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  • Pre race sharpeners
  • Kryton57
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    Worth it? After a mammoth Thursday night ride my legs still feel a bit achy, but I’m racing tomorrow. In addition I’ve just thrown some new forks on my HT.

    So, would an hours gentle spin on the mtb, or a dedicated 45 min turbo sharpener help or hinder me for tomorrow?

    rollindoughnut
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    20-30mins easy spin with 6 x 12 second max efforts thrown in.

    paddyanddre1978
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    If you are racing against me I would suggest a three hour sub threshold ride with multiple hill reps……

    If not, as above 😆

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    Kryton57
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    Lol!

    mrblobby
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    As rollingdoughnut. Might do an hour of z2 with some quick sprints (all out 6 sec) and maybe a couple of longer 1 min hard efforts.

    Kryton57
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    Done.

    I used trainer road to get 30 minutes z2 indispersed with 4 x 30sec 500w sprints each followed by 1 min at 96% threshold and 4 mins z2.

    My legs feelz da awsumsz now, innit…

    AlasdairMc
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    I thought you were talking about something from a hip flask on the start line…

    mikewsmith
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    they testing?

    Northwind
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    I always use one of these:

    Takes your mind off the cramps

    LS
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    An hour largely at recovery watts but with 20′ high tempo in the middle (90% FTP) followed by 2-3 20″ max sprints.
    Doing nothing at all or only an easy spin the day before a race has never worked for me.

    Rorschach
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    Egg McMuffin and a double espresso on the drive over usually sufficed for me.

    cynic-al
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    Recovery rides helped me a lot (psychologically at least) as did a similar ride the day before a race.

    gofasterstripes
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    jonba
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    Vodka?

    It can help, short,easy with a couple of hard efforts normally for me.

    Doing a Crit tomorrow and didn’t want to waste the weekend resting for 1hours racing so did a 120km road ride into the hills, sure it’ll be fine – few gels on the line and away we go.

    cloudnine
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    Couple of lines and a quick swig of absinthe..
    How long is the race?

    daveh
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    I’ve just done an easy hour up the transpennine trail with 2.5 mins of effort up a hill in the middle. Looks as though I wasn’t far off with that plan. Oh, and I did lots of no handed riding, I think that will see me right tomorrow…

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