I remember that one time Bert led the Saturday ride and wanted everyone to do specific workouts. If i remember correctly he wanted people to do break aways and have the group chase. With that in mind we dont necessarily need a subdivision to do this kind of stuff. We can just practice on the road. Organize more sprints, more attacks, etc. The only problem is that people ride with us to try and do "steady efforts." Even on Tuesday night we stay together until the last part of the ride. You might be able to integrate this into the Tuesday ride. I think that the points system Rick has in place could be used as a big motivator. Rick, you will have to include more sprint lines (other than first up Doc). Break-aways will have to be encouraged. Perhaps a neutral zone up to Patterson and then let all hell break loose. With enough participants you can have multiple attacks and breaks and chases. Obviously we would need more than 4 riders.
On Apr 15, 3:21 pm, <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > I really like that idea. There should be plenty of neighborhoods that could > accommodate this; I am sure that Tony would know of some. Sprint training > like this would raise every Gyro's conditioning and make each of us better > riders. This is an area that we really do not do very much of. We sprint for > a few county lines, but not many of us contest them, and some of us are never > sure when they are coming up! > > How long were the sprints, and how were they marked? Were the neighborhood > roads fairly wide? Was this done like a crit where they would finish a sprint > and then loop around for another one? Did they regroup after a sprint? Do you > need a few more questions? > > I am trying to picture how we could make this work for us. > > Any ideas, guys? > > > > ---- Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was in Naples last week and rode with a team called Naples Velo, an > > excellent and fast group of riders. One of the rides they did for > > race training was laps in a couple neighborhoods with designated > > sprint zones. In addition to being fantastic training that nearly > > caused my lungs and legs to burst, it was really fun. I think it > > could work here, but only in really low traffic or unfinished > > subdivisions where you didn't have to stop at stop signs, etc. > > Anybody know of anyplace like this in north Raleigh/Wake County? I > > suppose we could all do this on our own or even in small groups in a > > lot of neighborhoods, but this was a group of like 40 riders.- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you foolishly subscribed to the Gyro email group. To post useless drivel to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] We love reading 3000 line messages so please don't bother trimming your replies. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
