Workshop: BECOMING A GREAT TRIATHLETE IN 2010
Where: Starting Line Sports
67 Main St. Madison, NJ
When: Wed. January 27 @ 7PM
NO COST!!!
RSVP via Email mickey@start-tri.com
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With goals in hand, the next step in planning a triathlon season is to create your 2010 plan:
•Week (I usually list my athletes weeks beginning on a Monday)
•Weeks to Race (countdown # of weeks to key events)
•Period (phase of training – e.g. base building, recovery week, taper, etc.).
•Events (any significant event that week)
•Priority (priority of that event – I like to use A, B, C)
•Goal (goal for that week – e.g. run focus, work on bike drills, easy week, etc)
Good luck, train smart and have a great 2010 season!
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There are a number of factors that prevent you from going fast on the bike, but the two main characters are:
Frictional Drag- from the resistance between the air flow and the objects exposed to the air flow (their surface-area). The resistance is a function of the viscosity of the air which, although very low, is significant enough to slow you down.
Pressure Drag- from the eddying motions that are set up in the air behind the rider as they ride. This is also termed wake (similar to that behind a boat). This type of drag is a strong function of the cross-sectional area of the moving body (you).
The figure below is a good way of illustrating the two. The object on the left is mainly subject to frictional drag, that on the right, pressure drag.
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