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Old January 21st 20, 09:10 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Tom Kunich[_2_]
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Default Training for Power

On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 4:23:54 PM UTC-8, Tom Kunich wrote:
As I probably misplaced in Andre's string, I have decided to train in the winter for power. I can't remember doing this before but I must have done so.

I had a couple of toutes that are between 20 and 30 miles and I do a fast first half. Stop for coffee and donut and then a fast return. 24 miles ends up being about 2 hours with the stop.

When I started a couple of weeks ago I was averaging between 11 and 11.5 mph. Yesterday I was a git sore from Tuesday so I tried to take it a little easier. Tuesday's average was 14 mph and Thursday's was 14,75. There are a couple of rises that I was slowing down on and I'm not slowing down nearly as much now.

So let's see how this winter progresses and then when the weather improves I'll do some endurance rides since early April is a century. Last August my younger brother dropped me like the layer of dust on his bike. But he ran out of steam 10 miles from the end. But that ain't the way he tells it.

So, lets see how it goes.


Yesterday I took another run. The lights were all against me and it was cold and the air was very dense. My average speed on the Basso was back down to 15.16 mph. That was a drop of 0.14 mph average since the last ride on the Basso. My top time was on the Lemond which is 4 cm smaller so that I am much flatter on the bike making it much more aero.
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