British Cycling talent team identification session

[huw williams]

Be hellish good fun trying it though

[-Adam-]

[quote="Sylv"]Please to read that Pendleton would beat Adam in a sprint too

[Toks]

Wow that certainly inspirational reading Huw. The future looks bright if just a few talented girls are convinced to really take up cycling seriously. Is there a similar test to help recruit aerobic queens such as - Rowsell, Romereo and Cooke? I'm guessing it would be an aerobic power test of sorts. Best effort over 3-5 minute etc

[Sylv]

I'm just baiting you Adam ... you had to bite
You said over 1,000w but didn't say more - now you have

[Michelle]

Sylv said
[quote]Was re-looking at the FaCT results now that I'm a little more familiar with wattage figures and well impressed with yours - have you measured your 6-secs output? Bet it's not that far from the magical 800

[-Adam-]

[quote="Sylv"]I'm just baiting you Adam ... you had to bite
You said over 1,000w but didn't say more - now you have

[quote="Sylv"]I'm just baiting you Adam ... you had to bite
You said over 1,000w but didn't say more - now you have

[huw williams]

[quote="Toks"]Wow that certainly inspirational reading Huw. The future looks bright if just a few talented girls are convinced to really take up cycling seriously. Is there a similar test to help recruit aerobic queens such as - Rowsell, Romereo and Cooke? I'm guessing it would be an aerobic power test of sorts. Best effort over 3-5 minute etc

[quote="huw williams"][quote="Toks"]Wow that certainly inspirational reading Huw. The future looks bright if just a few talented girls are convinced to really take up cycling seriously. Is there a similar test to help recruit aerobic queens such as - Rowsell, Romereo and Cooke? I'm guessing it would be an aerobic power test of sorts. Best effort over 3-5 minute etc

[huw williams]

Yeah Emma has really low peak power but she has extremely good Power to weight particularly in the 90 minute to two hour range

It's a logistical thing i suppose - it's harder to test for aerobic potential when you only have a few minutes with the girls. Interestingly the road racers tend to get discovered after coming from other sports (Emma was a cross country runner and Sharon Laws was an adventure sport competitor) where they've already displayed good aerobic conditioning

[Michelle]

Adam didn't disagree with
[quote]I reckon 1450-1600 now

[Andrew G]

Adam is being modest , yes I did say that
[quote="Andrew G - Cycle Show 2008 post"]BC has some of those Wattbikes (they use them to test people for the academy set up with a 6 second kick to see what their initial umph is) where you can do a test run, quickest of the show wins a signed GB jersey. No warm up and straight in I did my 200m flat out sprint in 11.25 seconds with an average of just under 900 watts (whatever that means, it's less than my hoover I know that), the gear was a bit small but they said they keep it fairly low so everyone runs the same and it allows the under 16s to have a go too. Hoy puts out around 2,000 for the same thing but then his thighs are about the same size as my waist . If you're going have a go on it, you've got a target time to beat now . I had the quickest of the day at the time I did it, then again the show had only been open 1.5 hours at that stage .

[-Adam-]

[quote="Andrew G"]Do you remember what you did on your run Adam? Or is it a secret kept close to your chest .

[Andrew G]

[quote="-Adam-"]I seem to remember it being a good bit lower than what I have achieved on the road though.

[huw williams]

If everyone's interested I'm pretty sure I can borrow a couple for an evening at the club room?

I know the BC test protocol and can coach the proper technique - so you gotta ask yourselves - DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH