Comments on: BK Simple Plan

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:41:37 +0000

So Jamie and Brad, now I need to know if you’re doing your hard rides or your recovery rides when we’re riding together. They all seem hard to me.

By: jruss

jruss — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:03:14 +0000

intervals = bmx. there is some heavy math for you.

By: wunnspeed

wunnspeed — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:04:01 +0000

I hate all the numbers, etc. What I really don’t get outside of the Pros is dealing with Watts and all that crap. I definitely get where you’re coming from, I’m using as much of Dr. Michael J. Ross’s stuff as I can swallow. It seems to work quite well with minimum amounts of fuss. Oh.. forget about the whole diet change though. What do I do with the numbers I collect? I’m not really sure.

By: tibiker

tibiker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:56:48 +0000

The year that I trained w/ JR and was a total slave to the HR monitor. I also felt like it took a lot (alright most) of the fun out of riding.
One day I asked a fast friend: “I’m training with JR and feel like I’m totally a slave to the HR monitor, you’re fast, what do you do to train?”

The response: (As close as memory serves) “Ride 1-2 hard rides a week, one long ride a week and the other rides you ride easy and take some rest days. ” Pretty simple huh?

Who gave that answer, yep, you guessed it. Brad Keyes.

Whenever I’m doing Training Peaks workouts and I don’t want to do the detailed workout, but want some wiggle room, I remember that advice and just ride “in the ballpark” of what I’m supposed to do.

I think your on to something BK.

I concur that if you don’t have some sort of plan, you ride too hard. That was the surprising thing about having a coach/plan, that on the hard days you ride REALLY HARD, (which I expected) but on the easy days, you ride REALLY EASY. You can’t go hard every day and that’s the way I always rode before that epiphany. Every ride was a race.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:05:37 +0000

Yes, I honestly have not ridden my bike since cross season except to go to Lone Star Taqueria and I kinda feel guilty. I was thinking about getting the bike set up for commuting but it just keeps snowing. I just got a real bad case of snowboard fever this year.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:57:51 +0000

I like to have someone to tell me what to do. Wait are we talking a bout riding bikes?

nevermind

By: brkeyes7

brkeyes7 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:50:59 +0000

Forrest-I’ve confessed to being a fraud and a cheat on this blog and now I’m confessing to having had a coach last year. Confession has made me whole again. Is there anything you would like to talk about?

By: Forrest

Forrest — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:49:31 +0000

You had a trainer?? That seems so unlike you. Still have not been on the bike for a real ride yet, I will think about the bike when I get back from AK. You guys are going to hurt me real bad this year, but this is how I roll every year, snowboard all winter and spring, bike all summer and fall.

By: brkeyes7

brkeyes7 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:51:00 +0000

kk-I’m surprised you being an engineer and not being into watts and cadence and all the numbers. Good.

dug-Your plan is this; Ride as much as you can. Simple. Got it?

Botched-I’ve always wanted to be a shattered spectral waif. I’ll post some pics when I get there.

By: botchedexperiment

botchedexperiment — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:26:53 +0000

Brad will be a shattered spectral waif by July.

You know that part in Forest Gump, when Forest starts running, and just doesn’t stop? That’s how I see Brad…