this is where proper fitted TT bike might have made a noticeable difference, but buying one for one YT video is nonsense and rentals for these aren't that common but you can always say your time was poor because the bike wasn't even remotely made for you
Well done, as a track cyclist it's great to see people trying our sport and making a solid effort! And you can tell I'm a good track racer as I'm watching this video with a cast on my broken leg which is my 5th fracture in 12 months ... ! (2 x 40mph pile-ups in bunch races 🤕)
For a quick idea about Ganna, have a look at the 2020 Olympic team pursuit finals. Ganna goes on the front with 2 laps (500m) to go and Italy more than 1/2 a second down and drags it back himself for the win. Everybody is doing 68kph laps, after 3 minutes at a world record pace, and he raises it that much :S
True but you have to relativise the importance of the event/record. It interests very few pro/talented riders, just like many other extreme records (24h, 1000km, faired bike hour record (well over 90km), et. many of these are held by unknown cyclists. On the road Ganna doesn’t do that well, not even in TTs anymore. There are a few guys (maybe half a dozen) out there that would probably beat his hour record if they had any desire for such a thing. @@Mike0
@@michaelw7115No way. It's true Ganna doesn't blow people out of the water in TTs all the time but the hour record is such a different beast. One reason not that many people are interested is that it is just incredibly hard! Saying people could do it if they wanted to just completely omits the mental factor and the track skill you'd need for the thing. Maybe (!) three people can beat top form Ganna: Wout van Aert, Josh Tarling and Remco Evenepoel. None of them seem to want to undergo the preparation necessary and the mental torture of attempting the hour record. There's no way of telling if they could acquire the skills and push themselves in the way Ganna can. Saying they "would probably beat the record" just extrapolates some of their TT efforts without thinking about the hour record specifics. And it is far from an idiosyncratic record. It is the most respected distance record and the only one that pro cyclists attempt pretty regularly. Of course, there's no money in it but comparing it to the 24h record or some other record pretty much nobody cares about doesn't really do it justice.
Look, nobody is suggesting it isn’t a beast and that preparation isn’t torture but to say that no-one cares about other records (which is basically true but then outside niche cycling circles the same is true of the hour record) is in no way proof of how much discipline, preparation, torture, dedication, thought and investment goes into those, all the more impressive because you stay a complete unknown for having achieved unbelievable figures, even by pro standards. Coming back to Ganna for this record in particular, he is just the latest in a long line that have broken this record since about 2015, one even raised it by a bigger margin than he did. All these guys must have had similar qualities and so will the next guy and believe me, the way tech has developed there will be a next guy because the main difference at the moment is technical, you can’t make me believe Ganna is physically so much superior to ride 5km more than anyone before 2015, he’d be unbeatable in EVERYTHING then. We have a long way to go until the HPV record of 92,5km which just goes to show how much difference technology can make at higher speeds. Heck, if Boardman and Obree had been free to continue using modern equipment they’d both probably still have gone further. Fact is you can no longer compare the riders unless in direct competition, it’s like comparing F1 drivers with cars 10 years apart. And those willing to try the old school UCI record test still can’t manage to beat Merckx, only 2 in the last 30 years have ever been SLIGHTLY faster on similar bikes. @@testetetet7504
@@testetetet7504 From my readings, I would classify "The Hour" record as the single most demanding cycling achievement. And there being no great monetary prize, few want to attempt a record. Its nothing but pure pain and suffering with no let up for that hour.
Thanks mark for being encouraging to just go out and move, I have been recovering from two major surgeries in the course of a years time. Slowly working to get my fitness back with walking and low impact exercises. It’s going to take 2 more years of recovery to be back to steady exercise. Thank you again mark. Nixon and Lincoln are my boys 😊
I’m currently working through recovering from tearing all the ligaments in my ankle. It’s been 12 months and I’m almost there but I’ve had setbacks from pushing too hard and going backwards. I hope you’re staying positive and improving everyday. I found keeping a diary is good, because on the days when you are feeling like you’re not making progress you can look back at where you were and this always gives me a lift
btw Mark thank you so much for being upfront about your TRT. I was (finally) motivated enough to seek help and get a diagnosis for my own low T... and I'm looking forward to getting treatment. It's a vicious cycle that having low T (in my case, andropause.. I'm an old fart) means having no motivation to do anything at all, much less seek treatment. Your honest talk about this really helped me. Cheers mate.
Great to see James still at Calshot, he taught me to ride ride track back in 2016! There used to be weekly track leagues here a few years ago, hopefully they return soon
We are waiting for a volunteer to come in and run track racing again however we run weekly/monthly sessions for those who want to keep practicing their skills. You can find more info here: www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/outdoorcentres/ourcentres/calshot/hangar/the-track
Great job on your 440 watt challenge. For those who do not know, that is an obscenely high number to even reach. I have been seriously spinning for about eight months and I can only sustain about 330 watts. My current best is 277 watt per second over 60 minutes.
