Bike Strong?

General
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Paid for cross training

I have 2 jobs which I count as cross training.

  1. I do guided tours by bike. Mostly the customers use electric mountain bikes and I can normally keep up with them on my 29in mountain bike (not electric) which on flat ground I can sustain 15-17mph

  2. On Friday and Saturday nights I work as a rickshaw rider. The rickshaw weighs 110kg and I quite often get up to 4 drunk passengers piling on which brings the weight to over 400kg

Both these help a lot with fitness, stamina, strength and getting used to spinning fast, BUT and its a big BUT! nothing helps to cross train for the rapid micro corrections that are required for the uni at speed… I guess the only training for that is riding the uni fast. Unfortunatly so far I have only been able to comfortably sustain 10-12mph for long distances with spurts up to 17mph

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Another thought on this - uphill unicycling is probably very good training for biking. I’m thinking here of how Graeme Obree reportedly trained, with one of his most important sessions being forcing a big gear round riding uphill - not so far removed from what we get when riding up steep hills. Of course as with all training you have to put the miles in on the bike as well, but I’m thinking that combining uni and biking may actually be better training for both than just doing each individually (or at least that’s how I’m justifying my current training regime of mixing the two - it does seem to be working as from nowhere I was flying on the bike today, after going pretty well on the muni last night).

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3/6/13 aracer- 13.2 miles bike ride with 20 mph avg. Smokin fast… uni strong!
6/3/13 paxuni- 4.3 miles muni ride with 6.1 avg and new trail conquests… bike strong!

:):):slight_smile: if only we could get the date straight. I think this was both today? Rain felt good after 90 degree days.