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Would be nice to know if he is on target or not...seems the timer is not working
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nothing worse than a soggy egg
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about 30 seconds up after 50 laps
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averaging 16.5 secs per lap after 60 laps from standing start.
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Gonna add about 2 and a half kilometres to the record.......wowsers
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Perfection personified!
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54.526 kilometres in one hour.
Chapeaux Wiggo. |
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I'm a reasonably fit, fiftysomething and had a go at 1 hour on a bike (albeit a stationary one in my gym) on Saturday, just for sh1ts and giggles.
Did just over 34km but was absolutely rinsed, to the point of greying out immediately after I finished. The thought of anyone sticking another 20 kms on top of that goes beyond 'pain' |
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Punching through the air at those speeds is beyond belief. I think I read somewhere that above 25mph 90% of additional effort goes into overcoming wind resistance and only 10% goes into generating additional speed.
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RTB..that ain't bad my man
wiggo's an awesome TTer..his bike uber state of the art had u been on that round a track u may have got closer to the high 30s which is very commendable |
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Eeternaloptimist
08 Jun 15 10:11 I think I read somewhere that above 25mph 90% of additional effort goes into overcoming wind resistance and only 10% goes into generating additional speed. He should get an oxygen bottle with enough for an hour, then go and do it somewhere at altitude, like Mexico City. |
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roger get in tarining and take the record out.
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*training
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Cycling and rowing have a lot in common. Because you are sitting down you can compete to total exhaustion without falling over.
Wiggo looked completely drained after but roger probably needs a few weeks to hone his form and put the record out of reach. |
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Dont want to P!ss on Rogers chips or stop him from doing the training required but 90% of Wiggos effort was displacing air as to 0% of Rogers.
Not sure if those gym bikes are calibrated to take that into account but they do have a watt meter which may be more comparable. Wiggo averages around 470 watts for an hour . |
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Easy Tigers!!!
Have a go at an hour on a bike yourself (and Geoff m is correct, a stationary bike is way more easier to rife against the clock than a road bike on a track) just to see how you get on and given your age and overall health / fitness, put THAT in to context of Wiggins achievement. That was the only reason I did it and put it up here. I don't know how good or otherwise 35 km is for a fiftysomething okayish fitness bloke. |
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34 km even
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