Yep, and from here on in we're going to have to put up with McGuire's cronies dishing out our 'entertainment'

mmm maybe its time to upgrade my net connection so I can just watch cycling.tv

Yeah, I thought the channel 9 commentators were pretty terrible, and as for the closing ceremony, it was good to see some indie artists get a shot, but they lost me with the 20 minutes of John Farnham. Ungh.

Caught the 2nd half of the mens RR live. Atmosphere was great, heaps of people watching. Checked it out from a few different vantage points and then we finished up at the 500m sign for the last couple of laps.

Good effort by Matt Hayman - nice to see a domestique have a win.

A classic comment on the radio about the women's race. Commentator said that Olivia Gollan was "involved" an a crash earlier in the race that injured a kiwi rider..... I saw the footage and "caused" would have been better word.

And finally, after scoring a couple of freebie tix (Row B) to the women's hockey medal games I must say close up the girls are....mmm tidy!

+1

There's a reason that he doesn't get played on the radio anymore!

yeah, exactly! Typical commercial bollocks.
Do they all think we've forgotten Frontline?

mmm, yup, nice support to the ladies, well done Wil.

I taped the end of the RR, what little coverage they showed, they missed the few minutes before the crucial breakaway by Hayman and never went back to show what happened to the Sth African dude. Also, one commentator was crapping on about Hayman being more of a climber than the other 2 guys? What crack-filled planet did he come from?

Still, good to see we kicked butt anyway.

no worries, pyramids hurt a lot. You may want to start with 10 secs sprints sets until you can handle 30 secs, that's a long time at full effort. Go 10 secs on, 50 secs off for a while until you see how your recovery goes with each one. You should be resting the day before and after hard sprint workouts.

On longer sprint practice, you cant go full tilt the whole time, it's more like a short TT burst to get used to a longer effort at the end of a race. You should still have the legs to sprint the last 10 seconds on the minute so don't go too hard too early.

which thread, we need some Monday fun.....

Not sure what you are referring to here climbo, my "appreciation" of the hockey girls or my comment about the Liv Gollan crash....

Hopefully it's the fine hockey fillies

regarding the pyramid sprints, when im out doing base training, i dont know if its good practice or not, but to mix up the session a bit and to begin to train my legs up a bit for build periods, i will do 5 or so 10 second sprints in a session. stops the brain from going to mush and gives you osmthing to look forward to in the session methinks.

that coverage of the road race was pretty beer poor imho. channel nein strikes again! gave up trying to watch it and chose the v8 carnage fest on 10 instead.

anyone have a copy of the MTB that they want to put on the net for me.....

Ive got the kerin event.

Watchin v8s and uni work, ad break switch to see if RR was on, it was a good setup

I bought the $64 extra channels......showed the whole race live with commentary from Keeno and Anna Wilson.

Great day on the couch. Rupert Rheeder (RSA) had a massive off on Punt Rd, hit those big plastic barrier things as they tried to sweep through 4 abreast....ouch.

Awesome ride by David Kanjeh (?) from Kenya....wasn't shirking turns.

Was that on the turn back onto Alexander Ave (or whatever the road beside the Yarra is called) at the bottom of the Punt Rd hill? Not much room there at the speed they were coming down.

The crowd was loving that Kenyan dude - great effort by him. When he finished he got massive cheers, and he was the only rider who wasn't a medallist that was interviewed on course at the finish.

The theory goes that you shouldn't be doing that stuff during base training HDT. Smacks from teacher for you

However that sort of thing is used quite often by runners when they are doing any non-specific miles. It's called fartlek training, and is basically a mix of various intensities on a training run usually using visual triggers (eg. light poles) to signal the start of an effort and the distance. Sprint intervals, long intervals, kick drills, stride throughs, they do them all in one training session and it keeps things interesting. Cyclists can enjoy the benefits of fartlek training too, but specific (ie. targetted) training yields better results in the long run. Maybe on one ride per week.

https://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.ph...=1#post1701531

I used to like the 29er forum because it had all the signs of becoming the next Waco, but there' only so many times you can say something like "High handlebars definitely impact on your climbing ability", get ripped through for saying it, then 4 months later one of the "chosen" ones says "You know what, lower bars are pretty cool becuase they help you climb better" and then the minions all clap in unison.

