Someone check me into cycling rehab please

Bhima
Bhima Posts: 2,145
edited October 2009 in Training, fitness and health
Because i've just done the same hill 32 times in 2 hours. :roll: I have an addiction. Is there some kind of helpline I can call?

When I got home and told my neighbour, his reaction was like that moment in the Shining:

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I'm obsessed with muscular pain/fatigue. :shock: If I don't suffer on a ride, I'm not happy. It's getting serious. Please help me before it's too late. :(
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  • bobpzero
    bobpzero Posts: 1,431
    ride a bigger longer hill maybe about 10,000 times. anyways are there any super long flat roads nearby? try them aswell.
  • Edwin
    Edwin Posts: 785
    START RACING.

    You will soon go off it once you start getting your a*se kicked every sunday.
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    Spoke to some racers who say there's not any more races locally this year. I'll have to wait a few months until they start up again apparently.

    Been practicing sprints recently. :D Managed to hold a lead over an accelerating bus (in its own lane) for ~1200m before it went past at about 50mph. :roll: Believe me, I want to race! I actually think my sprinting/breaking away is getting good.
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    you've probably got a natural inclination towards opiate abuse. Don't worry i know plenty of people addicted to endorphins...

    Just steer clear of the vicodin.
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  • Edwin
    Edwin Posts: 785
    Racing season pretty much finishes in September, I realised that as soon as I'd written it.
    Look on BC website for the calendar: http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/si ... future.asp

    Although to be fair, forum members have been telling you to race for months, and if you'd actually looked into at all, even briefly, you would know the season finishes now.
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Bhima on 24/03/2009 wrote:
    I just want to race ASAP to see how I compare with others.
    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12614107
    Bhima wrote:
    Spoke to some racers who say there's not any more races locally this year. I'll have to wait a few months until they start up again apparently.

    Your definition of "ASAP" needs looking at. :lol:

    :idea: Could always try cyclo-cross :P
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  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    Edwin wrote:
    Although to be fair, forum members have been telling you to race for months, and if you'd actually looked into at all, even briefly, you would know the season finishes now.

    As soon as I realized they were all early in the mornings, I decided to not bother looking into more details as I used to work nights and knew it was not possible. Never used to have any competitive urge either (however, I did want to race to get a good measure of my fitness) but recently my urge for competition has been building up more and more, especially now that i've finally managed to get an awesome body position on the bike that i'm happy with (both insanely aero and aggressive yet comfy). I just want to see how far I can push it before my body gives in, as I was recalling earlier how the climb I did used to paralyze me after just one ascent yet I had to give up today because I was getting bored. :lol:
  • Edwin
    Edwin Posts: 785
    How unfortunate that you should suddenly get a competetive urge just when the season has finished!
    Here's a thought though, why don't you enter a hill climb TT? There's bound to be one in the evening, or if you can make it to Ironbridge, our club's event is at 11am this Saturday. You only need to ride up it once, so you won't get bored. It's a pig of a hill, but should take you less than four minutes if you're as good as you seem to reckon.
    I'll even buy you a pint if you place higher than me.
  • mrchrispy
    mrchrispy Posts: 310
    hill my arse....i bet it was the bridge over the tram line wasn't it :p
    come on, name the hill!!

    :?:
  • Murr X
    Murr X Posts: 258
    Bhima wrote:
    I'm obsessed with muscular pain/fatigue. :shock: If I don't suffer on a ride, I'm not happy. It's getting serious. Please help me before it's too late. :(
    If you are wanting to experience real suffering then try racing at a high level. You will not be happy though. :D
    Edwin wrote:
    START RACING.

    You will soon go off it once you start getting your a*se kicked every sunday.
    Indeed. Start racing with the lower cats and see how you get along, you may well find it satisfies your hunger for pain/fatigue.
    Bhima wrote:
    I just want to see how far I can push it before my body gives in, as I was recalling earlier how the climb I did used to paralyze me after just one ascent yet I had to give up today because I was getting bored. :lol:
    There is a very simple fix for that boredom and that is to go harder up the climb, its very important to understand that it will ONLY get easier as you're fitness improves if YOU let it get easier. Now go put some effort in! :twisted:
  • jonmack
    jonmack Posts: 522
    I still think you're full of shit.
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Do the hill 64 times.
  • popette
    popette Posts: 2,089
    Bhima, I saw you yesterday cycling up the hill out of Alderley Edge - is that the hill you did 32 times?
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    But Bhima, you said back in the summer that you'd done some road races... And does your "inasnely aero" position still involve a front disc and aero helmet?

    If you want some competition on climbs, come up to the lakes for a weekend, i'll put you up and we can go and do the Whitton route.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Bhima wrote:
    Spoke to some racers who say there's not any more races locally this year. I'll have to wait a few months until they start up again apparently.

