Its possible this may be the final stage of the Giro de Fred! Should it continue to warm up, by next week we may cancel and just go ride outside! This might be the first cycling event which good weather brings to end.
That being said, based on 20 degree overnight temps tonight, stage 4 is on for tomorrow morning. Its going to be a longer one, 85 minutes of "training". We will start the main video closer 6:30 and still aim to wrap it up by 8AM.
Full details below, see you in the morning!
2011 Giro de Fred; an indoor stage race
a pretend stage race presented by Bike Not Bombs and The Cambridge Bicycle Racing Team where you will ride hard and the only thing you win is stronger legs and extra laundry.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Stage 3
Were staying in the mountains again this week. Tomorrows stage, "the Hunted" is all about solo effort. Ive done this workout a number of times and its a good one. Some of the best footage we've seen so far and one LOOONG climb.
As always, thank you for supporting Bikes-not-Bombs with your donations, and thanks please support our sponsors, Cambridge Bicycle and thesufferfest.com.
As always, thank you for supporting Bikes-not-Bombs with your donations, and thanks please support our sponsors, Cambridge Bicycle and thesufferfest.com.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Stages so far...
The Giro is 2 stages in and things are getting as exciting as riding indoors on a tuesday morning can possibly get! The sufferfest
Stage 1 "fight club,"saw us riding 4 laps of to footage of the 2009 Wold Championship Road Race and featured very aggressive racing! The riders started each lap with a 4 min TT effort to break away from the pack. The real hurting came during an short 4 min climbing effort. Everyone got a brief recovery to some footage of a mountain descent before lather, rinse, repeat. In addition to the course, stage 1 also saw 23 spirited attack from a very aggressive piece of footage of the Italian national team. Riders had to respond to each one with a hard surge, and that clip was relentless! It would attack anywhere on the course, stalking us until we thought we were safe!
Stage 2 "angels," took us into the mountains for a climbing themed stage. We had some warmup to footage of velodrome pacelining, complete with pulls at the front of the group. The stage started off with 10 minutes of over/unders, brief intervals above and below threshold effort to warm up the legs. The real meat of the stage was in the climbs! We faced an 8 minute climbing effort 3 times. Each climb featured footage of a different pro, which demanded different tactics to stay in contact. We climbed in Leige-Bastogne, paris-nice, and the Dauphine against the likes of contador and schleck. Some climbs were steady grinds, others demanded surges.
Its been great to see folks turning up for the stages each week. Its been a steady crew of racers who brave the early wakeup to come and train. All have put in good efforts and report ravenous appetite the rest of the day. The workouts, downloaded from CB team sponsor TheSufferfest.com have all been tough, about as tough as you could do in an hour and still get effective training. Im not sure what the other tenants of the brewery think of the techno-rock blasting early in the morning, but so far there have been no complaints.
Much thanks to Bikes-not-Bombs for hosting the event and the Cambridge Bicycle Racing Team for producing it.
Stage 1 "fight club,"saw us riding 4 laps of to footage of the 2009 Wold Championship Road Race and featured very aggressive racing! The riders started each lap with a 4 min TT effort to break away from the pack. The real hurting came during an short 4 min climbing effort. Everyone got a brief recovery to some footage of a mountain descent before lather, rinse, repeat. In addition to the course, stage 1 also saw 23 spirited attack from a very aggressive piece of footage of the Italian national team. Riders had to respond to each one with a hard surge, and that clip was relentless! It would attack anywhere on the course, stalking us until we thought we were safe!
Stage 2 "angels," took us into the mountains for a climbing themed stage. We had some warmup to footage of velodrome pacelining, complete with pulls at the front of the group. The stage started off with 10 minutes of over/unders, brief intervals above and below threshold effort to warm up the legs. The real meat of the stage was in the climbs! We faced an 8 minute climbing effort 3 times. Each climb featured footage of a different pro, which demanded different tactics to stay in contact. We climbed in Leige-Bastogne, paris-nice, and the Dauphine against the likes of contador and schleck. Some climbs were steady grinds, others demanded surges.
