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All About Competitive Cycling : Training for Road Races in Competitive Cycling

December 1st, 2009 · 25 Comments

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Riding your bike on hills is an important way to build your endurance and train for road races. Learn how to train for competitive cycling road races in this free educational sports video on bicycling.Expert: Sal Collura Contact: www.velotv.net Bio: Sal Collura has been racing bikes at the elite level for 20 years. He placed 5th overall in the Criterium rankings for the State of Oregon in 2007, and 3rd overall in 2006. Filmmaker: Sal Collura

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25 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Anonymous // Dec 3, 2009 at 5:09 am

    ill send you some info

  • 2 Anonymous // Dec 4, 2009 at 11:05 am

    dont hit the hill as hard as you can you will blow out and suffer. the best thing to do is get spinning a low gear around 200 meters before the start and hold your cadence for as long as your can and try not to shift into a lower gear. get your pedaling in sync with breathing in out left right etc.

  • 3 Anonymous // Dec 5, 2009 at 1:24 am

    a track bike or a road bike?

  • 4 Anonymous // Dec 5, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    you in missouri? i’d ride with you

  • 5 Anonymous // Dec 6, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    specialized, giant, cannondale, orbea, look, felt….each of these has entry level bikes….from light weight aluminum to carbon fiber….pick you poison. I personally own a giant roadbike, and mountain bike…and also just picked up a full carbon mountain race bike….they all have their own special things these companies do to them, shoot me a message and i can help you from here if you need it

  • 6 Anonymous // Dec 8, 2009 at 11:07 am

    ill ride your ass too the ground.

  • 7 Anonymous // Dec 9, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    Great ideas. Thanks.

  • 8 Anonymous // Dec 10, 2009 at 3:26 am

    Thank you very much. very good information. I’ll do what you said.

  • 9 Anonymous // Dec 13, 2009 at 10:17 am

    i really love cycling and im a little over weight and i really real,ly want to get into this at the moment i have a mountain bike but i need a race bike. pleae help me i do know know any good/bad manufacturers and im getting my bike for christmas. my money line is around £1200 max. and im 13 too im 5ft7 but the rate im growing il be about 5ft8/9 at chrsitmas . what do u recomend i do?

  • 10 Anonymous // Dec 16, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    are you in baguio city po? :)

  • 11 Anonymous // Dec 19, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    i got a orbea orca w/ campagnolo super record gruppo.. who wants to ride w/ me???

  • 12 Anonymous // Dec 21, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    wanna ride w/ me??? im from the philippines

  • 13 Anonymous // Dec 23, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    :O!!!!!!!!!! can i borrow it?

  • 14 Anonymous // Dec 24, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    i have a top bike a trek madone 6.9 pro red 2009

    but u can get a good bike to start for a good price

  • 15 Anonymous // Dec 28, 2009 at 7:56 am

    What kind of a bike is it? Im looking to get into road racing but need a racing bike! I only have a commuter bike

  • 16 Anonymous // Dec 31, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    anybody out there livin in the philippines? particularly baguio city? i need sumone to ride with and who can push me past my limits…hills here are crazy (up to 30% grade)! but i love it! :)

  • 17 Anonymous // Jan 1, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    im not ridin

    im waiting for my new bike

    maybe arriving friday

    its killing me not riding all this time

  • 18 Anonymous // Jan 3, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    I went 50 miles today in the mountains ( not hills ) for a time of 1 hour and 42 mins. This is right under 30 miles an hour. Anyone in the boone NC area let me know if you wanna make a team. I ride almost every single day

  • 19 Anonymous // Jan 6, 2010 at 7:04 am

    Come on down to Orange County in California and ride with Como Street. If you can make it here your doing it right.

  • 20 Anonymous // Jan 6, 2010 at 7:10 am

    Yesyerday I was out there in 107′ weather…

  • 21 Anonymous // Jan 8, 2010 at 4:11 am

    pasadena guy maybe we could go to the la marathon that be so cool

  • 22 Anonymous // Jan 10, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    I just started too dude, I live in Los Angeles too. Let me know if your still looking for guys, I usually ride at Pasadena

  • 23 Anonymous // Jan 13, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    i just started who want to make a team i live in los angeles….

  • 24 Anonymous // Jan 16, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    i try to be good in runner and climber

    most of time i just train hills ;) i train 1.30 /2.00 hours every day ;)
    im 6 feet 3 and 168lbs who s a good weight between runner and climber

  • 25 Anonymous // Jan 18, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    Good points. Not going uphill in a big big gear: That will just add bulk and/or give you knee pain. But, you should try and charge up the hill as rapidly as you can. This will also force you to pedal CONTINUOUSLY. I used to be a runner. And one thing about running, you have to keep it up constantly. (Unless you do “run/walk” to get into shape.) Cyclists, even if they don’t admit it, spend a lot of time coasting (sleeping.) Charging up hills forces them to work constantly.