell you ;)
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Postby JohnBarleycorn » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:07 pm

Excellent !

You're getting fit ! What are your plans for next year ?

Its called 'through and off' by the way ! :lol:
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Postby the crazyest vegan » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:16 pm

yes it is lol! forgive me im' a bit scatter brained at the moment :P
plan's are training week in spain for the 1st week of march
and i'm doing the springtime persuit on the 14th of feb in whimple if anyone else is????
and just road race's! and do all the local tt's on my road bike to build on speed and technique.
are you doing any road races jbc? i might come along to them and race with you!
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Postby JohnBarleycorn » Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:32 pm

Sounds pretty good !

Doubtful I will be doing any road races. I don't want to be getting my ass kicked by 60kg whippersnappers ! A nice brutal, windswept and flat road race in Belgium, in the mud and shit, with cobbles might be ok. But I am too big to be flying up the hills these days. 77kg is not good for going up hills at 28mph !

I am concentrating on time trials these days, and hopefully pursuit racing too. If I can find the time. Power and speed are my targets these days !
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Postby the crazyest vegan » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:23 pm

well you should do a few just for the training!
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Postby JohnBarleycorn » Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:05 pm

Its not really training ! I have ridden thousands of road races in my career. So I know what the benefits are...and what they aren't !

I'll give it a miss, I think !

I'll stick to my nasty, brutal training sessions.....less chance of someone falling off infront of me then !

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Postby fredrikw » Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:25 pm

thousands? if we pick a low 2000 it would take you 40 years of racing every weekend to accomplish this. have you been eating those drugs you're always joking about :lol:
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Postby the crazyest vegan » Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:09 am

haha lol damn right, their's no substitute for the real thing tho!
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Postby JohnBarleycorn » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:03 am

fredrikw wrote:thousands? if we pick a low 2000 it would take you 40 years of racing every weekend to accomplish this. have you been eating those drugs you're always joking about :lol:


Ha ha !

Ok.....maybe exaggerating ! It feels like thousands !

Maybe up to 1000 ? I rode a lot of stage races in France. Week long ones, mainly. So if we included each daily stage as a race, plus all the two day races, on a saturday and sunday, and the three day races too. Plus riding two every weekend in Britain, for more than ten years. I reckon it would be over a thousand.

And I am old, remember ! :lol:
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Postby fredrikw » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:53 am

he he, well you're the only one who knows exactly, "thousands" just sounded ridiculously large :)

but who knows, you might be 80 years old and really famous for all we know, mr anonymous ;)
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Postby JohnBarleycorn » Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:14 pm

Good point !

But if I told you about all my Tour wins, and my work with Dr. Ferrari, I'd have to kill you ! :lol:

And I do visit Madrid every five weeks.....home of the famous 'maternity' clinic, beloved by athletes and cyclists until the police closed it down. :cry:
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Postby Dave Noisy » Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:45 am

Nice ride the crazyest vegan!! Those breakthroughs are pretty swell. =)
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Postby helmut » Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:22 pm

that's so awesome!!!!!!! good work crazy!!! i can only dream of such speeds 8)
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Postby the crazyest vegan » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:42 am

it's not so much the speed, it's easy to get to 25-30 mpg, it's sustaining that speed.
a turbo sesh is on the card's for tmow tho :D
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Postby bob_summers » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:41 am

the crazyest vegan wrote:it's easy to get to 25-30 mpg


you were driving?!

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