Track Racing Overview

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Messenger Bags

First a little history:

The messenger bag as we know it today, however, originated in the 1950s or thereabouts, being produced as a bag for telephone linemen, by Globe Canvas/De Martini in New York. The linemen needed a bag they could easily access while climbing telephone poles, and this design worked perfectly. New York bicycle messenger companies picked them up sometime in the 1970s, and initially were purchased one color per company, as identifiers of a sort. For a long while, NYC was the bastion of the messenger bag - until things started to spread in the 1980s.

A list of bag manufacturers can be found here.

One Hard Day

TSS : 387 w
IF: .86

I'd say that was a good days work. 

Head Cold Hell

I have a cold for the first time in several years. At first I was worried I would not be able to train but then I found this:

Moderate exercise does not worsen a cold: "MUNCIE, Ind. - Common cold symptoms do not intensify or last longer when a person participates in light to moderate exercise, says a Ball State University study."

Looks like I can get on my bike afterall.

Ausie Cycling

From the Australian National Sprint Cycling Team Stenght Coach:

"Road is just for recovery, to keep them a little bit lean and to keep the sprinters out of the pub and out of trouble. "

That might annoy the physio's and guru's who make money out of Swiss balls and all that stuff, but I tried it for three years in 20 different sports and it didn't make any difference to performance or injury rates. They get really good at balancing on a ball, but there's no Olympic event for that. It doesn't transfer to the sport. Fix their technical problems in the actual technique (soapbox time is now over).

The one thing we do that most coaches can't cop is this. If you don't make the target times or loads on the first effort or set, you warm down and go home. You aren't fresh enough to train at a level that will make you improve. If you do a PB, you warm down and go home.

galerija.jurerobic.net :: RAAM 2004 :: RAAM2004_10593

galerija.jurerobic.net :: RAAM 2004 :: RAAM2004_10593

Forerunner 305

Forerunner 305: "The Forerunner 305"

Your Weight: Think About It

Stella makes some really good points about the nature of putting on weight.

Meme for the day: Sustained Evasion

Read more at www.theatlasphere.com/c...

Tandem cycling

Julia and I are considering doing a bicycle tour of Europe. We're looking into gettting a Tandem bike to help even out the differences in our fitness and cycling experience.

I found some interesting info pponline:

In conclusion, recreational cyclists, specifically the stoker, exhibited lower physiological stress when bicycling on a tandem compared to a single bicycle…In practical terms, when physiological stress was comparable between bicycles, cyclists were able to cycle from 4.8 to 8.0kph faster on a tandem than when they cycled individually on a single bicycle. Apparently, stokers can add to power output without adding a significant amount of wind resistance.

• Stokers demonstrated significantly lower physiological stress cycling on the tandem than on the single bike, with heart rates 16-22% lower and lactic acid levels 23-70% lower over the four velocities

• By contrast, no such differences were observed between trials for the captains

• When riding single bicycles, captains exhibited significantly lower HR, RPE and LA values than stokers

• Cyclists were able to ride from 4.8-8 kph faster on a tandem than a single bike at similar levels of physiological stress.