Originally Posted by Smoothie104
We've got a couple of guys down here who are ex body builder types, one guy we call the incredible hulk. He's not much of a threat in a road race, but when he comes out of that last corner in a crit, he can sprint like a demon. Maybe weight training doesn't help for efforts more than 90 seconds, but many a race is won and lost in the last 90 seconds.
Sprints, acclerations out of corners, small hills on a circuit race, are all efforts less than 90 seconds, but all make a difference in the outcome of a race.
although these may all be less than 90-secs, recovery from any of them is entirely and totally dependent on aerobic metabolism. in other words, all you have to do is go hard enough during these efforts, and then instead of easing up you continue to make it slightly longer effort, or another hill or corner or whatever comes up and someone who doesn't have an equal or better aerobic system will get shelled
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