Chaingang?

Did my usual 20 mile round trip to get to Matlock tonight only to find no one turned up.

Was there something else on tonight?
Have they informally stopped?
Was a lot harder on my own!

Hi Alan,

Was it the roller/turbo night ?

Yeah, but isn't that most Thursday and I assumed the people who do chaingang wouldn't do turbo ?

Not sure Alan I've only done a couple at the start of winter.
Maybe now put a post up to see who's going ? Not good riding to Matlock to find your the only one.

I've been down to some CG's when there's been a turbo on the same night.

I think numbers are generally down though on chaingangs?

to sustain the chaingang, it needs to be a chaingang, a gang working together.

When I went out with the chingang, it often seemed to degenerate into a string of riders with the fastest at the front, gradually droping one rider after another from the back. Great fun for the fittest guy at the front and generally demoralising for most.

Think you've hit the nail on the head there RIchard and yes I know I was one of the riders which would break the chain.
Must say the numbers where down big time this year compared to last.

Need to sort it great hours training.

Am sure you are right Richard. Once numbers start going down and you get below say 6 it gets very hard work for the weaker ones without a wind shield.

We somehow need to sort like Carl says, as - for a club the size of Matlock I'm surprised really.

Very good training.

You probably need to have some consensus over what people want to achieve from it.

It is pretty unusual for a chaingang to be good training unless it is very carefully incorporated into your planning. Sure they can feel hard, but they are rarely consistently specific enough for much effective work to be done unless there are a few of you at a very similar level who want a crisscross-type session. In the winter that's unlikely to be high on most people's agenda and it's bloody rare for it to work when you get out there. They almost always degenerate into an undisciplined hammerfest. Great fun!

Last winter worked perfectly for me every time.

Very good workout each and every time, about 12 throughout the winter.

Maybe I'm just lucky that they're at the right level for me ?

Yep - they should be fun though, DD

Hi Alan, you've not got a power file from one I could have a look at have you? email is doug.forrester@nottingham.ac.uk.
Cheers,
Doug

If I knew what a power file was I'd send you one DD!