tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post1785925886999306459..comments2024-02-14T17:11:22.168-08:00Comments on On Bicycles, and.... what else is there?: Old La Honda, take 2djconnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484858820878605035noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-70250899890995255362014-06-15T08:22:14.111-07:002014-06-15T08:22:14.111-07:00If i remember correctly, greg drake posted one of ...If i remember correctly, greg drake posted one of the fastest times ever on olh. While he may be able to start olh in the big ring and do well, i assume most of the rest of us would not benefit from that strategy. It is my belief that both bradley and froome are dopers, so i wouldnt take their advice either. But i know people who have posted PRs on OLH with the evenly paced strategy and the blowing strategy. My PRs have all been using fairly even pacing. Since i try to avoid blowing, i generally dont have too much data to correlate blowing rides with OLH times. Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901441198011856393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-57495053467542948052014-06-13T16:31:24.451-07:002014-06-13T16:31:24.451-07:00Greg Drake told me to do a good OLH time, you need...Greg Drake told me to do a good OLH time, you need to start in the big ring. Curious reading Bradley Wiggins book immediately followed by Chris Froome. Bradley does a pursuit-like start to his time trials: sprint. Froome does the opposite: the first 10% at 90%. My best time up OLH was going out hard, my 2nd best time was going nice and steady. So I don't have an answer: it's hard to empty the tank on a climb that short if you try to pace it too evenly, but it's also easy to go out too hard and crack. I think the optimum is a slightly above-sustainable start then to settle in, ie a slight fade. But I really don't know.djconnelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484858820878605035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-87544869517466573352014-06-13T16:18:22.105-07:002014-06-13T16:18:22.105-07:00Do you think you climb faster by riding over your ...Do you think you climb faster by riding over your threshold at the start and then fading? I had my OLH PR last year on an A-ride. I was using a power meter on the ride, and I generally try to maintain pretty even power the entire way up. Shortly after the start, a group pf 10 riders blasted by me. I looked down at my power meter and saw that i was averaging around 370 watts (164 pound body weight at the time). I knew that 370 watts was slightly above what i could sustain for OLH and knew that teying to follow that group would put me way deeper in the red than i would want to go. The group of 10 quickly put a big gap into me. I set pretty conaiatent power out the entire way up the climb, and, one by one, i caught and dropped 9 of the 10 riders, and finished with my PR of 17'30". I know everyone is different, but i was wondering how you decided on a strategy pf riding over threshold at start, and then fading?Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901441198011856393noreply@blogger.com