    Been practicing sprints recently. :D Managed to hold a lead over an accelerating bus (in its own lane) for ~1200m before it went past at about 50mph. :roll: Believe me, I want to race! I actually think my sprinting/breaking away is getting good.

    Hold on lad... you held a speed that required a bus to get up to 50mph to pass you for over a kilometre? I suggest you ring British Cycling and htey'll put you in as many races as you want if that's really the case.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • jonmack
    jonmack Posts: 522
    Cav has nothing on Bhima, I thought that was common knowledge?

    Bhima, are you still eating 200 bananas a week?
  • Percy Vera
    Percy Vera Posts: 1,103
    Bhima you are the man!!!

    What other training do you do? I want to get up to your standard, if I can!
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    To make sense of what Bhima says you need to add on the Bhima Bullshit Factor. Unfortunately this is not a fixed value - it seems to vary between about 1.5 to >10. So when Bhima says the bus overtook him at 50mph, that could actually mean it was doing less than 5mph :wink:
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Bhima wrote:
    Spoke to some racers who say there's not any more races locally this year. I'll have to wait a few months until they start up again apparently.

    Been practicing sprints recently. :D Managed to hold a lead over an accelerating bus (in its own lane) for ~1200m before it went past at about 50mph. :roll: Believe me, I want to race! I actually think my sprinting/breaking away is getting good.

    Hold on lad... you held a speed that required a bus to get up to 50mph to pass you for over a kilometre? I suggest you ring British Cycling and htey'll put you in as many races as you want if that's really the case.

    He probs did it down the wizard climb in alderly.
  • Edwin
    Edwin Posts: 785
    Right.

    Remove the word 'cycling' from the title of this post and it might make a bit of sense.
  • Slow1972
    Slow1972 Posts: 362
    Bhima wrote:
    Spoke to some racers who say there's not any more races locally this year. I'll have to wait a few months until they start up again apparently.

    Been practicing sprints recently. :D Managed to hold a lead over an accelerating bus (in its own lane) for ~1200m before it went past at about 50mph. :roll: Believe me, I want to race! I actually think my sprinting/breaking away is getting good.

    Suggest you get yourself down to the velodrome for the track league over winter, with those speeds over that sort of distance you'll no doubt win every race you enter

    and as other posters have said, with the consummate ease with which you can ascend a climb and your overpowering desire to show us how good you are at racing its really surprising you havent bothered to enter any Hill climb TTs, there's been plenty around your neck of the woods

    then again maybe its because coming on here bullsh$$ing is a lot easier than actually laying down your 50 mph speed in a race.

    I see you've not still not named which hill you went up 32 times yet, come on, we're all waiting with baited breath to know.

    Please also tell us how long it was taking you to get up it, I'm sure you made some sort of note of that
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    He is pretty good at climbing, towards the end of the ride 2 weeks ago Bhima killed me on the climbs, I was dead after that and that night I drown my sorrows on 6cans of strongbow.
  • Edwin
    Edwin Posts: 785
    All the more reason to enter a proper hill climb TT then isn't it?

    Also, this doesn't mean much unless you're any good yourself :)
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    True, but I'm far from crap at climbing. I was faster than Bhima, and I've being cycling and improving, but he's clearly improved much faster than me.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Will is pretty good, he just doesn't train properly, if he did he's be faster than Bhima
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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    amaferanga wrote:
    To make sense of what Bhima says you need to add on the Bhima Bullshit Factor. Unfortunately this is not a fixed value - it seems to vary between about 1.5 to >10. So when Bhima says the bus overtook him at 50mph, that could actually mean it was doing less than 5mph :wink:
    You might be right, but even if not, as the bus was in a bus lane (as Bhima wrote), it wasn't going over 30 mph.
    Nor does Bhima mention the car he was slipstreaming.
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    I never said I sprinted to 50mph - that's just the speed the bus must have gone past at. It was more like 32mph (dual carriageway, so we were in seperate lanes). Bear in mind how slowly busses accelerate though. They're absolute tanks.
    popette wrote:
    Bhima, I saw you yesterday cycling up the hill out of Alderley Edge - is that the hill you did 32 times?

    Yep. Did it from the junction at the bottom to the false flat bit ~0.8 miles up.

    Slow1972 - I will be entering some Hill climb TTs. I only found out about them the other week!
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    come up to the lakes for a weekend, i'll put you up and we can go and do the Whitton route.

    Fantastic. I'll be in touch.
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    Murr X wrote:
    There is a very simple fix for that boredom and that is to go harder up the climb, its very important to understand that it will ONLY get easier as you're fitness improves if YOU let it get easier. Now go put some effort in! :twisted:

    The first hour was a nightmare, so the next 30 minutes was used as recovery, but still hard. The last half hour was slowly ramping up to stupid pain levels until I was sprinting on the drops virtually all the time, really emptying the tank. I was pretty mashed to be honest. Sill got bored though! I feel for those people who have turbo trainers... :shock:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Bhima did you get your 50kg of honey you were after ?

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