Maintaining some movement can keep your legs from growing stiff. It requires an individual cost and benefit analysis based on the course, the field, and the importance of the start.Īlex’s Pro-tip: If you have to stand around in a corral, try spinning backward while holding onto something to stabilize yourself. If you’re racing a big event where you have no call-up and the field size is big, it can be worth it to cut your warmup a little short and get a better starting position in the corral.
If you’re racing at a point series event where you have a call-up, you might be able to get away with spinning longer while you wait for your name to be called. While warmups are important, sometimes it’s necessary to cut your’s short and get a good starting position.
Depending on whether or not he has a call-up, Alex will try to be at the line 15 minutes before the start. He uses this time to spin until it’s time to line up. This puts his warmup around 20 minutes and generally leaves him with extra time until the start. To finish, he does five minutes of endurance with three quick high cadence spins interspersed throughout. After that, Alex takes two minutes off to spin easily. He follows that up with a steady eight-minute progression to threshold. Alex starts with five minutes of slow spinning, ramping from a spin to an endurance pace.