And this doesn't happen once, but EVERY ****ING TIME I say anything over in that freakville. If I said "It's a nice day" Someone would go "What do you mean!?! "Nice"? What, are you having a go!?! It's snowing! It can't be nice, I'm cold! Are you having a go at black people, coz I'm black and we're not supposed to be used to the cold or something!?!?!"

I was going to build myself a 953 29er at one stage, but now I think I might shelf that idea just based on how insane 29er riders appear to be. It's like take average Seppo, rip out sarcasm and banter recepticles, replace with over-sensitivity and whinger components and *BAM!!!*....instant 29er fanatic!

"Where's the tower where's the gun....where's the tower, where's the gun...." - Bill Hicks

I got that theory from Carmichaels ultimate ride book - so its not my fault, honest Miss!

https://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0...002863,00.html

NZ cyclists to be disciplined
March 23, 2006

TWO New Zealand cyclists face disciplinary action after reports on Thursday that they tried to strip a fellow teammate and urinate on her in drunken celebrations in the Commonwealth Games village.

The cyclists were not named by the Herald Sun and New Zealand chef de mission Dave Currie refused to confirm the details, but he acknowledged "an incident" had taken place and the pair faced punishment.

"We are certainly in sport looking at some internal discipline around it," he was quoted as saying by the New Zealand Press Association.

"It certainly wasn't smart and the New Zealand team and the sport will be taking some disciplinary action around it."

When asked if the cyclists were drunk, he responded: "There was certainly some post-event revelry which wasn't smart."

But he said the cyclists had no intention of undressing the woman and urinating on her.

"There were some hi-jinks going on that were a result of alcohol. It wasn't something that we, and I am sure they, subsequently, are very proud of."

The woman later issued a statement through NZ team sports psychologist Gary Hermansson who has been helping her through the incident.

"In her view the incident was a non-event which should never have become an issue outside of the team, the athlete does not wish the matter to be perpetuated by the media as it is closed," the statement said.


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Currie said the statement was offered by the athlete and not at the request of team management.
Victoria Police Commissioner Christine Nixon said the incident was reported to police in the athletes' village, who decided to take no further action after interviewing the victim.

"We spoke with the young woman involved who said she didn't want any further police action, so we have left it at that," Ms Nixon said

"In assault matters, our prime concern is always the victim's welfare.

"We understand she's being supported and given assistance from her team management."

The two cyclists have since left Australia.

It is the second incident at the village since the Games got underway.

Last week, it was alleged that a masseur with India's team indecently assaulted a teenage girl in the village.

Dewan Nabi, 35, was charged with one count of unlawful assault and one of indecent assault, and was released on bail.

About 5100 athletes and officials are housed in the purpose-built village.

Agence France-Presse

wtf? did they mistake her for a UCI speciman container or somthing??

Wahoo. First decent training ride since christmas today. It's like someone flicked a switch or sumfing. Hope the strength stays about until the weekend.

So she reported it to the police and then decided "Ah what the heck, it was all a bit of fun, don't bother persuing it?" So then why go to the police, and why let the media get a hold of it? :confused:

More importantly....I didn't realise Downhill was a Commonwealth Games event!

First training ride since Xmas Jock? Nice work dude. I've only done 6!

Can you say 'Unmotivated'?

Just once a week?
Our Tuesday night crits finish tomorrow so I'll have Tuesdays and Thursdays... was thinking that might be too much for something so full on, or?

You got me awl wrong. I'm training 6 days a week, just not getting anywhere near the results/improvement I had planned on. I've reshaped the training plan many times to try to get out of the valley of death but to no avail. So I'd learnt to say 'Demotivated', done total crap in the club track champs, done crap in the club crit champs, and only managed a demoralising 3rd in the divisional track champs. Guess I didn't transition training to mix track and road very well.

And then today it just clicked like one fab week last November. Totally shagged out but still able to plant power to the ground. Not little bits but awsome amounts of leg gruel. Now I have four days until the next big thing and have no idea how to maintain the rage. Sad.

Missed all the RR and 1/2 the closing ceremony, we didn't get home till late. Never been a big fan of Farn'm anyway and one fly'n tram's enough.

Had a great time at the regatta but.
Had three races back to back on Satdy in 15/20k, (took about 3 1/2 hrs), big effort Yesty was great with 10/15k of wind. Two races back to back. Got a third in my div. overall. Too good.
Too stuffed to race the Penrif crit. tonight though.