Yesterday’s TNT was a test. #1 – The winds were of epic proportions. #2 it was my hope that teammates would be inspired by West’s story of his 16th double century ride like I was. West repeatedly mentioned the benefits of drafting off tandems and in doing so helped him save valuable energy. Last night I brought out my time trial bike so that I could be that tandem. I set a fast pace in hopes of riders taking pace off of my efforts. As I circled for 45 minutes I was shocked that riders did not snag my draft. Worse yet is that as I passed riders I saw way too many solo efforts. Sure, you can say that you wanted a hard workout and you got one if you went solo, but the point is that you are a team and you ought to look out for eachother. Encourage teammates to get on a wheel, rest up and/ or suck it up. We all know that there are races out there that are more difficult than some of our workouts. We workout this hard so that we can play in the races, not just hold on for dear life.
Normally we do a lot of sprints at TNT and that’s cool, but this is a race team and one of the biggest lessons that you can learn in racing is to grab the DRAFT!
Enough said about that. Let me know if you have any questions or comments or feedback.
one-lap efforts
Alex 2:20
Roy 2:12
West 2:03
Phill 1:58
Thomas 1:59
Mike 2:06
Oliver 1:54
Chris M 1:55
Chris G 1:57
John 2:00
Arthur 2:00
Ken 2:21
Eric 2:02
Overall – thanks for the efforts last night. Epic winds and lots of lessons learned! Larry
Alex_Cortez
Per my defense I didn’t have enough miles on my legs also I’m out shape and overweight but overall I’m satisfied with my performance,it never come trough my mind to stop for a rest since I want to come to competitive level fast enough what it discourage me (but not enough) as Larry say no one of the solo riders was able to catch (me or anyone else) and work as a team; many “team mates” pass me trough and no one give a word of encourage, it was looks like we where enemies on the same team and the only point was to crush you,that was one of my best encourage for trying to finish on my 1st TNT the best I can I hope to drop my overweight soon and enjoy the TNT’s .
larry_nolan
Thanks for coming out on Thursday Alex. This was the first time I;ve tried this format. Over the years it could be upsetting that I don’t have a set formula for workouts, but I’m hoping some appreciate the variety. I mention this because most workouts keep teammates together. I, too, was surprised at the scattered teammates all over the course, but the wind was BRUTAL, so who knows! Next week we’ll return to straight up sprints. But, as they say “be careful what you ask for” 😉 Larry