It doesn´t matter. However, knowing the weight you go best at is useful. When riders rode both classics and tours they were often three or four kilos heavier to win the cold, wet classics than the hot summer tours with longer climbs.

If I try to maintain my Summer weight in Winter I´m soon ill.

^^^ same with me. I don’t mind a few kg over in winter.

I just do loads of sprints, one or two long runs, I’m always hungry, and I just ignore it.

160cm 42kg. No idea what my body fat is, but it’s low enough to stop periods occassionally, and I’ve a six pack ish

wimps 😆

I weigh twice as much as emsz!!! I need to loose 0.1emszs and work on my gunz *pew pew*

Not all sports reward silly low weight.

That said I used to row with some of the GB lightweights who for a while held an outright world record. One of the guys was 6’3″ and 11 stone. He looked like something out of Belsen …

Stop periods occasionally? Pfffft… my weight is low enough to stop them permanently.

Didn’t mean to be too harsh with the tough love Molly, just reckon that iDiet plus slight calorie deficit equals win win.

Oh. and even heavy rowers have an athletic level of bodyfat %

indeed but athletic, not unhealthy…

I can get 32″ waist trousers off without unfastening them 🙂

I walked to work yesterday and today instead of riding. After a veg/salad/fruit-heavy couple of days, no chocolate and just one beer last night, I reckon I’ll be 70kg tomorrow.

I used to work with a guy who alternated between running and triathlons, depending on season (I think that was the combination. He ate like anything for the tris and lost all the weigth gain for the running. He was a bit lost in the head though, only ate bread and cheese.
I can highly recommend the “I’m Dave” diet, I’ve cut down from two Big Mac meals to just the one and the weigth is falling off, its great.

6’5″ and when I got down to 13.5 stone (worth maybe noting that that included a lot of muscle) I was noticeably less healthy. 14 stone was a much better weight and actually more productive because I was ill less so could train more. That’s on top of being someone who rarely gets ill…

Low weight (or even low body fat) as a goal in itself is stupid.

I’m still not getting ill. Weight loss isn’t a massive goal on it’s own… infact I’m eating loads of crap to sustain my weight at the minute.

Main thing I’ve done is stop drinking beer and cider.

At the minute I’m getting leaner but no lighter… got to be happy with that really.

Yeah, I get that with my Levi 501s

Lol.. you are indeed skinnier than me then. 501s don’t even remotely fit over my thighs and bum, I can hardly get them up – even when the waist is ample.

Emsz – if I ignore the hunger I can’t exercise fast or hard – can’t do it at all. And to show what I mean, see my running thread that I just started 🙂 my new moderate fast carbs diet has yielded dramatic results in only a few days! But not in weight terms.

tsy sounds like a sensible change then. just beware the temptation to take it too far…

In other news it looks like I am doing (subject to entry being available) the Blenhim Tri as a team – on the bike leg 🙂

In other news it looks like I am doing (subject to entry being available) the Blenhim Tri as a team – on the bike leg

I did the blenheim tri last year, not in a team though, it is a great event. The bike leg is quite up and down. You can overtake a lot of people on one of the downhills if you don’t mind a bit of ballsy descending. The ups is obviously fitness dependent.

I don’t have a TT bike – I discussed borrowing the swimmer’s one but then we thought it might be a little hairy with traffic and speed so I might be better off with my own road bike!

blenheim tri

Isn’t that the one that the beautiful people do….

Molly you wimp. I’m doing the whole thing. I am one of the beautiful people, see.

TT bike is pointless, too up and down, you could use one if you already have one and you will see people with them, but I wouldn’t get one specially. Use your own road bike, maybe get some tribars on it, but not unless you practice with them first.

I have some clip-ons but they aren’t really any good – too high, and I get a pretty decent tuck on the drops anyway.

What pace are you hoping to do the ride in Mol?

Can’t you practise on the TT bike first to get used to it? Was reading an interesting article about training for TTs – basically pick a hr you think you can sustain for 10miles. Warm up, get on a turbo and get up to this hr, note your speed at this hr and keep it at that for 10miles. Do this a max of once a week.

In other news i think i may have my second cold of the winter, having not had a cold for 2-3+ years. I wonder if being lighter is to blame…

I blame not eating meat 😉

Theres not really any point in the TT bike if theres plenty of hills involved, I doubt you’d be going fast enough to feel the benefit. I think the best thing you could do is lay off the carbs and drop a bit of weight to make you quicker up the hills.

It’s not mega hilly, but undulating enough that you won’t really be hunkered down in TT position for long stretches.

DG – so practice time trials then? 🙂 I use open flat(ish) fast roads for that.

Yeti – I’ve got no idea what my pace would be, but I reckon I’d be best off just attacking it like an MTB race. So 20km should in theory come up fairly quickly.

i can train you molly, all i need is your credit card details and soon you’ll be at TSY levels of awesomeness….

he doesnt like to admit it but i’ve been training him for a while now

cyclists only look particularly weird

no, for misproportioned you want to find pictures of Zac Efron.

Yup i reckon so Mol. I’ve entered a mountain TT (25miles) GULP. The article also went on to say how intervals should be done on both flat and hills, not just hills as you can cheat using hills. Intervals on the flat are good for TT’ing, sprints and solo break aways.

I’m currently using sufferfest and the turbo for intervals due to the dark/ice, so its around 4mins of TT effort and 3 mins of climbing effort and then 3 min rest for an hour. Its nasty! I nearly puked at the end of the first one!

I have 4 races in March then i’m racing twice a week for about 8 weeks before settling back into once a week…training will no longer be required from the end of March! 🙂

sufferfest and a cold…thats not a winning combo

I didn’t say i did sufferfest when i had a cold

How do you cheat using hills in training?

I have a power meter, so I pick my power and stick to it regardless of hill or flat. The only thing that changes is stuff like cadence and pedaling style.

i think i may have my second cold of the winter

I’m currently using sufferfest and the turbo for intervals due to the dark/ice

…sorry if I misunderstood

How do you cheat using hills in training?

Go to Lincolnshire?

How do you cheat using hills in training?

Turnaround?

I have a power meter, so I pick my power and stick to it regardless of hill or flat

so do you go fast uphill and slow on the flat or vice versa…. :-)….oops I’ve just re-read that and it makes no sense….should have read slow uphill and faster on the flats…no, still nonsense, everyone goes faster on the flat than uphill…… 😳

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In other news i think i may have my second cold of the winter, having not had a cold for 2-3+ years. I wonder if being lighter my diet is to blame…
FTFY

DirtyG – do you want me to do you a diet plan?

so do you go fast uphill and slow on the flat or vice versa

Riding at constant power involves going surprisingly slowly up hills and having to hammer down them like an idiot. If it’s steep then to keep constant power you need to apply the brakes, although this is a training technique not a racing one! However I have been advised that constant power is the best policy for time trials.

Say your threshold power is 330W, going up to 450W on the climbs would save a bit of time on them but the extra fatigue generated could cause you to be limping home at 270W or so by the end which in theory would be more detrimental to your time.

Depends on the hills though – I still think if they are short enough hammering up them is best. But I am not a TT specialist 🙂