Training Games

Second session of Tucson training was 35 Miles up and down the Oceanside bike path. I rode with the extended B3/C team which is an amalgam of upper intermediate and advanced riders. Halfway through the session, we broke up into two groups and started into some training games. Tucson is a race and the important thing in a race is to be able to latch onto a group of riders and share the effort in a peloton. The method that usually happens is by you surging/sprinting trying to catch a pack of riders to hang on to. The problem is that if you go too hard, you are wasted by the time you get there so you have to gauge you effort. The pace line did a steady 18 MPH and then the lead rider drops back but instead of re-attaching at the end of the pace line, they drift back 25 yards or so and then try to catch up and latch on without braking or pooping out. When my time came, I sped up to 20 MPH and was able to catch the group very easilty without expending too much effort. Pretty interesting and useful exercise.

No extra mileage today, as I'm going to a wedding!