The Minute of Power

charliew87
charliew87 Posts: 371
edited March 2013 in Training, fitness and health
Got a thing at work coming up next week with the prize being a £2000 bike.

Basically they are bringing a WattBike in and whoever cycles the furthest in one minute wins the prize.

Any advice about gearing, warming up, standing/seated, training ideas would be tremendously handy.

Cheers
Canyon AL Ultimate 9.0

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  • Team4Luke
    Team4Luke Posts: 597
    it likely won't be a cyclist that wins it, me thinks.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Team4Luke wrote:
    it likely won't be a cyclist that wins it, me thinks.

    yeah, it will be a darts player.
  • ut_och_cykla
    ut_och_cykla Posts: 1,594
    warm up a bit - it'll be all anaerobic so just enough to avoid injury. Standing if you can maiantain a higfh cadence? TRaining before wont help - too short time!!
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    For 1min I'd stand up and sprint to get the power and speed up to begin with, then sit for a bit, maybe 20s, then stand up and sprint the last 20-30s. If you try to stand and sprint the whole 1min you'll almost certainly be dying by the end. It may only be a minute, but you can still go too hard at the start and balls it up. I'd have thought that If you can manage >700W for the minute then you'll probably have a chance.
    More problems but still living....
  • charliew87
    charliew87 Posts: 371
    Was having an experiment in the gym last night with a few different ways of doing it. Standing at the start to get going definitely seems to make sense, keeping as much power on whilst seated for 30 secs then standing at around 40 secs to start one final burst to the end.

    Could easily be a non-cyclist who prevails but should be fun.
    Canyon AL Ultimate 9.0
  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    I'd have thought a trackie would win it.

    Mind you what would I know. I did Rollapaluza last year and I was ashamed to be beaten by gym monkeys.....
    More problems but still living....
  • Team4Luke
    Team4Luke Posts: 597
    Imposter wrote:
    Team4Luke wrote:
    it likely won't be a cyclist that wins it, me thinks.

    yeah, it will be a darts player.


    there are plenty of freekishly strong legged people around
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Team4Luke wrote:
    Imposter wrote:
    Team4Luke wrote:
    it likely won't be a cyclist that wins it, me thinks.

    yeah, it will be a darts player.


    there are plenty of freekishly strong legged people around

    ok - a long-legged darts player then.
  • petemadoc
    petemadoc Posts: 2,331
    I'd like to hear how this goes. Good luck!

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