Track training thread - how was yours?
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby g-boaf » Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:32 am
I don't know if that's the way it is now. I haven't been back to see.
The accident mentioned above happened exactly as described - I saw the whole thing. One guy slipped down the banking and two others were the next people to come along and couldn't take evasive action.
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:21 pm
So I went into Caboolture to have some hurt at the Velodrome, seeing as it is only three weeks from my come back ride on the Track. (34yrs absence)
I did some work with Gerard O'Connell (54yr old) and a young bloke of 30yrs old. Well them being sprinters, they were always going make me look stoopid but my speed for two days a week of riding, I'm pretty happy with.
Now this Gerard O'Connell, only two weeks ago did, a 11.28sec flying 200mtr on Chandler Velodrome, not bad for a bloke in his mid 50s.
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:03 pm
Almost got the position right, by adding a 130mm stem and will now just need to push the seat back another 5mm.
It's good when you can train with an X World Champ.
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:07 pm
Can happily say that I've almost got my position right, so happy days ahead.
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby Derny Driver » Sun Jan 24, 2016 8:50 pm
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby foo on patrol » Sun Jan 24, 2016 8:56 pm
That would have been around 145rpm. But then again, he is a youngin.Derny Driver wrote:Been doing a lot of derny pacing in the lead up to state and national masters track titles. I won't need to buy my own coffee for a few months I reckon. Did 3 lots today including my new lady who wants to be a pursuiter and my brother. My brother (53) was hitting 61 kph on an 86 inch gear outdoor as he sprinted past the moto ...we did three 20 minute sessions averaging 48 kph each time.
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby Derny Driver » Fri Feb 05, 2016 6:46 pm
Beautiful pedaller. Probably the best masters endurance track rider in Australia I reckon.
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby mikesbytes » Fri Feb 05, 2016 9:00 pm
Have put together a team for the NSW Team Pursuit track champs that consists of half of the road TTT team I was in and half of the other TTT team (the 2 fastest DHBC masters teams by quite a way, not that we should be considered fast, perhaps not as slow as the others) we have two issues;
1. there is no time slot that all 4 of us can ride together in
2. one rider has never ridden on the track, though he is used to fixed due to owning a fixie (what real cyclist doesn't own a fixie?)
So the solution is get the newbie to the Tempe which is a 38deg concrete track, get him use to the banking and then send him to Dunc Grey to get use to 42deg banking. Now the problem is that 2 of us work in the evenings so we can't turn up to track training on Mon or Wed nights. However I can turn up on Wednesday at 8.15pm, so a plan was hatched;
1. the new rider (who's name remains a secret as he's a member of BNA) and the other available rider would turn up at 7.30 and the new rider would learn the banking under his guidance.
2. I turn up at 8.15 and go out on the track with him, teach him (at moderate speed) how to roll from the front to the bank using the banking to provide the energy to get back on (unlike road where you need to effectively ride back on)
Now everyone knows that 'plan' is a four letter word and indeed that was the case as I came down with mild food poisoning on Tuesday night, managed to survive my 5.40pm spin class using almost no load and my 7.30pm Pilates class (spent most of the time correcting technique ). Managed to get my 6am spin class and 9.30am Pilates class covered, slept into 10am, woke up and decided that I'll do my 5pm spin class and 6.45pm aqua class but not turn up to the velodrome afterwards. However as the day progressed the answer went from no to maybe and after my classes I said yes, drove past home and picked up my track bike + gear (which was already packed) and hit the track.
Arriving I find out that the newbie had spent a while before getting use to the banking but had mastered the art so it was time to hit step 2, I went out, got the newbie to learn swapping, so I showed him how to roll up the track and roll down, while the other team member stood there and gave him feedback every lap. Eventually he got it sorted, he did real good for a first time on the track.
So we decided to do a couple of practice starts, we tried a couple of things to familirise him with starting which didn't work (our fault, not his) but in the end we got it right, he slotted in behind me as we accelerated. His comment afterwards was how much easier that time was.
Should be noted that his gearing was really low, we will get a chance to address that at the next session as he now has the bits, he may find the new gearing an issue for starts, but the plan is to have him as 4th bike, so to give him 3 bike lengths grace at the start.
For me despite recovering from mild food poisoning, I did manage to get a couple of practice starts incorporating some the advise that Derny and others have given and and more importantly I was able to test out my busted ankle in a track start and have declared it OK for starts, I tried starting with both legs leading to see what would happen and have given it the seal of approval and that was with 50-14, I have ordered a 48 to lower the gearing as cadence is not an issue with me.
Oh and by this time it was 9.15pm. leave passes had expired (not mine) so didn't get a chance to put my TT handlebar assembly on and try that, which I have purchased an adjustable stem to replace the pista stem as even with the pista stem its too high.
So the plan going forward is;
1. train together on Saturday afternoon, which as been derailed due to not being able to secure a velodrome
2. newbie turn up to DGV on Monday night (by himself) and get use to wood)
3. train again Wednesday night. The 4th guy has proposed taking the night off work. I don't want him to loose income, will talk to him. While I think the riders in the team are quick enough to perhaps challenge for NSW bronze [they should ban ACT from NSW ] the reality is that would require a decent slab of training together and as we all work different hours there is too much cost to make it worth while going for the bronze.
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby foo on patrol » Fri Feb 05, 2016 9:26 pm
You really need to get all the team together and do some full length Pursuits and stop making excuses for why you can't get together, as that is the only way, that you will gel as a team!!!!
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby mikesbytes » Sat Feb 06, 2016 7:13 am
One guy is talking taking the day off work so we can train. Other option is to try to book the velodrome, which isn't so easy
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby Derny Driver » Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:21 am
yeah foo our TP use 98 or biggerfoo on patrol wrote:That's a low gear by todays standards Mike. I would have thought at least, a 96" for a Team Pursuit.
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Postby mikesbytes » Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:53 am
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby Derny Driver » Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:19 pm
You can get in there on Saturdays if you book.
Its an hour and a half drive up for us so we wont come up again until the champs, we will finalise our training at Unanderra velodrome.
Get your guys over there to practice!
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
Postby mikesbytes » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:54 pm
That's easier, I was thinking it might of been Bankstown council or Bankstown cycling clubDerny Driver wrote:Ring cnsw office at the velodrome mate.
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Re: Track training thread - how was yours?
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