When they published the schedule for this year’s USA Cycling Masters Nationals, I felt the heads of hundreds of masters racers shake in unison. Why would anyone schedule the road race (for the biggest fields) the day before the time trial? The answer that came back was: we’re trying to minimize people’s travel expenses.
Guys [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘time trials’
July 2, 2009
Baskets of regret
June 20, 2009
More Mind Games
Someone recently told me that riding a time trial is like riding a knife’s edge. Just a little too much in either direction and you fall off.
This is one of the aspects that attracts me. The time trial is known as the ‘race of truth’: there is no drafting, no wheels to follow, nobody to [...]
June 13, 2009
TT Training Tricks
Yogi Berra said, “90% of baseball is mental; the other half is physical”. Like many other “Yogiisms”, though logically incorrect, this one has an odd, zen-like quality.
He could easily be talking about riding time trials. You might have a good engine but if you don’t master the mental aspect, then it’s just … suffering. Actually [...]
September 9, 2008
We pay money to do this
Saturday night, stay home instead of going out. Pass on drinking that glass of wine. Go to bed at 10, anticipating the shock of the 5:30 AM alarm. Wake up bleary-eyed, down half a pot of coffee. Force yourself to eat though your stomach is saying, “not this early”. Head out [...]
