 So I've just been pulled over by the side of the road by a police officer and I thought I was in trouble 21.4 What were you thinking when you saw daddy descend? I'm confused Confused I'm testing my fitness to see where I'm at How about you Rossi? What did you think mate? What did you think Rossi? Officer and I thought I was in trouble, but he's saying hello because you watch the vlog Yeah, I certainly do Just saying hello, and you got some tips for us maybe coming up on how to corner. Yeah, right I'd really love to get together for five minutes. Absolutely decent is a very high level Everything from a motorbike applies to a push bike. Yeah, and I can guarantee I'll transform your cornering in five minutes flat Absolutely look forward to that. All right. Thanks for pulling me over So I'm at the bottom of gindia drive Wednesday afternoon Bike is here marathons on we're in full training mode and it's a horrible day here in the sunshine coast Come on There it is 24 degrees right now Which is kind of an unfair training advantage really I've got here on the sunshine coast I do miss melbourne dilly. I know all my melbourne supporters are going to be like virtual It's going to roll up a little bit further as soon as I started talking of course massive trucks Just started driving past at the bottom of gindia drive here and there was some gala In a tree just started to hurl out some tunes. That's better. So those scenes that you just saw We're going to get to those shortly what I wanted to do first and if you've just landed here This is actually week two Or I should say episode two of a 10 week series that I'm doing Training for the men's masters nationals road race in south austria About nine weeks time now. I'm also doing the criterion race, which I should have mentioned in the first video And I actually may be better suited to that but we'll talk more about that later Right here right now. It's wednesday this week is week two Of like a step ladder approach that I take to my training. So week one last week was eight hours And I purely did base training sort of sitting in zone two this week I'm starting to implement some high intensity stuff. So I'm doing 10 hours this week Four sessions three at high intensity one's going to be more just zone two base building and in this session today This is a bit of circuit training. So I'm going to be sitting in my bottom end Zone four so my threshold zone for about let's say I'm going to do Up gindia here. It's about three k's there's a 10 k circuit, which I'm going to go around I did a video on this which I'll link to below and then I'm going to go up the hill again after I come down So I'd probably 30 to 40 minutes of zone four training today and that may not seem like a lot but keep in mind I have not been doing any high intensity stuff for a couple of months. So this is my first week And I'm building into it. So this session here in a few weeks time is going to get a lot harder So let's get into it hill climb into circuit complete. I'm going to do one more hill climb It's about three k's then I'll be done and I'm going to share a little tip with you But before I finish the last hill climb, you know, what's so good about this type of training? That side of the physiological impact is that I had 101 thoughts before I started this session Stresses and anxieties and all sorts of stuff And they are now completely gone. It's like a window wiper. I've just wiped them completely clear So I'm rolling down gindia now the high intensity stuff is complete for about 35 minutes all up And the thing that I did today is I kept it in one gear the whole ride So the 53 at the front 14 on the rear and essentially what that does is we're working different systems as we Ride because we pedal at a higher cadence downhills sort of a normal cadence Maybe 80 90 on the flats and then going uphill where about 60 50 60 cadence So we're working the musculoskeletal system. We're working the cardio system Which essentially gives you different tools to utilize come race day Now before I get home. I just wanted to thank body talk. They sent me this kit recently. It's a beautiful kit. Thank you very much for sending it through I've just been rolling around. Well, I've just finished doing some hill repeats and I bumped into some people from specialized Tools, what are you doing here? Secret mission right here. Just put my clothes back on Actually test riding the all new creo SL right. We've got a couple. What do they look like? Is that this bike here? So I'll show you This is actually the evo spec. So the difference between this and the glasses. Oh, thank you This is the difference between the this and the road spec is uh, uh, essentially just the tires You've got the wider handlebars With and just and and a dropper post as well. So electronic e-bikes Road bikes e-road bikes. This is an e-road bike. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, this is the evo model We then have a more road specific model, but yeah, essentially this one's covered in mud because we took it through some single track Yeah, right. So where'd you go today? We've just done 80k with 300 meters of climbing In about two hours 40. Right. So how fast are you going on these things? So we're hitting on the flat just before opening up a little bit going 44k an hour So it's acts like just a normal high performance specialized road bike Right, um, but then when you hit the hills and and you um, it comes back into that 25k limit Then the motor kicks in and you just spin calmly, I guess And pedal up the hill with essentially the hand of god Pushing you up the hills. Look, I'm blown away by it and obviously look, I work for the company But it's not every day you'd get me on a road bike and