Comments on: Off The Slack http://thechurchofthebigring.com/2008/04/30/off-the-slack/ Your online source of 2 wheeled salvation. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:23:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Ronsonic http://thechurchofthebigring.com/2008/04/30/off-the-slack/#comment-819 Ronsonic Tue, 13 May 2008 16:46:17 +0000 http://thechurchofthebigring.com/2008/04/30/off-the-slack/#comment-819 I dunno if racing is the best training, but I know it's part of the best training. Unless you race your body won't accept the hardest training, it will reject it as unrealistic or whatever other excuse it can come up with. After a race your legs will crave the fitness and readiness that hard training brings. Human bodies are lazy and pain averse. So if you make them race they realize that training is better than not, so then they pay attention and learn from intervals and other things they'd otherwise avoid or perform in the desultory manner of a 14 year old taking out the trash. When the body learns how bad a real race hurts then wants to train so it doesn't hurt so bad. Damn shame about how it never hurts less, but you do go faster. Legs are stupid and have short memories so we can trick them like that. I dunno if racing is the best training, but I know it’s part of the best training. Unless you race your body won’t accept the hardest training, it will reject it as unrealistic or whatever other excuse it can come up with. After a race your legs will crave the fitness and readiness that hard training brings.

Human bodies are lazy and pain averse. So if you make them race they realize that training is better than not, so then they pay attention and learn from intervals and other things they’d otherwise avoid or perform in the desultory manner of a 14 year old taking out the trash. When the body learns how bad a real race hurts then wants to train so it doesn’t hurt so bad.

Damn shame about how it never hurts less, but you do go faster. Legs are stupid and have short memories so we can trick them like that.

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