My daughter’s present for my 57th birthday … a track experience at Calshot🤣. It was amazing … the tutors were so experienced and encouraging. Two years later, I wanted to try out a full size velodrome (Lee Valley VeloPark). Another lovely experience but my favourite will always be Calshot. If you want to go fast on a cycle … go to Calshot (not the dangerous potholed roads!).
I miss riding Calshot. Was never hugely fast with an 11.8 second lap but just loved having another dimension to riding. Loved doing changeovers when riding in a line.
Dude, I love your videos. I'm a little older than you, but same generational upbringing. I know you put in a lot of effort for your videos and it is greatly appreciated. Keep it up , and take a break if needed and come back.
You blew up in 90 seconds going HALF the speed he held for an hour. The gap between fast and fastest is ludicrous. Cycling in particular is insane at the top level. Also Mark's mass isn't even much of a detriment in an event like this as you're holding a steady speed on the flat. The cornering forces add up though, this small tight track will be much less efficient than a proper velo and Mark's mass will mean more energy is lost in each bend
Or you could view it that the effort you need to do to ride at roughly what is your FTP for an hour is the same whether you're Bradley Wiggins or not. There's a bit of a question whether you're fit enough to ride at your ftp for an hour - a lot of regular cyclists won't be, but once you're there then the difference between you and Wiggins isn't effort. The only difference is how far you travel. What your FTP is. Riding at your FTP is the same as him doing it. It's a mistake to try and go faster than this pace and then think "Wow, this guy is putting in this level of effort for an hour?" - no he isn't - he's putting in the same amount of effort you do to ride for an hour. If he tried to ride at a much higher effort than his hour pace he'd blow up in 90 seconds too. If you want to know how it feels to do an hour record then you ride at the max watts you can for an hour - that's how it feels for everyone. If you ride at someone else's hour pace and that's much higher then it'll feel much, much harder and you'll quit after a short time. Just as if you tried to run a marathon at your sprint pace you'll pull up after 50 meters puffing and panting, but so would Usain Bolt or Mo Farah. That said, generally speaking getting the most out of your performance does require an ability to suffer and obviously over a longer event that means suffering for an extended period of time. Elite athletes tend to be much better than the average at enduring suffering and pain. The rest of us stop or back off. But their main skill is simply being faster than everyone else at the same RPE, i.e when you're cycling along chatting maybe you do 150-200 watts, well if someone can cycle along chatting at 250 watts he's flying down the road chatting - he's not feeling like you do at 250 watts - it's just as easy a ride for him as when you go slower. The other way to look at these videos is : they're a bit of fun but they're a bit like getting a guy who is 5'10" to do a video to see if he's as tall as the world's tallest man. He isn't, but he's not as tall as millions of other ordinary people either - it's not like he's showing us a gap that's interesting. There are lots of cyclists in that gap between Mark and Filippo.
Got more than a decade of track cycling under my belt. And have ridden very fast at times. But the 3K pursuit race I did once was hands down the most unpleasant experience I have ever had on a bike. By a long shot. And I've had cars drive into me whilst cycling.
@@PixelVibe42 honestly...I went for it for the first three laps and then realised I still had three more sets of three laps to go. Panicked a little on lap 4. By lap 7 I had tunnel vision. Lap 9 I was starting to black out and couldn't hold the line anymore. By lap 11 I was holding back the urge to throw up. After I finally got off the bike I just sat in a corner for a while and reconsidered my life choices.
@@werdsmyth I also races hour crits, so discovered - by accident - that my lap times in pursuit actually get better in the second half. Good and bad - good that's the case, bad because my coach now thinks I should focus on pursuit (and I agree after all the crashes!).
The feeling of riding a track bike is indescribable. I ride one on the streets (I HAVE BRAKES) And I wouldn't give e it up for the world. It's a weird FIXation I know, but that connection with the road is something you can't replace.
Great effort, Mark. Camera angles when you watch it on the telly don’t show how steep it really is. Really enjoy these videos- hope you’ve got a few more lined up!
As the only indoor, banked velodrome in the south of England, Calshot has a certain claim to fame. The track is 142 metres long with banking of 45°! You can find more info here: www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/outdoorcentres/ourcentres/calshot/hangar/the-track
I'm not damning with faint praise here because we have a decent idea of your above average fitness. Yet seeing you circulating at max effort whilst looking like a pro on a cooldown lap really did highlight how extraordinary they are. Good effort! 😁
Great effort! My only in person experience viewing velodrome racing was in ‘86 at the world cycling championship, Colorado Springs CO. Extremely interesting racing and arguably better for a spectator than watching the road race though I’m glad I was able to experience both. Watching the road race go by a dozen times was a minute of excitement per lap followed by a very long walk around the entire course. Ah, fun when I was a young man.
Awesome effort Mark these type of films make us appreciate even more the amount of effort the professionals have had to put in to get where they are. Keep up the great work.
Human nature: everything appears easy looking in from the outside. I love how Mark puts himself out there to remind himself and us just how impressive professionals truly are. It’s so human to minimize the long term effort and skill it takes to excel to the highest levels whether in sports, business, or any expertise.
