Snicklefritz

I have to laugh. Between you and pizzaman, you guys are kicking some serious @$$. You and DL (aka GWHBNAH) and Pizzaman racing against Larry Nolan in the Ronde circuit race.

simplyred

waterrockets 

Way to fight through that momentary lapse of legs there. Great report.

Yep

Cool. So Vino, your results are pretty terrific. I know the raw numbers on Dr J. and NomadVW better than I know my own, but you don't really advertise yours. I'm curious about your wattages because I'd love to know how much of a role your massive guts play in your success.

Vinokurtov

What numbers are you looking for? Happy to provide the stats, though they are mostly at altitude so they are probably 7-10% low.

As far as Glen's question posed in another thread about Copperopolis specific training, my coach has been setting things up since February, prior to that I did my own base and first build program around overall improvements, though it probably included a lot more climbing than most people have in their training. Part of that is just a by product of living where there's a lot of up and down and not a lot of flat.

And part of it was a result of the two camps I did, both of which had a lot of climbing (Death Valley and Solvang).

Pretty much your standard "useless" lower intensity, long (up to 6 hour) base rides, then moving into more intensity. For the TSS wonks the 4 week cycles started around a max week of 500, and peaked at 1500 right before race season started.

Reality is those big base rides laid the foundation for the longer Cat 1/2/3 races.

Most of my Copper-specific prep was equipment related, and a by product of weight management for the big bunch of early climbing races.

Greg180

Whoa...45+ masters...Whoa Thanks for proving there is life after 45.

Vinokurtov