Sun 22 Nov 2009
All About Competitive Cycling : Training for Road Races in Competitive Cycling
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Riding your bike on hills is an important way to build your endurance and train for road races. Learn how to train for competitive cycling road races in this free educational sports video on bicycling.Expert: Sal Collura Contact: www.velotv.net Bio: Sal Collura has been racing bikes at the elite level for 20 years. He placed 5th overall in the Criterium rankings for the State of Oregon in 2007, and 3rd overall in 2006. Filmmaker: Sal Collura
IMO hills is where you seperate the men and the weight weenies, no I mean boys, hehe.
But seriously, when it comes down to it, you have to go all out, or your just doing nothing, you think Lance justs takes it easy?? No he gives everything he has in every pedal stroke, in order to succeed in anything in life is through going through some pain, It wont hurt forever but you will gain experience from it. Plus its very mental.
ill send you some info
dont hit the hill as hard as you can you will blow out and suffer. the best thing to do is get spinning a low gear around 200 meters before the start and hold your cadence for as long as your can and try not to shift into a lower gear. get your pedaling in sync with breathing in out left right etc.
a track bike or a road bike?
you in missouri? i’d ride with you
specialized, giant, cannondale, orbea, look, felt….each of these has entry level bikes….from light weight aluminum to carbon fiber….pick you poison. I personally own a giant roadbike, and mountain bike…and also just picked up a full carbon mountain race bike….they all have their own special things these companies do to them, shoot me a message and i can help you from here if you need it
ill ride your ass too the ground.
Great ideas. Thanks.
Thank you very much. very good information. I’ll do what you said.
i really love cycling and im a little over weight and i really real,ly want to get into this at the moment i have a mountain bike but i need a race bike. pleae help me i do know know any good/bad manufacturers and im getting my bike for christmas. my money line is around £1200 max. and im 13 too im 5ft7 but the rate im growing il be about 5ft8/9 at chrsitmas . what do u recomend i do?
are you in baguio city po?
i got a orbea orca w/ campagnolo super record gruppo.. who wants to ride w/ me???
wanna ride w/ me??? im from the philippines
:O!!!!!!!!!! can i borrow it?
i have a top bike a trek madone 6.9 pro red 2009
but u can get a good bike to start for a good price
What kind of a bike is it? Im looking to get into road racing but need a racing bike! I only have a commuter bike
anybody out there livin in the philippines? particularly baguio city? i need sumone to ride with and who can push me past my limits…hills here are crazy (up to 30% grade)! but i love it!
im not ridin
im waiting for my new bike
maybe arriving friday
its killing me not riding all this time
I went 50 miles today in the mountains ( not hills ) for a time of 1 hour and 42 mins. This is right under 30 miles an hour. Anyone in the boone NC area let me know if you wanna make a team. I ride almost every single day
Come on down to Orange County in California and ride with Como Street. If you can make it here your doing it right.
Yesyerday I was out there in 107′ weather…
pasadena guy maybe we could go to the la marathon that be so cool
I just started too dude, I live in Los Angeles too. Let me know if your still looking for guys, I usually ride at Pasadena
i just started who want to make a team i live in los angeles….
i try to be good in runner and climber
most of time i just train hills
i train 1.30 /2.00 hours every day 
im 6 feet 3 and 168lbs who s a good weight between runner and climber