I think you may be mistaken when you said your legs were going 4000RPM, that's 66 revolutions a second 😃 I suspect you'd have no unbroken bones in that case
@@TheEulerID Wow, thank you. I started to look at gearing ratios and doing the math with the circumference of the wheel but then got lazy. That would be pretty fast.
I’ve done a taster session at Derby velodrome and track cycling is tough and a lot harder than it looks.. well done Mark on trying to to attempt this feet 😊 Pete 🚴🏻👍
A great next installment in the "Can you hold..." series. Mark, you ought to see if you could get Dan Bigham (technical advisor to Ganna, and previous Hour Record holder himself) on the channel for some optimisation advice, and give it another crack.
I don’t know what it is about cycling that convinces so many people it’s easy. Folks seemingly have no conception of how fast and fit the best riders in the world are.
Glad you did this :) I followed Ganna's preparation and attempt pretty closely, and it was fun to see you stack up against him. If you get a chance I highly recommend finding and watching some of the youtube documentaries about it. The one put out by his team is pretty good
All the professional riders who attempted the 1 hour record said the same. Is the toughest achievement and a horrible feature to attempt. Hard as possible and keep going for an hour.
Excellent video - “do you need the wheelchair”😂😂😂 - glad your still throwing yourself into all sorts - please keep up the awesome videos Mark - all the best 👍🏻👍🏻
I was lucky enough to watch Ganna win Olympic gold (team pursuit in a World Record time) and those guys are all completely nuts. Saw some nasty crashes at high speed, and racing an inch away from other cyclists must be terrifying. Looks a lot different on TV than it does in real life!
Love your videos man. I think they’re informative for the average/above average weekend warrior athletes like myself, lol. Plus I think you’re funny, keep them coming man. Entertaining for sure!
The guys who cycle at the top level are just like the marathon runner, they are absolute freaks of nature. Ganna is also not a small guy at 6’4” and at his heaviest competing 88 kilos. Attempting this on a small track like this would definitely make it harder, but even with perfect conditions mere mortals aren’t getting near this pace.
Great effort Mark. Track riding is hard . It takes weeks to get ‘your track legs’ if you havnt done it for a while. You’ve never done it so to learn to ride the track and then do a kilo is certainly brave! Get some disc wheels in an aero tt helmet tri bars overshoes and a fast tt suit , train on the track for a few weeks and you will easily go faster than 1:30 for a flying kilo 💪🏻
Great video, very entertaining. I had a go at this at the Velodrome in Stratford it was great fun. I also had a go on their BMX track which scared the living daylights out of me. I did both with my then 15 year old son. Highly recommend it.
I was already laughing 1 min into the video. Kudos for that serious effort and quite impressive time you got. Ganna is out of this world quick... as a 46 old 180 pounds above avereage rider i could sustain his 440w for about 3 minutes... im off 57 minutes lol😅
And just at the point where marks big lumpyness appears to become yet another Achilles heel to the thing he's trying to do (at this point it may as well get renamed marks rig) we find ourselves watching him generating a feckload of power to make a thing move, excellent video 😂
The trainer bike at the gym is set up this way. I was used to a more normal trainer and when I hit a max output for a minute and then wanted to coast to catch my breath it almost threw me off the bike and my legs kept spinning around because i was strapped in. I dont think I will be trying this particular style of riding. Really solid effort. I figure you could have done this during your garage training days a few years ago. Thanks for the video Mark
The kilo was my best event, and I'm very familiar with "hitting the wall." And the fact that when you finish and shut the power down it hurts even worse. Looks like you discovered that too.
I cycled there once. The faster I went the more sick it made me feel. Going as fast as you can around those bends is a very strange feeling. Well done.
Now imagine what a track cycling coach feels like when supervising the sessions and keeping up with everyone going around. :) Your head can get dizzy from just looking, but the feeling of cycling on the velodrome is indeed incredible.
I tried track cycling once, about a decade ago, and I'm hoping to give it another go this summer. I know I won't be able to hold a competitive pace, but I just want to get back into the sport.
I once had a wheel skip riding as the first man in a pack at 45km/h on a track before. It's so much fun, but at the same time its a stupid sport. I love it.
Mark, if you ended up with nothing more than far more respect for track cyclists, then it wasn't all a waste of time. Good on you for having a go (and giving us a laugh)!
The 1 hour challenge is apparently the most grueling effort you can undertake on a bike. Physical pain as if your legs are about to fall apart, and yet you have to pedal harder or fail. That non free wheeling bike design is just the cherry on top.
Mark, some of your best videos are of you trying new sports. This was so fun to watch! I think you should try cross country skiing and olympic rowing next, the real stuff. You know you can do the moves in the ergo machines, but how difficult is it to translate to real life? Also, these should make for some funny snow/water related crashes, with lower risk of injury than going full speed in a velodrome I suppose.
If you would like to check the velodrome out, we run taster experience sessions. The feeling of riding around the steep banks is indeed incredible! www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/outdoorcentres/ourcentres/calshot/hangar/the-track/adulttracksessions
The bike has a single gear, not "no gears". Just me being pedantic. Calshott "Taster" session was a great experience for me and my local cycling group. I'd ridden Fixie and Single-speed for a while so I was fine with the bike. What took me by surprise was the G-effect of cornering. Highly recommended though. FYI. The final 50 metres of the mens' Kierin is done at 80km/hr. Nothing in sport, to me, is as crazy as that.
