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specialgueststarspecialgueststar Posts: 3,369
edited November 2014 in Pro race
Anyone got any training schedules for the 'off' season.

Quite interested if volume has changed from the old skool days of miles and miles. and miles and miles and miles.

I heard Olano used to do 5 hours on the road and then 2 1/2 hours on a turbo :shock:

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  • disgruntledgoatdisgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    Anyone got any training schedules for the 'off' season.

    Quite interested if volume has changed from the old skool days of miles and miles. and miles and miles and miles.

    I heard Olano used to do 5 hours on the road and then 2 1/2 hours on a turbo :shock:

    Simoni used to do nothing until January. Then 3 hour rides on the sunny side of the valley he lived in.
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • dish_dashdish_dash Posts: 5,254
    I've always loved the story of Juan Antonio Flecha training in the snow while his girlfriend skis.
    While most cyclists search for warmer climates to escape winter, Flecha spends weekends at his second home in Puigcerdà in the Pyrenees to sustain and improve his climbing. Unafraid of the cold and wet, he rides while his girlfriend skis, his tyres making tracks in the snow. Cars loaded with skiers pass cautiously. Despite the discomfort of frozen extremities and the risk of crashing, he finds peace and reason riding alone in the frozen environment.

    from Barry's piece in Rouleur http://rouleur.cc/journal/riders/flecha
  • mrushtonmrushton Posts: 5,182
    Zabel was known to do 1000s of km from January. Armstrong was famously 'training' on Christmas Day
    M.Rushton
  • specialgueststarspecialgueststar Posts: 3,369
    ha ha

    Rui Costa ‏@RuiCostaCyclist 11m11 minutes ago
    My training today:help my parents&grandparents plant onions. Better than doing gym. If anyone wanna come,pay nothing!

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  • The_BoyThe_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Ullrich used to do similar with pies, iirc.
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • specialgueststarspecialgueststar Posts: 3,369
    The_Boy wrote:
    Ullrich used to do similar with pies, iirc.

    stew drell!
  • disgruntledgoatdisgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    The_Boy wrote:
    Ullrich used to do similar with pies, iirc.

    Wait you can grow pies?!
    "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'"

    @gietvangent
  • danlikesbikesdanlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    disgruntledgoat wrote:

    Wait you can grow pies?!

    Up several sizes in team kit
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • The_BoyThe_Boy Posts: 3,099
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    The_Boy wrote:
    Ullrich used to do similar with pies, iirc.

    Wait you can grow pies?!

    In the right climate, yes.
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • shockedsoshockedshockedsoshocked Posts: 3,996
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:

    Wait you can grow pies?!

    Up several sizes in team kit

    Ah the glory days

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AohpWKc36dY
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • specialgueststarspecialgueststar Posts: 3,369
    Bouhanni fall at the Grenoble 3 day

    Now it’s going to be total rest. I’m not going to be able to do some gym work and boxing as I had planned but that’s no drama – it’s a superficial injury all the same,” he said. “I’ll stay at home and I’ll start training again on the road after the Dijon cyclo-cross [November 23], like I do every year.”
  • AnonymousAnonymous Posts: 79,678
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/video-r ... off-season
  • Le CommentateurLe Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    In the old days the pros didn't begin training until close to the season start or maybe even the first weeks of it. Greg Lemond was known for putting on weight in the off season.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • mm1mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Kelly commented on Lemond's "fat a*se" at the start of the season (but also admired Greg's courage as a racer in the classics). Back in the day Hoban would refer to UK based riders as world champion winter trainers.
  • ocdupalaisocdupalais Posts: 3,947
    mm1 wrote:
    Kelly commented on Lemond's "fat a*se" at the start of the season (but also admired Greg's courage as a racer in the classics). Back in the day Hoban would refer to UK based riders as world champion winter trainers.

    Much as I'm fond of the Irish man, perhaps non-Tour winning Kelly should check out how ripped Tour-winning Lemond was on the Champs Élysées in 1989.
  • ocdupalaisocdupalais Posts: 3,947
    For old time's sake
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  • josamejosame Posts: 1,057
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    mm1 wrote:
    Kelly commented on Lemond's "fat a*se" at the start of the season (but also admired Greg's courage as a racer in the classics). Back in the day Hoban would refer to UK based riders as world champion winter trainers.

    Much as I'm fond of the Irish man, perhaps non-Tour winning Kelly should check out how ripped Tour-winning Lemond was on the Champs Élysées in 1989.

    Note: 'start of the season' (not last day of a GT) but nice pic :wink:
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • cougiecougie Posts: 22,512
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    In the old days the pros didn't begin training until close to the season start or maybe even the first weeks of it. Greg Lemond was known for putting on weight in the off season.

    I thought Lemond did shedloads of cross country skiing through the winter - hence he bulked his upper body up ? Didnt he live somewhere snowy in the States ?
  • ProssPross Posts: 29,620
    Yep, I recall reading the same when I first got into cycling just after the '89 Tour. Cross country skiing together with the infamous hunting trips!
  • RichN95.RichN95. Posts: 25,497
    LeMond was a freestyle skier as a kid. He only took up cycling as off-season training. He grew up around ski resorts in the Sierra Nevada.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • fleshtuxedofleshtuxedo Posts: 1,839
    Pross wrote:
    Yep, I recall reading the same when I first got into cycling just after the '89 Tour. Cross country skiing together with the infamous hunting trips!

    Lemond took 40-odd pellets in the hunting accident. My mate once memorably asked a group at our club how his fellow hunters managed to shoot him that many times before realising he was not a turkey, failing to grasp it was a single shotgun blast. How we laughed. :lol:
  • specialgueststarspecialgueststar Posts: 3,369
    http://www.tinkoffsaxo.com/media/photo-gallery-greetings-tinkoff-saxo-kilimanjaro/
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    Kiriyenka was going up Teide yesterday.
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  • pinnopinno Posts: 42,767
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
    http://www.tinkoffsaxo.com/media/photo-gallery-greetings-tinkoff-saxo-kilimanjaro/

    That's actually quite a sad picture. 'Killy's' white cap used to be visible from Nairobi. Used to see it regularly on the way to school on a clear day. Now there's hardly any snow left.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • ddraverddraver Posts: 23,212
    Global Warming i tells ya!

    If you follow Nikki and Laurens on strava you ll see they re putting in rides that take in most of the Netherlands at the moment...

    Closely followed by some fool commenting on how flat it is EVERY TIME!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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