Chris Brandt

I feel so beat up after the races, each time. If I'm lucky, I can ride my bike at a moderate intensity by Wednesday or Thursday after a Sunday race. Some time spent stretching, ice bathing, hydrating, and light spinning on the way to work helps me.

Racing as hard as you can for an hour, with some super fast barriers and heavy impact activities like downhill running (Barlow) is pretty abusive. Not to mention the physical contact involved in the first few laps. I often feel like I've been sucker punched in the quads. For me, most of my week is spent recovering for the next battle, not training.

scott hill

i recover by not riding until the next event. oh and play golf one of those days. work great.
 
scott

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From: david baker
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Recovering from a cross race
To: "Johnny ." , obra@list.obra.org
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 10:06 PM

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It might be hard to get sore from 45 minutes to an hour of racing, so if you want to get sore, do two days, or multiple races.
Recovery would be riding, let your legs tell you what to do. Sometimes I am still hot the next day and ride hard, other times I am fried and ride an hour or less at a very easy heart rate(potentially 100 or less BPM).
I think I would agree with one of the other posters that getting sore just means you have done something you are not used to doing. Unless cross is all you do, you should not be getting sore from 1 hour races this late in the season.  

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I've done a couple races over the last few weeks and haven't been sore afterward.  To me that means I'm not pushing it hard enough.  Besides re-hydrating with copious amounts of beer, what do you do to recover from a day of racing?  How sore are you the next day?

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It might be hard to get sore from 45 minutes to an hour of racing, so if you want to get sore, do two days, or multiple races.
Recovery would be riding, let your legs tell you what to do. Sometimes I am still hot the next day and ride hard, other times I am fried and ride an hour or less at a very easy heart rate(potentially 100 or less BPM).
I think I would agree with one of the other posters that getting sore just means you have done something you are not used to doing. Unless cross is all you do, you should not be getting sore from 1 hour races this late in the season.
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I've done a couple races over the last few weeks and haven't been sore afterward. To me that means I'm not pushing it hard enough. Besides re-hydrating with copious amounts of beer, what do you do to recover from a day of racing? How sore are you the next day?

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Brian Engelen

I have had this sitting on my desk. On a good week I do half of it. Brian

I think it is originally from bicyclepaper.com but I couldn't find it there
anymore. Here it is..

http://www.roadcycling.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/435

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I've done a couple races over the last few weeks and haven't been sore
afterward. To me that means I'm not pushing it hard enough. Besides
re-hydrating with copious amounts of beer, what do you do to recover from a
day of racing? How sore are you the next day?

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Joel Morrissette

Johnny-Here's my usual recovery scheme:

Day of race:
Spin legs out for 20 mins post-race on the trainer
Stretch before getting in the car
Hydrate with Accelerade immediately following the race. Consume protein
within 30 min of race to aid in muscle recovery. Have a balanced recovery
meal as soon as I get home.
Nap.

Day after race:
Full recovery day - no training rides, no running, no weights.
If muscles are sore, spin easily on the trainer for 20 mins to warm up the
legs, followed by light stretching to get the kinks out

To me, the key parts to avoid soreness are hydration, stretching and rest,
in that order. If it was a really tough race with lots of hard runups or
mud slogs I tend to be a little sore, largely due to not having enough hill
repeats in my running training. Rides that are taxing but fall within my
usual skills training leave me tired the next day, but not necessarily sore.
I take soreness to mean I asked my body to operate in a way that it
normally doesn't in training.

-Joel

2008/9/30 Johnny .

> I've done a couple races over the last few weeks and haven't been sore
> afterward. To me that means I'm not pushing it hard enough. Besides
> re-hydrating with copious amounts of beer, what do you do to recover from a
> day of racing? How sore are you the next day?
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Johnny .

I've done a couple races over the last few weeks and haven't been sore afterward. To me that means I'm not pushing it hard enough. Besides re-hydrating with copious amounts of beer, what do you do to recover from a day of racing? How sore are you the next day?

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