I'd choose this over my tarmac. Really? Yeah, wow, that's a big call. Yeah, it descends better than it. So Really? Wow. I'm pretty impressed. So, yeah, don't take my tarmac away though So I'm here with nick as well Nick actually appeared in one of the videos recently talking about the differences between the What are we talking about the difference between the entry level tarmac and the top level tarmac? What do you reckon of these machines? What do I reckon of these machines? I don't ride my tarmac anymore That's what I reckon about these machines. Wow till the same the same thing. Why do you what's so good about them? Uh, there isn't much wrong with them to be honest. You still get a workout You can go pretty much anywhere literally explore whatever hills whatever scenery whatever mountaintops And no intimidation no no panic no worries about getting home or Making it over the top of that crest or that kind of stuff and you have beers when you get back And I can talk and drink a beer Why has this got no special eyes on at this one here? Why has it got no special eyes? Because it's been a field test Machine for the last six months. So I've had this had to be sort of undercover and undercover We had a few a few of them around the world doing a lot of field testing kind of final writer approval stuff. So Just checking that all the bits work in the right places and and sending feedback back to our switzerland office Which is where all the technology is produced. So if someone rides up next to you like before this is actually released And say what are you riding? Can you tell them? No Just ride off at 50 kms an hour. So that was certainly not part of today's training plan That is to stop in a random house And have a furfie which is a beer With a whole bunch of specialized people and their dealers But you got to live your life Yeah, no, no, don't don't get on this side, please. Uh, you know, you got your foot in my smoothie She put her foot in my smoothie So I realized something after the last video we did the first as part of this 10 week series last week is the car It's actually a really great environment for me to have a conversation with you in a quiet environment My mother-in-law is still with us Um, but irrespective my wife's always making noise The kids have always left an explosion of mess in the house and it's not a great house This is a first world youtube problem. The house is not a great house from a lighting perspective So the car is pretty good. There's a bit of brightness coming in here, but I think we can deal with that And it's the week here in the sunshine coast. It's been an unbelievable mid-winter week. It feels like summer So I'm actually perched out the front of a bike shop I've just told my patrons about this. I'm going to be reviewing a really really good bike I'm really looking forward to this one. So you'll hear more about that in coming videos What I wanted to do quickly is summarize what you saw at the start of the video It's been another really busy week. This is week two as you saw it was ruby's sixth birthday party I was doing some study there because on the weekend that's just been I've just completed my level one Track and road cycling coaching course My wife in between all this has gone to yapoom, which is about a five-hour drive north and she's completed her first triathlon Let's hear what else had to say about that This is how I get you isn't it before you come inside What are you doing? You did your first triathlon. It was good. Well, how far did you go? Uh, 2k swim, 80k bike, 20k run, and it's your first triathlon ever First triathlon ever. Great run. Great run. And where did you finish him the age group? Six. Six out of hundreds, yeah. Thousands. Thousands And I got pulled over by his names Peter or or Pete which was pretty funny But as it turns out he Pete just follows the channel and we're gonna go for a ride together And he's going to teach us some cornering skills some skills that he's learned Riding on that motorbike of his and also being a road cyclist. So Pete I look forward to that So we're going to start getting into some meaty stuff as part of the series starting next week I'm conscious about a whole bunch of people send me some ideas about like over this 10 week period I like to understand your nutrition plan. I like to understand how you're going to phase in your training schedule Some of you live in a hilly area. So you want to understand how do you build base fitness if you live in a hilly area There's a whole bunch of things that we're going to get through over the next eight to nine weeks But for now we're just setting the foundation and as you saw at the start of this video In between everything else. I've done an ftp test and I weighed myself last week So I've got some work to do interestingly my ftp results The numbers were very similar to A test that I did two and a half months ago where I did the husband versus wife ftp test I'll link to that video below if you haven't seen it But interestingly I was I felt like I was a lot fitter back then about two and a half months ago But ultimately I want to get my ftp. I think the goal is to get the ftp over the next 10 weeks I like to get it up to three 70 Ish around there. I think that's a good goal to have and get the weight down another Five kilos. So I think ftp around three 70 weight around 76 kilos I think that will put me in a in a strong position to perform well in the road race in particular Because there's a number of hill climbs in that we're going to get to the details on what that race looks like And how I'm going to implement that into my training plan in later videos And also the criterion race So more details to follow and I'll catch you in the next video