How strong is strong?
09-19-18, 02:48 PM
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I was thinking 30 seconds during the runup to 180 mph, but my point still stands. Not to take anything away from her but that is a pretty superhuman effort from a female if that were the case. The collated data of female power profiles
https://www.cyclinganalytics.com/blo...cs-for-females
https://www.cyclinganalytics.com/blo...cs-for-females
09-19-18, 02:53 PM
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180 mph is the new 27 mph.
09-19-18, 06:02 PM
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09-19-18, 07:43 PM
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So nowhere in this thread.
09-20-18, 07:07 AM
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Bless our warriors. At AOMM there were a lot of those jersey's and groups doing the event along with some USMC groups.
But.....I saw a lot of the Army Strong and USMC guys walking their bikes up Mitchell.
I had the absolute joy of flatting at mile 30 and riding alone for a few hours somewhere between the lead group and the 2nd group. But, once I got to the mountain you could just keep passing riders that had started popping.
That day, being a skinny little turd was an asset over having a more "crossfit" build like an Army or Marines guy would have.
I posted this in another forum, over on Slowtwitch, but the crossfit folks have the "100 calorie assault bike" workout challenge thing.
To them, anything around 4 minutes is considered exceptional. This is with pedalling AND using arms.
FWIW, most Cat 3 and stronger riders can probably do that in 4 minutes with ONLY the legs. No arms. 400w is pretty close to the raw KJ necessary for 100 calories in 4 minutes.
And that's even a bad assumption as the 1:1 KJ to calorie thing as most non-pro riders probably are not that efficient at energy conversion. It's probably closer to 1:1.15 or something.
After the whole Ashley Horner **** show went down, I decided to see what it was all about. One rainy day during the hurricane I decided to do the 200 and 300 components of a "Murph". I haven't lifted or done stuff like that for a few years. The 200 pushups and 300 squats took me about 35 minutes.
I can see where you'd be crazy cut if you did that with a weight vest. Still more of a fast-twitch thing though.
Wow, that was rambling. Whatever.
But.....I saw a lot of the Army Strong and USMC guys walking their bikes up Mitchell.
I had the absolute joy of flatting at mile 30 and riding alone for a few hours somewhere between the lead group and the 2nd group. But, once I got to the mountain you could just keep passing riders that had started popping.
That day, being a skinny little turd was an asset over having a more "crossfit" build like an Army or Marines guy would have.
I posted this in another forum, over on Slowtwitch, but the crossfit folks have the "100 calorie assault bike" workout challenge thing.
To them, anything around 4 minutes is considered exceptional. This is with pedalling AND using arms.
FWIW, most Cat 3 and stronger riders can probably do that in 4 minutes with ONLY the legs. No arms. 400w is pretty close to the raw KJ necessary for 100 calories in 4 minutes.
And that's even a bad assumption as the 1:1 KJ to calorie thing as most non-pro riders probably are not that efficient at energy conversion. It's probably closer to 1:1.15 or something.
After the whole Ashley Horner **** show went down, I decided to see what it was all about. One rainy day during the hurricane I decided to do the 200 and 300 components of a "Murph". I haven't lifted or done stuff like that for a few years. The 200 pushups and 300 squats took me about 35 minutes.
I can see where you'd be crazy cut if you did that with a weight vest. Still more of a fast-twitch thing though.
Wow, that was rambling. Whatever.
09-20-18, 08:44 AM
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I consider myself to be strong when I'm on a ride that has more than one long climb with steep sections of 10-12% grades (or more) and I don't have to walk portions of the latter climbs. I can usually make up the first one without getting off but second and, heaven forbid, the third, are a challenge. Especially on the gravel rides I've been experimenting with.
09-21-18, 08:52 AM
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09-21-18, 08:58 AM
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09-22-18, 08:01 AM
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09-22-18, 11:00 AM
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09-22-18, 11:43 AM
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Do strong riders yell? And we need to differentiate between domestic strong and you can race in Europe strong