Originally Posted by ultraman6970

Looks like bruno thinks that going to the gym will help him, the issue with track is that if you dont have the power you are dead in a race and if you arent fast (fast cadence) you are even more dead. No matter how much gym you do if the legs are slow then the guys are going to smoke you.

See you very surprised of the wattage the guys are putting but it makes sense, you have no gears, the track sure is not light because track arent built with the lightest non friction material around (cement) either , so if you have not go to a track yet dont get scared if your legs hurt after 15 minutes or because you try to go fast and darn wind everywhere

If you have access to a 100 meters sprinter pre season training program do that, why... that will get your legs moving fast and you will built enough to have your legs to perform w/o oxygen, thats why all the trackers around have massive legs. You are all the time in lack of oxygen since the 1st km, so the body has to built around that... no oxygen, then you have to go anaerobic then (muscle).

No idea how fast you are but IMO and talking like an old man that I'm, you are taking this way to scientifically because if at the end of all the training you want to do your legs arent fast then the power you get is useless (carleton mentioned this). The main problem road racers find going to the track is that they dont have the cadence neither the power they thought they had. Not the same going 53x14 in a flat at 80 rpm than going 50x15 at 100+ just in the bunch in the track.

Good luck