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Date: 05 Apr 2007 06:09:29
From: Bob
Subject: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does it
mean? Can I start now on a local race?
I have 52 kg. I think that I have advantage uphill. What can I do with TT,
because the havier guys have easier? How can I improve TT? Is it a big
diffrence in cycling on a special TT cycle? Help me.
Bob
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Date: 06 Apr 2007 10:48:38
From: Simon Brooke
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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in message <ev1t4g$cr2$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl >, Bob ('Bo999@interia.pl')
wrote:
> I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does
> it mean? Can I start now on a local race?
> I have 52 kg. I think that I have advantage uphill. What can I do with
> TT, because the havier guys have easier? How can I improve TT? Is it a
> big diffrence in cycling on a special TT cycle? Help me.
Cycling is largely about aerodynamics; the diamond-frame bike with a person
on it is not a very aerodynamic shape and everything you can do to improve
it helps. So, yes, a TT bike, with good aerobars properly set up for you
and a good pair of wheels - disk rear and minimally spoked front - is
going to help a lot. As to whether you can enter races, of course you can.
In TT, as I said, aerodynamics counts for a lot. In road racing, tactics
(and alliances) count for a lot. Being strong helps but you don't have to
be the strongest to win. Cunning and diplomacy also figure.
--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
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Date: 05 Apr 2007 22:00:17
From: bjw@mambo.ucolick.org
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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On Apr 4, 9:09 pm, "Bob" <B...@interia.pl > wrote:
> I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does it
> mean? Can I start now on a local race?
> I have 52 kg. I think that I have advantage uphill. What can I do with TT,
> because the havier guys have easier? How can I improve TT? Is it a big
> diffrence in cycling on a special TT cycle? Help me.
>
> Bob
You can always start a local race. The question is
whether or not you can finish it.
If you haven't done any races, worrying about climbing
or TT, let alone TT bikes, is beside the point. You
need to learn to race first. In the US, I would say
go start a race, but more importantly find some local
informal training ride and ride on it and learn some
riding skills. I don't know about the formalities of
racing in Poland, but assume there are similar
informal rides.
Ben
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Date: 05 Apr 2007 20:00:58
From:
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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On Apr 5, 1:22 am, "Kurgan Gringioni" <kgringi...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> On Apr 4, 9:09 pm, "Bob" <B...@interia.pl> wrote:
>
> > I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does it
> > mean? Can I start now on a local race?
> > I have 52 kg. I think that I have advantage uphill. What can I do with TT,
> > because the havier guys have easier? How can I improve TT? Is it a big
> > diffrence in cycling on a special TT cycle? Help me.
>
> > Bob
>
> Troll -
>
> Nice try.
Dumbass,
Bob's accent is Polish, not Trollish...
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Date: 06 Apr 2007 06:03:28
From: Bob
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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> Dumbass,
>
> Bob's accent is Polish, not Trollish...
>
Thanks,
Bob
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Date: 05 Apr 2007 13:42:15
From: joseph.santaniello@gmail.com
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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On Apr 5, 4:16 pm, Curtis L. Russell <cur...@md-bicycling.org > wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 06:09:29 +0200, "Bob" <B...@interia.pl> wrote:
> >I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does it
> >mean? Can I start now on a local race?
>
> Generally starting a race is the easy part, except for the two guys in
> every cat V race that can't find their clips. You know who they are -
> they're the ones that pushed as far to the front as they could get
> away with before screwing up. Why piss off four or five people, when
> you can piss off 50?
At some ski races, there is a bit of a similar, yet completely
different phenomenon. It is customary to lay ones skis in the tracks
near the start berfore the race starts to reserve a good starting
place. Obvioulsy the fast guys try to get spots near the front. But
there is a whole group of us that try to get spaces near the back so
we don't get in anyone's way and make fools of ourselves. It is
actually comical to see us casting surreptitious glances at each other
trying to size up just how bad each other are. I know we all are
thinking. "Geeze. Am I really worse than that guy?"
Joseph
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Date: 05 Apr 2007 09:16:52
From: Curtis L. Russell
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 06:09:29 +0200, "Bob" <Bo999@interia.pl > wrote:
>I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does it
>mean? Can I start now on a local race?
Generally starting a race is the easy part, except for the two guys in
every cat V race that can't find their clips. You know who they are -
they're the ones that pushed as far to the front as they could get
away with before screwing up. Why piss off four or five people, when
you can piss off 50?
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
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Date: 05 Apr 2007 01:22:33
From: Kurgan Gringioni
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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On Apr 4, 9:09 pm, "Bob" <B...@interia.pl > wrote:
> I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does it
> mean? Can I start now on a local race?
> I have 52 kg. I think that I have advantage uphill. What can I do with TT,
> because the havier guys have easier? How can I improve TT? Is it a big
> diffrence in cycling on a special TT cycle? Help me.
>
> Bob
Troll -
Nice try.
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Date: 05 Apr 2007 11:00:59
From: Donald Munro
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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Bob wrote:
>> I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does it
>> mean? Can I start now on a local race?
>> I have 52 kg. I think that I have advantage uphill. What can I do with TT,
>> because the havier guys have easier? How can I improve TT? Is it a big
>> diffrence in cycling on a special TT cycle? Help me.
Kurgan Gringioni wrote:
> Troll -
> Nice try.
Dumbass,
That's a poor troll on rbr. Any rbr troller worth his orange juice and
panache knows a successful rbr troll never has anything to do with bike
racing. Try helmets, guns or global warming next time (and cross-post to
rbt to pick up a few more wingnuts).
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Date: 04 Apr 2007 21:38:41
From: bdbafh
Subject: Re: 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes
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On Apr 5, 12:09 am, "Bob" <B...@interia.pl > wrote:
> I can generate 5,6 W/kg for 35 minutes after 1 year of cycling. What does it
> mean? Can I start now on a local race?
> I have 52 kg. I think that I have advantage uphill. What can I do with TT,
> because the havier guys have easier? How can I improve TT? Is it a big
> diffrence in cycling on a special TT cycle? Help me.
>
> Bob
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enjoy.
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