Testing
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
The nine week base training has ended and it is time for testing once again. There seems to be some confusion surrounding the spin test - luckily, we have Dr. Bill Cragg to explain what we are suppose to do...
"Ok, I will try to explain this one for you all in the simplest of terms.
If you take the H.R. percentages divided by the RPMs you may extrapolate the Watts (power outage) on your bike. Increasing your cadence while maintainingyour resistance is challenging throughout long endurance training as it has adirect effect on your VO2, HR, and efficiency. In mathematical terms; if you take the coefficient of friction (Tommy...Kevin can help you with this by the way) and multiply it by sin (theta) over cos (beta) you will get the desired results. All of this is really irrelevant bull shit over the grand scheme of things because what he is telling you makes no more sense than trying to decifer what the hell I just wrote.
The bottom line....it doesn't matter what cadence, heart rate, Watts, or bike you ride. The bottom line is that two weeks prior to the race, John's HR is going to be so damn high he may be in need of Seiichi's services. This will render not only John "out of Wisconsin" but also Seiichi (as the good doctor will then be on call and John will be paging him every minute). One week prior to Wisconsin Strassner will have a massive Cardiac event. Tommy will geta call from Suzi asking what she and the kids should do about their house and whether or not she can roll the mortgage over into her "boyfriends" and move in with him. Tommy will be overworked with this that he too will miss the race. It goes without saying, John's large life insurance policy is pretty hefty. Suzi will be looking for some really nice new furniture and so Pep will get the call a few days prior to the race. He's done now too. Now, if I can only figure out a way in which you all suffer great deals of back pain I can stop my training now, get fat, go back to playing golf and not do the damn race either. Your math class is done. Maybe I should go teach Luc's class.
LOL Bill
"Ok, I will try to explain this one for you all in the simplest of terms.
If you take the H.R. percentages divided by the RPMs you may extrapolate the Watts (power outage) on your bike. Increasing your cadence while maintainingyour resistance is challenging throughout long endurance training as it has adirect effect on your VO2, HR, and efficiency. In mathematical terms; if you take the coefficient of friction (Tommy...Kevin can help you with this by the way) and multiply it by sin (theta) over cos (beta) you will get the desired results. All of this is really irrelevant bull shit over the grand scheme of things because what he is telling you makes no more sense than trying to decifer what the hell I just wrote.
The bottom line....it doesn't matter what cadence, heart rate, Watts, or bike you ride. The bottom line is that two weeks prior to the race, John's HR is going to be so damn high he may be in need of Seiichi's services. This will render not only John "out of Wisconsin" but also Seiichi (as the good doctor will then be on call and John will be paging him every minute). One week prior to Wisconsin Strassner will have a massive Cardiac event. Tommy will geta call from Suzi asking what she and the kids should do about their house and whether or not she can roll the mortgage over into her "boyfriends" and move in with him. Tommy will be overworked with this that he too will miss the race. It goes without saying, John's large life insurance policy is pretty hefty. Suzi will be looking for some really nice new furniture and so Pep will get the call a few days prior to the race. He's done now too. Now, if I can only figure out a way in which you all suffer great deals of back pain I can stop my training now, get fat, go back to playing golf and not do the damn race either. Your math class is done. Maybe I should go teach Luc's class.
LOL Bill