Great effort, bet it's a lot harder than it looks. would be cool to see you two do a cycle event using a tandem bike! I mean what could possibly go wrong?!
Great video. Keep trying new stuff outside your comfort zone. Makes such goo viewing. I agree it’s one of those things that looks easier than I imagine it is. My only cycling is on a spin bike at the gym.
I tried this a couple of years ago, tried standing up on the the pedals for a quick finish and locked the back wheel and dislocated my collarbone. It’s really difficult being so used to having a freewheel 😢😢
I'd like to see you try riding that track with a normal bike with gears and brakes and no toe clips on the pedals. When I was 12 years old, I used to ride my 10 speed Schwinn along country roads and knew where one house had 2 dobermans that were not tied up. The idea was to get a good running start before getting to their house so I could outrun the dogs...which was most likely over 30 mph on a flat road. Once the dogs heard my bike coming, it was game on !! It was stupid...but fun...the dogs got close enough that could nearly kick them in the jaw. I wore out that bike !
Former track cyclist. I was surprised when I saw what the video would be about and knew exactly what was going to happen when you said 143m long track. As a bit of extra into, a smaller track is going to experience more G-forces. Most records are set on 250m tracks so if you want to achieve the same speed you are going to experience a lot more force. 35mph is quite fast on such a sharp turn. The extra force your body feels is going to drain you and make efforts harder to do. Imagine trying to do a sustained effort but every 5 seconds you get a large increase in resistance that then releases, that is what it feels like to go through the turns. For the longer efforts like a 1 hour record you don't feel the G-forces as much (35mph) where as the sprinters will feel it quite a bit more (45-50 mph).
Big lads can do track mate 😉 Hard on those rental bikes though as the gearing is so low. 65 x 12 is usually the norm now for a flying lap if not bigger
Oh my god, I rode Calshot many years ago and broke my collar bone when the rider in front of me swung off the bottom of the track, swung back up and straight into my front wheel. The fall felt like hitting a slab of concrete.
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Somethings look easy...but aren't. Here's one of them 😂
do velodromes look easy :O. great video
this is where proper fitted TT bike might have made a noticeable difference, but buying one for one YT video is nonsense and rentals for these aren't that common
but you can always say your time was poor because the bike wasn't even remotely made for you
Learning guitar is another 😊
I did a 40k TT once, it was more painful than the Ironman I did the year before. TTs are hard.
Try showing us your guitar playing please 😅
Well done, as a track cyclist it's great to see people trying our sport and making a solid effort! And you can tell I'm a good track racer as I'm watching this video with a cast on my broken leg which is my 5th fracture in 12 months ... ! (2 x 40mph pile-ups in bunch races 🤕)
Maybe you should take a year off... just saying.
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@@sorbet4 Have decided to abandon bunch races and go back to sprint. Just me on the track for those, so only myself to blame in future!
get better quickly!
'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’ 🤪
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
@@MannBazza I'd like to think it's continuous improvement, but I know what you mean! Recovering well, thank you!
For a quick idea about Ganna, have a look at the 2020 Olympic team pursuit finals. Ganna goes on the front with 2 laps (500m) to go and Italy more than 1/2 a second down and drags it back himself for the win. Everybody is doing 68kph laps, after 3 minutes at a world record pace, and he raises it that much :S
Having a World record for both 1 hour and also 4km(4 minutes) would be unheard of in other spots
True but you have to relativise the importance of the event/record. It interests very few pro/talented riders, just like many other extreme records (24h, 1000km, faired bike hour record (well over 90km), et. many of these are held by unknown cyclists. On the road Ganna doesn’t do that well, not even in TTs anymore. There are a few guys (maybe half a dozen) out there that would probably beat his hour record if they had any desire for such a thing. @@Mike0
@@michaelw7115No way. It's true Ganna doesn't blow people out of the water in TTs all the time but the hour record is such a different beast.
One reason not that many people are interested is that it is just incredibly hard! Saying people could do it if they wanted to just completely omits the mental factor and the track skill you'd need for the thing. Maybe (!) three people can beat top form Ganna: Wout van Aert, Josh Tarling and Remco Evenepoel. None of them seem to want to undergo the preparation necessary and the mental torture of attempting the hour record. There's no way of telling if they could acquire the skills and push themselves in the way Ganna can. Saying they "would probably beat the record" just extrapolates some of their TT efforts without thinking about the hour record specifics.
And it is far from an idiosyncratic record. It is the most respected distance record and the only one that pro cyclists attempt pretty regularly. Of course, there's no money in it but comparing it to the 24h record or some other record pretty much nobody cares about doesn't really do it justice.
Look, nobody is suggesting it isn’t a beast and that preparation isn’t torture but to say that no-one cares about other records (which is basically true but then outside niche cycling circles the same is true of the hour record) is in no way proof of how much discipline, preparation, torture, dedication, thought and investment goes into those, all the more impressive because you stay a complete unknown for having achieved unbelievable figures, even by pro standards.
