Originally Posted by
taras0000
One of the former Canadian National team guys (Jim Fisher) would spend all day on the rollers the day of the Kilo and TS. He must've ridden 40km prior to each event just warming up on rollers all day.
during long hard race weekends i'm probably on rollers for longer than i am racing. and i like to break it up, too - an hour during a morning session, maybe more, sprinkled over a few periods; half hour as a warmup-warmup to loosen myself up during my racing session, and then an actual half-hour warmup before my race. followed by a fifteen or twenty minute cooldown.
i mean, a good rule of thumb is the shorter the race, the longer the warmup. that goes double for track racing; in a crit, you might be able to say "i'm just gonna tailgun for the first fifteen or twenty minutes and get loose," but that's pretty impossible even in a 'long' track race.