Originally Posted by
Hermes
A'Jet, That is a lot of track sprinting for a rookie trackie. Track efforts are 100% everything you have and one effort is a lot. The high cadence fixed gear aspect make the effort, IMO, much more taxing on the cardio and neuromuscular systems. If one does a sprint tournament which is one flying 200 to qualify and 3 to 4, 3 lap match sprints culminating in a max effort flying 200, it is a monster workout.
You will need a bigger gear but you will also need to spin it at the same rate.
Hermes, I have done the same workout on roads and I do each interval at max effort for the distance. I do allow 8 - 10 minutes recovery between efforts. It is one of those very hard workouts that does beat me up. I believe the track dynamic added to the after effects.
Sprinting different distances has allowed me to meter the effort and not blow up and also to react to others during the battle. I approach the intervals the same as when I ran track. If the workload was 6 x 300 with 5min recovery I would probably run each interval @ 95% of a one time race effort.
I think that track cycling fits my strengths, now it is time to study up.