tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post5537422409371456478..comments2024-02-14T17:11:22.168-08:00Comments on On Bicycles, and.... what else is there?: Old La Honda: chasing Chrisdjconnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01484858820878605035noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-31330390477209324262013-06-30T14:28:58.328-07:002013-06-30T14:28:58.328-07:00It's probably impure but I go hard to take adv...It's probably impure but I go hard to take advantage of whatever pace I can take from Portola. Get up to speed and carry speed through the flatter first 1/2mi, conserving momentum. <br /><br />The hard opening jump also opens up my legs and lungs and I feel better at threshold after doing a minute or 3 above.<br /><br />And then there's the feeling of being chased. It's good motivation.<br /><br />ymmv, but I've done the same at Diablo TT the last two years and won my heat each time, so it works for me.Ygdufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02312650079946018116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-9590094391906178102013-06-30T14:28:16.358-07:002013-06-30T14:28:16.358-07:00It's probably impure but I go hard to take adv...It's probably impure but I go hard to take advantage of whatever pace I can take from Portola. Get up to speed and carry speed through the flatter first 1/2mi, conserving momentum. <br /><br />The hard opening jump also opens up my legs and lungs and I feel better at threshold after doing a minute or 3 above.<br /><br />And then there's the feeling of being chased. It's good motivation.<br /><br />ymmv, but I've done the same at Diablo TT the last two years and won my heat each time, so it works for me. <br />Ygdufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02312650079946018116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-20063227687382150542013-06-22T16:09:46.525-07:002013-06-22T16:09:46.525-07:00It is interesting. But a lot of guys with excelle...It is interesting. But a lot of guys with excellent times ride this way: Ken Spencer and Greg Drake (who broke 14-minutes pre-Strava) come to mind. But Ryan Sherlock, who has the Strava KOM, is more a steady-power guy. I think the idea is to use up the available glycogen early, when feeling good, to make sure you get its benefit, then ride aerobically the rest of the way. Problem is if you've blown your glycogen you can't push your aerobic system as hard: they're interrelated. But this wouldn't work on a flat time trial because wind resistance means you get less out of more power than you lose out of less, while on a climb, time for a given average power is less sensitive to if the power was applied uniformly. djconnelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484858820878605035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564958057737541664.post-52899673241903846912013-06-22T14:22:30.767-07:002013-06-22T14:22:30.767-07:00Awesome job on the climb and your time! I know sev...Awesome job on the climb and your time! I know several people, including Chris Evans, who seem to like to start OLH way over threshold and then manage the power decay up the climb. I have never understood why this would be a good strategy. My understanding is that you get more time savings for increased wattage on steeper portions of the climb, so I have always followed an approach of trying to start OLH at a wattage approximately equal to what I expect to be able to average up the climb. I then try to increase wattage above threshold for portions where it pitches up, and then I often will purposefully ride below threshold on the flattish portions of OLH to recover/conserve for the steeper portions. Since OLH is not particularly steep at the beginning, I have never understood those who purposefully start at way above threshold. For me, it seems like a recipe for a more painful OLH, and potentially slower and lower powered than could otherwise be the case. Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901441198011856393noreply@blogger.com