Welcome to the Tue, 06/30/2010 – 02:10 edition of Off Topic! You are looking at the next step in the evolution of VCN, the Off-Topic page. Have you ever been frustrated because you had a burning desire to call someone a sandbagger and could only hope to be timely by posting your comment to a photo gallery page or on a page describing a charity ride?
Well, your prayers have been answered! You can post your comment from the home page and it magically comes to rest here with the other orphans from the land of Misfit Comments. The page gets refreshed every day, but not to worry! Each day’s page will be archived and treasured, so you can look back on past pages with pride, shame or disgust-depending on how the day’s conversation went. So post away! We’ve got an internet to fill up.
“When I first moved to Boulder, I was stuck in the 3’s. I could finish the races but almost never got a top 10. I was so frustrated that I decided that I would either get better or quit the sport. A local training guru told me that I should stop training like everybody else if I wanted to beat everybody else. I needed to pick something in cycling to be good at and train for it. I picked sprinting becuase I thought TT’s were boring and everybody in Boulder thought they were great climbers. During the off season, I lifted, did plyos, anything I could think of to build power. I didn’t want to be a skinny climber, I wanted to be big and powerful. I still did miles on the bike, I just also did a lot of lifting. I went from 170 to 190. Some people thought I was crazy but it worked, by the time the season started I was flying. I went from a 3 to a cat 1 in 6 months. I learned that you don’t need to be like everybody else to win races, in truth you are better off if you aren’t.”
– Jeff King, in a NYVeloCity interview with Schmalz
i aspire to move up to mediocre. currently stuck in lousy.
maybe i need a new powermeter.