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Speeding Up
- Jun 22, 2008
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I woke up late yesterday morning after having spend the night before with an old friend drinking expensive red wine and smoking big cigars at his even bigger house in the plush suburbs of Tokyo. I will not bore you with further details.
But as a consequence I woke up late on Sunday and missed the guys of Positivo Espresso heading out for the weekend hill climb ride in direction Tomin no mori. With only little time left for riding I settled on a loop along the Tamagawa and I thought that instead of training my hill climbing stamina, I should test my sprint abilities.
I have attended some races this year and I also have been in finish sprints. Normally during the race sprints, one is drafted by the main field and then adds up to the speed by sprinting. I think I can do over 60 km/hr in these situations, but yesterday I tried to accelerate as fast as I could whicle being alone on the road, without any other riders or cars in front of me.
To my surprise I found out that although it's pretty easy to accelerate to about 40 km/hr, after that it is getting harder and it really takes time to add more speed. In the best case I reached 53 km/hr, but because it took such a long time to reach this speed, I couldn't add on further.
I wonder what your top sprinting speed is and if there are any ideas how to accelerate faster and maintain a higher speed.
But as a consequence I woke up late on Sunday and missed the guys of Positivo Espresso heading out for the weekend hill climb ride in direction Tomin no mori. With only little time left for riding I settled on a loop along the Tamagawa and I thought that instead of training my hill climbing stamina, I should test my sprint abilities.
I have attended some races this year and I also have been in finish sprints. Normally during the race sprints, one is drafted by the main field and then adds up to the speed by sprinting. I think I can do over 60 km/hr in these situations, but yesterday I tried to accelerate as fast as I could whicle being alone on the road, without any other riders or cars in front of me.
To my surprise I found out that although it's pretty easy to accelerate to about 40 km/hr, after that it is getting harder and it really takes time to add more speed. In the best case I reached 53 km/hr, but because it took such a long time to reach this speed, I couldn't add on further.
I wonder what your top sprinting speed is and if there are any ideas how to accelerate faster and maintain a higher speed.