Coming back to Ganna for this record in particular, he is just the latest in a long line that have broken this record since about 2015, one even raised it by a bigger margin than he did. All these guys must have had similar qualities and so will the next guy and believe me, the way tech has developed there will be a next guy because the main difference at the moment is technical, you can’t make me believe Ganna is physically so much superior to ride 5km more than anyone before 2015, he’d be unbeatable in EVERYTHING then. We have a long way to go until the HPV record of 92,5km which just goes to show how much difference technology can make at higher speeds.
Heck, if Boardman and Obree had been free to continue using modern equipment they’d both probably still have gone further. Fact is you can no longer compare the riders unless in direct competition, it’s like comparing F1 drivers with cars 10 years apart.
And those willing to try the old school UCI record test still can’t manage to beat Merckx, only 2 in the last 30 years have ever been SLIGHTLY faster on similar bikes.
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@@testetetet7504 From my readings, I would classify "The Hour" record as the single most demanding cycling achievement. And there being no great monetary prize, few want to attempt a record. Its nothing but pure pain and suffering with no let up for that hour.
Thanks mark for being encouraging to just go out and move, I have been recovering from two major surgeries in the course of a years time. Slowly working to get my fitness back with walking and low impact exercises. It’s going to take 2 more years of recovery to be back to steady exercise. Thank you again mark. Nixon and Lincoln are my boys 😊
Good luck with the recovery 💪
This was great!
I’m currently working through recovering from tearing all the ligaments in my ankle. It’s been 12 months and I’m almost there but I’ve had setbacks from pushing too hard and going backwards. I hope you’re staying positive and improving everyday. I found keeping a diary is good, because on the days when you are feeling like you’re not making progress you can look back at where you were and this always gives me a lift
btw Mark thank you so much for being upfront about your TRT. I was (finally) motivated enough to seek help and get a diagnosis for my own low T... and I'm looking forward to getting treatment. It's a vicious cycle that having low T (in my case, andropause.. I'm an old fart) means having no motivation to do anything at all, much less seek treatment. Your honest talk about this really helped me. Cheers mate.
Was the best decision I ever made man.
Great to see James still at Calshot, he taught me to ride ride track back in 2016! There used to be weekly track leagues here a few years ago, hopefully they return soon
We are waiting for a volunteer to come in and run track racing again however we run weekly/monthly sessions for those who want to keep practicing their skills. You can find more info here: www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/outdoorcentres/ourcentres/calshot/hangar/the-track
Great job on your 440 watt challenge. For those who do not know, that is an obscenely high number to even reach. I have been seriously spinning for about eight months and I can only sustain about 330 watts. My current best is 277 watt per second over 60 minutes.
My daughter’s present for my 57th birthday … a track experience at Calshot🤣. It was amazing … the tutors were so experienced and encouraging. Two years later, I wanted to try out a full size velodrome (Lee Valley VeloPark). Another lovely experience but my favourite will always be Calshot. If you want to go fast on a cycle … go to Calshot (not the dangerous potholed roads!).
I miss riding Calshot. Was never hugely fast with an 11.8 second lap but just loved having another dimension to riding. Loved doing changeovers when riding in a line.
Dude, I love your videos. I'm a little older than you, but same generational upbringing. I know you put in a lot of effort for your videos and it is greatly appreciated. Keep it up , and take a break if needed and come back.
Highlight is definitely the shouting of encouragement while laughing at you
You blew up in 90 seconds going HALF the speed he held for an hour. The gap between fast and fastest is ludicrous. Cycling in particular is insane at the top level. Also Mark's mass isn't even much of a detriment in an event like this as you're holding a steady speed on the flat. The cornering forces add up though, this small tight track will be much less efficient than a proper velo and Mark's mass will mean more energy is lost in each bend
I think Mark would be able to improve 20% or more quite easily with some targeted training and a comparable bike to Ganna.
Or you could view it that the effort you need to do to ride at roughly what is your FTP for an hour is the same whether you're Bradley Wiggins or not. There's a bit of a question whether you're fit enough to ride at your ftp for an hour - a lot of regular cyclists won't be, but once you're there then the difference between you and Wiggins isn't effort. The only difference is how far you travel. What your FTP is. Riding at your FTP is the same as him doing it.
It's a mistake to try and go faster than this pace and then think "Wow, this guy is putting in this level of effort for an hour?" - no he isn't - he's putting in the same amount of effort you do to ride for an hour. If he tried to ride at a much higher effort than his hour pace he'd blow up in 90 seconds too. If you want to know how it feels to do an hour record then you ride at the max watts you can for an hour - that's how it feels for everyone. If you ride at someone else's hour pace and that's much higher then it'll feel much, much harder and you'll quit after a short time. Just as if you tried to run a marathon at your sprint pace you'll pull up after 50 meters puffing and panting, but so would Usain Bolt or Mo Farah.