Its been great to see folks turning up for the stages each week. Its been a steady crew of racers who brave the early wakeup to come and train. All have put in good efforts and report ravenous appetite the rest of the day. The workouts, downloaded from CB team sponsor TheSufferfest.com have all been tough, about as tough as you could do in an hour and still get effective training. Im not sure what the other tenants of the brewery think of the techno-rock blasting early in the morning, but so far there have been no complaints.
Much thanks to Bikes-not-Bombs for hosting the event and the Cambridge Bicycle Racing Team for producing it.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Stage 2, Tuesday Feb 22
Stage 2 is on for Tomorrow morning!
This weeks stage is "Angels" from thesufferfest. The music is less Techno and more Alt-rock than last week. This is a climbing workout, with the focus on 8 minute climbing intervals. This workout features everyone's favorite spanish beef inspector and current former Tour champ Alberto Contador as well as the Jungle Cat-like Andy Schleck.
Full workout details and preview below. As we did last week, doors will be open at 6:30am, folks can setup and warmup to entertaining youtube/vimeo clips of bike racing, we will start the main workout before 7am. We will be wrapping up by 8am.
Plenty of parking in the brewery lot or on the surrounding streets. As always, donations to support BNB programing are appreciated! (come on, they are letting us stink up their offices every week!)
This weeks stage is "Angels" from thesufferfest. The music is less Techno and more Alt-rock than last week. This is a climbing workout, with the focus on 8 minute climbing intervals. This workout features everyone's favorite spanish beef inspector and current former Tour champ Alberto Contador as well as the Jungle Cat-like Andy Schleck.
Full workout details and preview below. As we did last week, doors will be open at 6:30am, folks can setup and warmup to entertaining youtube/vimeo clips of bike racing, we will start the main workout before 7am. We will be wrapping up by 8am.
Plenty of parking in the brewery lot or on the surrounding streets. As always, donations to support BNB programing are appreciated! (come on, they are letting us stink up their offices every week!)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Stage 1
Stage 1 will be held at the Bikes-Not-Bombs Hub in Jamaica Plain on Tuesday Feb 15 at 6:30AM.
This stage will feature a good warmup, and then we jump right into the pain with "Fight Club" from thesufferfest.com.
All "competitors" should bring;
-a bike (duh)
-a trainer
-bottle and towel, if thats your jam
-courage
-a $5 bill to donate to BNB for hosting the event. (optional)
Whats the workout?
Im so glad you asked...
This stage will feature a good warmup, and then we jump right into the pain with "Fight Club" from thesufferfest.com.
All "competitors" should bring;
-a bike (duh)
-a trainer
-bottle and towel, if thats your jam
-courage
-a $5 bill to donate to BNB for hosting the event. (optional)
Whats the workout?
Im so glad you asked...
Fight Club is scrappy, messy, and unpredictable. Like a real bike race, you’re working hard to stay with the leaders, while fending off attacks and doing your best to make the race by attacking as well. This is the only cycling workout video featuring officially licensed footage from the UCI 2009 Road World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland. You’ll be racing with – and against – Cancellara, Evans, Kolobnev, Cunego, Gilbert, Wiggins, Martin and more!
Workout Details
The Fight Club workout was designed to build power over longer durations, while increasing leg-speed through 23 (!) unannounced ‘attacks’ that will challenge you to accelerate and then recover while still making a massive effort. And to make you wish you never heard of The Sufferfest. But we won’t take that personally. Here’s what you’ll get over the roughly 60 minutes:
- 5 minutes warm-up featuring video footage from a ride along the Yaara river in Melbourne, Australia from Ride By Shooting.
- Five ‘laps’ of racing, featuring footage from the UCI 2009 World Championship Time Trial and Road Race:
- 1st lap:
- 6:00 of tempo riding, with a few attacks to break up the field
- 1:00 recovery
- 2nd – 5th lap:
- 4:00 time trial effort (with more attacks!)
- 2:30 climbing (with even more surprise attacks!)
- 3:00 recovery (no attacks – we’re cruel, but not that cruel), featuring footage from Cyclefilm’s descent of the Col du Glandon
- 1st lap:
- 5 minute warm-down featuring some footage from the UCI Artistic Cycling championships. It’s really got to be seen to be believed.
We should wrap up around 8am.
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