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Skier Maier to lead out Tour de France
"Robert Chung" wrote in message
... Top poster "Aaron Daniel" wrote in message . com... I don't see that information being put forth. If you have information to counter what I've put forth please do. Not to put too fine a point on it, but since your understanding in this area is stretched thin how would you know? FWIW, contributors to this thread have included: 1) a widely-published PhD in exercise physiology who specializes in time trials, has studied elite cyclists and their performances, and is probably working on what will be *the* book on cycling power; 2) a guy who has held the US championship jersey in the pursuit (and not just once); and 3) a guy who's been in about 600 races. (There are others in this thread whose experiences are considerable -- it's just that I don't know their bona fides off the top of my head). If you think that good and accurate information hasn't been put forth in this thread, then I'd suggest you reconsider. If you look back about 7 years you will notice that I was a frequent poster to rec.bicycles.racing. While that does not make me an expert in the world of cycling my small background in cycling does allow me some insight into the sport. I have about 7 years of experience riding with more than a few Cat 3 and 2 racers as well as a few similarly qualified triathletes. I have also been a training partner to some as they have crossed over into the opposite discipline. During that time I sought information about what physiological results those guys were going through as the triathletes started doing interval training and road races and as the road racers started aerobic threshold training. What we found at that time was that maximum aerobic capacity does not equate to maximum lactate processing capability or ability to work in an anaerobic state for extended time periods. In our reading and our training we found that the triathletes were extremely capabale of maintaining an extremely high heart rate for an extremely long period of time (extremely high aerobic capacity). On the other hand they were unable to maintain a heart rate just a few beats higher for very long at all (not much anaerobic capacity). Further they required a relatively long period at a low heart rate before they could retrun to their maximum aerobic heart rate (not much ability to process lactate). On the other hand we found that the road racers were incredibly good at extended anaerobic stints (near maximum heart rate) and required little time slightly below their aerobic threshold heart rate to be able to do the same thing all over again. At the same time these road racers were not able to maintain the same steady state speed or heart rates as the triathletes. Through event specific training some of these athletes were able to transform their capabilities. Thus some triathletes were able to increase their ability to sprint, attack, accelerate out of corners, etc. When they trained to gain those abilities (with no mileage reduction) they lost some of their aerobic capacity as measured by the ability to maintain their former aerobic threshold heart rate for extended periods of time. At the same time the road racers who trained at a steady state (lactate threshold heart rate) lost their ability to easily reach a heart rate near their maximum and recover from those efforts. These athletes were also able to go back to training for their "original" sports and be able to regian the event specific capabilities they had trained themselves out of. When trained to a state characteristic of a road racer above we all referred to each other as "strong" because of our ability to sprint, attack, climb, etc and when cross-training in the gym we were able to move the most weight. When our training had us most mirroring the triathlete as depicted above we referred to ourselves as "aerobic monsters" since were able to do long steady stae workouts on the road and in the gym but maximal efforts were extremely short lived. Since some cyclists (like Miguel Indurain, Lance, Sean Kelly, Johan Museeuw, etc) were rather frequently referred to as "strong" in VeloNews, Winning, CycleSport, etc articles and by Phil Liggett I assumed you may have a point of reference there. Anyway, I am no research physiologist, the documentation I read on the topic was written to a layperson level and my experience with it was long ago. However, I do believe that the same training specificity remains today. As a matter of fact I believe I read an article within the past three years in which Chris Carmichael stated that Lance's VO2Max is reached in the off season and that it falls slightly as he peaks for the Tour. They do this on purpose to ensure that Lance has the anaerobic capacity to respond to attacks and accelerate out of corners during technical time trials. It is from the knowledge above that I drew my previous posts. Anyway, I apologize if I caused this thread to devolve into a "turf war" or a name calling session. It was not intended. Aar |
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