That said, generally speaking getting the most out of your performance does require an ability to suffer and obviously over a longer event that means suffering for an extended period of time. Elite athletes tend to be much better than the average at enduring suffering and pain. The rest of us stop or back off. But their main skill is simply being faster than everyone else at the same RPE, i.e when you're cycling along chatting maybe you do 150-200 watts, well if someone can cycle along chatting at 250 watts he's flying down the road chatting - he's not feeling like you do at 250 watts - it's just as easy a ride for him as when you go slower.
The other way to look at these videos is : they're a bit of fun but they're a bit like getting a guy who is 5'10" to do a video to see if he's as tall as the world's tallest man. He isn't, but he's not as tall as millions of other ordinary people either - it's not like he's showing us a gap that's interesting. There are lots of cyclists in that gap between Mark and Filippo.
Brilliant content and humour as always. Nice one. Chuckled all the way through that. M
Got more than a decade of track cycling under my belt. And have ridden very fast at times. But the 3K pursuit race I did once was hands down the most unpleasant experience I have ever had on a bike. By a long shot. And I've had cars drive into me whilst cycling.
Tactics for any pursuit (as you may know!) - go as hard as you possibly can for the first half. Then do it again .... !
@@PixelVibe42 honestly...I went for it for the first three laps and then realised I still had three more sets of three laps to go. Panicked a little on lap 4. By lap 7 I had tunnel vision. Lap 9 I was starting to black out and couldn't hold the line anymore. By lap 11 I was holding back the urge to throw up. After I finally got off the bike I just sat in a corner for a while and reconsidered my life choices.
@@werdsmyth I also races hour crits, so discovered - by accident - that my lap times in pursuit actually get better in the second half. Good and bad - good that's the case, bad because my coach now thinks I should focus on pursuit (and I agree after all the crashes!).
It’s roughly the cycling equivalent of racing the 800 meters in running track.
The feeling of riding a track bike is indescribable. I ride one on the streets (I HAVE BRAKES) And I wouldn't give
e it up for the world. It's a weird FIXation I know, but that connection with the road is something you can't replace.
Great effort, Mark. Camera angles when you watch it on the telly don’t show how steep it really is. Really enjoy these videos- hope you’ve got a few more lined up!
Wow the cameras usually dont show just how steep that is! Insane well done
As the only indoor, banked velodrome in the south of England, Calshot has a certain claim to fame. The track is 142 metres long with banking of 45°! You can find more info here: www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/outdoorcentres/ourcentres/calshot/hangar/the-track
I'm not damning with faint praise here because we have a decent idea of your above average fitness. Yet seeing you circulating at max effort whilst looking like a pro on a cooldown lap really did highlight how extraordinary they are. Good effort! 😁
Great effort! My only in person experience viewing velodrome racing was in ‘86 at the world cycling championship, Colorado Springs CO. Extremely interesting racing and arguably better for a spectator than watching the road race though I’m glad I was able to experience both. Watching the road race go by a dozen times was a minute of excitement per lap followed by a very long walk around the entire course. Ah, fun when I was a young man.
Another brilliant and entertaining video. Makes me have a lot more respect for these guys and girls, doing the hour records!
Awesome effort Mark these type of films make us appreciate even more the amount of effort the professionals have had to put in to get where they are. Keep up the great work.
Human nature: everything appears easy looking in from the outside. I love how Mark puts himself out there to remind himself and us just how impressive professionals truly are. It’s so human to minimize the long term effort and skill it takes to excel to the highest levels whether in sports, business, or any expertise.
I think you may be mistaken when you said your legs were going 4000RPM, that's 66 revolutions a second 😃 I suspect you'd have no unbroken bones in that case
Nah I could do that
it was a joke :D
I noticed that too. I wonder if that would be faster than the speed of sound.
@@dskim24 with typical pursuit gearing, it would be around 1,142 mph...
@@TheEulerID Wow, thank you. I started to look at gearing ratios and doing the math with the circumference of the wheel but then got lazy. That would be pretty fast.
I love these videos where you go after. ridiculous target and then find another you can do! Great stuff!
I’ve done a taster session at Derby velodrome and track cycling is tough and a lot harder than it looks.. well done Mark on trying to to attempt this feet 😊 Pete 🚴🏻👍
A great next installment in the "Can you hold..." series.
Mark, you ought to see if you could get Dan Bigham (technical advisor to Ganna, and previous Hour Record holder himself) on the channel for some optimisation advice, and give it another crack.
I don’t know what it is about cycling that convinces so many people it’s easy. Folks seemingly have no conception of how fast and fit the best riders in the world are.
Good one Mark. I started track 2017 yes its scary at first but it is a great workout and really refines your spin and handling.
As a track cyclist, this was very enjoyable and funny to watch!
Thanks Mark - This is exactly the kind of content that made me subscribe the channel!
Glad you did this :) I followed Ganna's preparation and attempt pretty closely, and it was fun to see you stack up against him. If you get a chance I highly recommend finding and watching some of the youtube documentaries about it. The one put out by his team is pretty good
All the professional riders who attempted the 1 hour record said the same. Is the toughest achievement and a horrible feature to attempt. Hard as possible and keep going for an hour.
