Club Run 21/11 - Who's Coming?

[Amy]

[quote="Keith"]Out doing my own long steady ride this morning, although I rode with the 18's for a while. Nice to say a brief hello to the Shadow, Adam & Dave.

Why not just go out with the 18's? Well in the brief time I rode with you, pace varied from the best part of 300W on the rise past Rusper golf club, to less than 100W two minutes further along the road. This'll be why you feel off the pace on the hills Amy.

[quote="Amy"][quote="Keith"]Out doing my own long steady ride this morning, although I rode with the 18's for a while. Nice to say a brief hello to the Shadow, Adam & Dave.

Why not just go out with the 18's? Well in the brief time I rode with you, pace varied from the best part of 300W on the rise past Rusper golf club, to less than 100W two minutes further along the road. This'll be why you feel off the pace on the hills Amy.

[Keith]

[quote="Amy"]Hey, I said hello! You complained that nobody else did!

[Andrew G]

[quote="Keith"]I have to admit I was surpised how many of the rest of the group rode as if nobody else existed.

[Amy]

[quote="Marek"]Its called training, do some and you'll go quicker. Also power to weight, so eat less and you'll go up the hills faster. Its pretty simple really. Those are the only free tips you'll get from me, if you want more I charge £30 for every 30 minute consultation.

[quote="Amy"][quote="Marek"]Its called training, do some and you'll go quicker. Also power to weight, so eat less and you'll go up the hills faster. Its pretty simple really. Those are the only free tips you'll get from me, if you want more I charge £30 for every 30 minute consultation.

[Amy]

Well, thank you, Marek

[quote="Keith"][quote="Amy"]Hey, I said hello! You complained that nobody else did!

[quote="Dombo"][quote="Keith"][quote="Amy"]Hey, I said hello! You complained that nobody else did!

[quote="Marek"][quote="Amy"][quote="Marek"]Its called training, do some and you'll go quicker. Also power to weight, so eat less and you'll go up the hills faster. Its pretty simple really. Those are the only free tips you'll get from me, if you want more I charge £30 for every 30 minute consultation.

[Antloony]

[quote="Dombo"]Well I think the girl done good. Riding in ever faster groups seems good training to me, and is what I do. But then what do I know? I also got to the 19s just doing the club run, and used it for a lot my etape and Dragon training. Surely a group above your normal one counts as training as you're riding outside your comfort zone? One week I'll join the training group for a laugh (everyone else's that is). Maybe I'll last until the first roundabout or set of lights on the A23.

[Grahame]

Marek, you've made two (potentially) fatal assumptions:

1- you assume everybody is obsessed with racing (or training).
2- (and most dangerous) you assume that everybody has the same level of talent as you. Amy has used the clubrun only to get to impressive levels of cycling performance before, and may well do so again. It may just be that she is more naturally talented than you .

I, on the other hand, would need to train seriously in order to lose the weight necessary for me to be a good climber.

If power to weight ratios were everything, how about losing some of that unnecessary height, lanky .

[Marek]

[quote="Grahame"]Marek, you've made two (potentially) fatal assumptions:

1- you assume everybody is obsessed with racing (or training).
2- (and most dangerous) you assume that everybody has the same level of talent as you. Amy has used the clubrun only to get to impressive levels of cycling performance before, and may well do so again. It may just be that she is more naturally talented than you .

I, on the other hand, would need to train seriously in order to lose the weight necessary for me to be a good climber.

If power to weight ratios were everything, how about losing some of that unnecessary height, lanky .

[Roy Green]

All these tips on improving your climbing, Amy, Don't worry, you'll never fall off the pace as quickly as me. But then, I have the excuse of playing the Old Card. And you're still young and beautiful.

[Dombo]

Climbing isn't everything....look at me on the flats