Our Winter Training

Posted by Linda Roeder Jan 19, 2007

This past year my son came in 9th in track nationals. That's after only training for about 2 months and being in the lower end of his age group, plus this was his first year bike racing. This year he is hoping to come in first place. That's why he's doing winter training.

His new coach is working on his balance, speed and leg strength.Three days a week his workout includes warm up, stretching, a series of strength training exercises and cool down. He doesn't use weights much, most of the exercises are based on his own body weight.

The other three days a week he does spinning with the group or they go for a bike ride, depending on the weather. They average about 20+ miles per hour on these bike rides and are gone for hours at a time. The spinning classes are about one to one and a half hours long.

He's really learning a lot and getting stronger all the time. When the weather gets warmer they will work on racing techniques more both on the road and on the track.

Junior Track Nationals is far away from us this year. We are in Pennsylvania and Nationals will be in Colorado. Getting him there will be hard but once he's there I'm confident that he'll succeed.

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