Excellent video - “do you need the wheelchair”😂😂😂 - glad your still throwing yourself into all sorts - please keep up the awesome videos Mark - all the best 👍🏻👍🏻
The joy in James voice seeing you blow up was definitely noticed. 😂
I was lucky enough to watch Ganna win Olympic gold (team pursuit in a World Record time) and those guys are all completely nuts.
Saw some nasty crashes at high speed, and racing an inch away from other cyclists must be terrifying.
Looks a lot different on TV than it does in real life!
Thanks for sharing. When non-pros compare ourselves to pro athletes, there is almost always that "oh wow" moment and you provided one for us.
Absolutely hilarious thanks Mark! A time you can now beat 🤭
Glad you enjoyed it
The no breaks, no gear bike in a slingshot sounds absolutely terrifying. 🙈 Good job!!👏🏻
Love your videos man. I think they’re informative for the average/above average weekend warrior athletes like myself, lol. Plus I think you’re funny, keep them coming man. Entertaining for sure!
Fantastic, I went there in the scouts 45 years ago! 😂 Brilliant 👏
Fun vid, thanks. Ganna is unbelievable. Most people (99.9%) can't even sprint as fast as he was going for an hour.
I went on a residential to calshot and does on that exact track
The guys who cycle at the top level are just like the marathon runner, they are absolute freaks of nature. Ganna is also not a small guy at 6’4” and at his heaviest competing 88 kilos.
Attempting this on a small track like this would definitely make it harder, but even with perfect conditions mere mortals aren’t getting near this pace.
Great effort Mark. Track riding is hard . It takes weeks to get ‘your track legs’ if you havnt done it for a while. You’ve never done it so to learn to ride the track and then do a kilo is certainly brave!
Get some disc wheels in an aero tt helmet tri bars overshoes and a fast tt suit , train on the track for a few weeks and you will easily go faster than 1:30 for a flying kilo 💪🏻
Great video, very entertaining. I had a go at this at the Velodrome in Stratford it was great fun. I also had a go on their BMX track which scared the living daylights out of me. I did both with my then 15 year old son. Highly recommend it.
I was already laughing 1 min into the video. Kudos for that serious effort and quite impressive time you got. Ganna is out of this world quick... as a 46 old 180 pounds above avereage rider i could sustain his 440w for about 3 minutes... im off 57 minutes lol😅
I don't know why you being in so much pain is entertaining.But it is. Love ya Mark.
And just at the point where marks big lumpyness appears to become yet another Achilles heel to the thing he's trying to do (at this point it may as well get renamed marks rig) we find ourselves watching him generating a feckload of power to make a thing move, excellent video 😂
Good effort. Shows how awesome the pros are.
Sat in hospital waiting to get my appendix out nice one for the upload Mark
The trainer bike at the gym is set up this way. I was used to a more normal trainer and when I hit a max output for a minute and then wanted to coast to catch my breath it almost threw me off the bike and my legs kept spinning around because i was strapped in. I dont think I will be trying this particular style of riding. Really solid effort. I figure you could have done this during your garage training days a few years ago. Thanks for the video Mark
Very entertaining. After years of cycling, I rode a velodrome and thought I was going to vomit. You're not alone 😅.
You have some of thr best content on this platform. Much respect😂
As long as Mark doesn't end up with a horrific splinter after sliding out on a horrifically banked surface, I'm counting this as a win.
When I saw the pink socks , I knew you had this 👍🏻
The moment you said "my first lap was my best so far" was when I knew you wouldn't make it 😂. Thanks for the insights
You want to just try get out the gate with the gear he was turning. Very funny though. Track riding is hard! Great effort!
Another great video! And not to get "all science" with you mate, but track bikes have ONE gear. Cheers!
2: forwards and reverse!
Yea !! More cycling videos.
Hey mark great vid as usual, you might want to turn down (or even off) the music at 7:25 in my opinion
The kilo was my best event, and I'm very familiar with "hitting the wall." And the fact that when you finish and shut the power down it hurts even worse. Looks like you discovered that too.
I cycled there once. The faster I went the more sick it made me feel. Going as fast as you can around those bends is a very strange feeling. Well done.
Now imagine what a track cycling coach feels like when supervising the sessions and keeping up with everyone going around. :) Your head can get dizzy from just looking, but the feeling of cycling on the velodrome is indeed incredible.
Absolutely Brilliant Mark - your best video ever.
I tried track cycling once, about a decade ago, and I'm hoping to give it another go this summer. I know I won't be able to hold a competitive pace, but I just want to get back into the sport.
I once had a wheel skip riding as the first man in a pack at 45km/h on a track before. It's so much fun, but at the same time its a stupid sport. I love it.
Mark, if you ended up with nothing more than far more respect for track cyclists, then it wasn't all a waste of time. Good on you for having a go (and giving us a laugh)!
Had a track blocks away till I was about 25 used to take my road 10spd a Peugeot, all the time it was a blast.now a community College lol.
11:19 “do you need the wheelchair?”
