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?
20-30mins easy spin with 6 x 12 second max efforts thrown in.
If you are racing against me I would suggest a three hour sub threshold ride with multiple hill reps......
If not, as above 😆
Lol!
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.
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...
I thought you were talking about something from a hip flask on the start line...
they testing?
I always use one of these:
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Takes your mind off the cramps
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.
Egg McMuffin and a double espresso on the drive over usually sufficed for me.
Recovery rides helped me a lot (psychologically at least) as did a similar ride the day before a race.
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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.
Couple of lines and a quick swig of absinthe..
How long is the race?
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...