Comments on: Off season training tips http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286 Looking for a few more watts Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:33:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: stevef http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286&cpage=1#comment-1710 stevef Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:06:50 +0000 http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286#comment-1710 Great tips all around! i'm just finishing up three weeks off the bike, and I've never felt faster. If my endurance holds, I won't be back on until January, and even then just on hill repeats on the recumbant. Great tips all around!

i’m just finishing up three weeks off the bike, and I’ve never felt faster. If my endurance holds, I won’t be back on until January, and even then just on hill repeats on the recumbant.

]]> By: McCaffrey http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286&cpage=1#comment-1693 McCaffrey Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:14:56 +0000 http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286#comment-1693 Brooke, something you might want to add to your off-season schedule is knitting. Make yourself some taller socks. Most the fast guys wear tall socks. Warm achilles equals speed. Brooke, something you might want to add to your off-season schedule is knitting.
Make yourself some taller socks.
Most the fast guys wear tall socks.
Warm achilles equals speed.

]]> By: josh http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286&cpage=1#comment-1679 josh Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:25:29 +0000 http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286#comment-1679 brilliant. so this is your double extra top secret training. apparently I've got it all wrong. brilliant. so this is your double extra top secret training. apparently I’ve got it all wrong.

]]> By: erikv http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286&cpage=1#comment-1676 erikv Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:41:33 +0000 http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286#comment-1676 'At a boy, Brian! ‘At a boy, Brian!

]]> By: Brian Johnson http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286&cpage=1#comment-1674 Brian Johnson Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:58:45 +0000 http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286#comment-1674 What? Only for the 35+A's?? I moved from 35+C to 35+B at Rainier. How am I suppose to fight my way up to the A's without the free coaching and training plans? Especially when genetics aren't in my favor? Ha! Just giving you a hard time. Seriously though? Your post is just adding fuel to my fire. I was a mid-pack C+ racer. Now I'm somewhere in the bottom of the B+. But that's okay. I'm getting better-- slowly. Last year I slogged up steep run-ups like at Alpenrose. This year I didn't walk up a single run-up. Maybe jogged up a couple, but never gave up and walked. I was also able to give more-- many times I felt like puking at the end of the race whereas last year I still felt fresh crossing the finish line since I never really pushed myself. And next year I will absolutely have banished the "stutter step". Absolutely. Out! Out damned stutter step! See you '08 Cross Crusade! What? Only for the 35+A’s?? I moved from 35+C to 35+B at Rainier. How am I suppose to fight my way up to the A’s without the free coaching and training plans? Especially when genetics aren’t in my favor?

Ha! Just giving you a hard time.

Seriously though? Your post is just adding fuel to my fire. I was a mid-pack C+ racer. Now I’m somewhere in the bottom of the B+. But that’s okay. I’m getting better– slowly. Last year I slogged up steep run-ups like at Alpenrose. This year I didn’t walk up a single run-up. Maybe jogged up a couple, but never gave up and walked. I was also able to give more– many times I felt like puking at the end of the race whereas last year I still felt fresh crossing the finish line since I never really pushed myself.

And next year I will absolutely have banished the “stutter step”. Absolutely. Out! Out damned stutter step!

See you ’08 Cross Crusade!

]]> By: erikv http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286&cpage=1#comment-1671 erikv Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:06:49 +0000 http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286#comment-1671 I am going to get started on this right away! Of course, you forgot carbo loading, which doesn't work right unless you start doing it six months in advance to your 'A' race. I have a cake in the oven; I can hardly wait. I am going to get started on this right away! Of course, you forgot carbo loading, which doesn’t work right unless you start doing it six months in advance to your ‘A’ race. I have a cake in the oven; I can hardly wait.

]]> By: Dave http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286&cpage=1#comment-1668 Dave Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:24:22 +0000 http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286#comment-1668 You must really like your readers Brooke. Many racers would not give away their training secrets so easily! You must really like your readers Brooke. Many racers would not give away their training secrets so easily!

]]> By: Galen http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286&cpage=1#comment-1667 Galen Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:15:47 +0000 http://hoyerfamily.com/cyclocross/?p=286#comment-1667 'cross season isn't over. psycho cross in eugene! drive on down - sal and richard have put together a tough, fun course. ‘cross season isn’t over. psycho cross in eugene! drive on down – sal and richard have put together a tough, fun course.

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