Wonderful video! I really enjoyed watching you try this sport. Thank you!
The 1 hour challenge is apparently the most grueling effort you can undertake on a bike. Physical pain as if your legs are about to fall apart, and yet you have to pedal harder or fail.
That non free wheeling bike design is just the cherry on top.
I feel like thats the horror. Once you are done you can't just freewheel and die peacefully. You have to keep going as you slow down.
Ahhh....Calshot! I used to love it there...I've still got the scars on my arse from those boards 😂
I can already tell this will go viral years from now
Hahaha, Calshot! Should have gone to London or Cardiff for your first experience on the track. Calshot is insane.
We can only go to places kind enough to have us 😁. Not everyone wants us filming like this.
Calshot is something else though - a wall of death crossed with an industrial freezer…
@@nstrug it was nippy 😂
Mark, some of your best videos are of you trying new sports. This was so fun to watch! I think you should try cross country skiing and olympic rowing next, the real stuff. You know you can do the moves in the ergo machines, but how difficult is it to translate to real life? Also, these should make for some funny snow/water related crashes, with lower risk of injury than going full speed in a velodrome I suppose.
Very interesting. The 60 sec from Ganna are super crazy.
I'm a BMX guy and it's always hilarious seeing people try to exert athletically on a single speed bike.
It's a lot harder than it looks!
From time to time I ride an ordinary, which reminds me, that riding a safety bike is as easy as it looks 😉
Great job! It must be a super experience
If you would like to check the velodrome out, we run taster experience sessions. The feeling of riding around the steep banks is indeed incredible! www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/outdoorcentres/ourcentres/calshot/hangar/the-track/adulttracksessions
The bike has a single gear, not "no gears". Just me being pedantic.
Calshott "Taster" session was a great experience for me and my local cycling group. I'd ridden Fixie and Single-speed for a while so I was fine with the bike. What took me by surprise was the G-effect of cornering. Highly recommended though.
FYI. The final 50 metres of the mens' Kierin is done at 80km/hr. Nothing in sport, to me, is as crazy as that.
This dude got humor. I like it
Really like your fitness challenge videos.
That was very entertaining and informative. Nice to understand a bit of what is involved.
Good effort. That was very funny. Nice one Mark.
Great effort, bet it's a lot harder than it looks. would be cool to see you two do a cycle event using a tandem bike! I mean what could possibly go wrong?!
Bro, you're hilarious. Great video!!
To answer your last question... aerodynamics. Great vid 😂👌🏻
This challenges sounds like pain, but just getting a bike going fast enough to make use of that banked turn honestly sounds like a blast.
Great effort. Calshot is short for a velodrome so the bends are tight. Would you do better at Newport or Manchester? Would you give it another go?
Fantastic, well done and thanks for the entertainment Mark. 😂
Yes mate, really enjoyed watching😂
Great video. Keep trying new stuff outside your comfort zone. Makes such goo viewing. I agree it’s one of those things that looks easier than I imagine it is. My only cycling is on a spin bike at the gym.
Ahhh, the "killer meter" almost did you in.
Another very entertaining video. You’re getting the hand of this 😉
I tried this a couple of years ago, tried standing up on the the pedals for a quick finish and locked the back wheel and dislocated my collarbone. It’s really difficult being so used to having a freewheel 😢😢
I love watching people try and ride a fixie for the first time.
I'd like to see you try riding that track with a normal bike with gears and brakes and no toe clips on the pedals. When I was 12 years old, I used to ride my 10 speed Schwinn along country roads and knew where one house had 2 dobermans that were not tied up. The idea was to get a good running start before getting to their house so I could outrun the dogs...which was most likely over 30 mph on a flat road. Once the dogs heard my bike coming, it was game on !! It was stupid...but fun...the dogs got close enough that could nearly kick them in the jaw. I wore out that bike !
Former track cyclist. I was surprised when I saw what the video would be about and knew exactly what was going to happen when you said 143m long track. As a bit of extra into, a smaller track is going to experience more G-forces. Most records are set on 250m tracks so if you want to achieve the same speed you are going to experience a lot more force. 35mph is quite fast on such a sharp turn. The extra force your body feels is going to drain you and make efforts harder to do. Imagine trying to do a sustained effort but every 5 seconds you get a large increase in resistance that then releases, that is what it feels like to go through the turns. For the longer efforts like a 1 hour record you don't feel the G-forces as much (35mph) where as the sprinters will feel it quite a bit more (45-50 mph).
Why do cyclist refuse to use 400 meter tracks?
Mark. I too rode Velodrome. No brakes. I hated it. I’m a life time 8 hour a week rider. I still hate the Velo. You’re brake on this task
I give you so much credit man
I don’t know that I would have the balls to do that
Congrats good on you buddy
Big lads can do track mate 😉
Hard on those rental bikes though as the gearing is so low. 65 x 12 is usually the norm now for a flying lap if not bigger
Oh my god, I rode Calshot many years ago and broke my collar bone when the rider in front of me swung off the bottom of the track, swung back up and straight into my front wheel. The fall felt like hitting a slab of concrete.