Brick Sessions
nevertoolate
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Did my first brick session today. Bike (13 miles) to run (3 miles). To say it felt odd would be an understatment!
Is it normal for your legs to feel like someone has filled them with lead?
Is there any technique whilst coming to the end of the bike ride that can prepare my legs a bit more for running?
What brick sessions do you guys complete?
Is it normal for your legs to feel like someone has filled them with lead?
Is there any technique whilst coming to the end of the bike ride that can prepare my legs a bit more for running?
What brick sessions do you guys complete?
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You can try changing to a lower gear to get your legs spinning quicker for the last few hundred metres, that might help get your legs used to a higher turnover for running.
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How far/long do people do on each?
One more thing - doing brick sessions does this make the jelly legs disappear or is it a case of getting used to the feeling?
thanks
Regarding the massive bike seats - i had a kind word with my gym and they allow me to take my turbo trainer in so that i can do rep brick efforts as well as swim, bike runs sessions once the season gets closer.
if you don't ask - you won't get
I think do lots of small ones more so than a weekly biggie
Keep on Bricking it!!!!! LOL
Anyway, just to add another one into the mix... towards the end of the bike I also like to go to a really big gear and stand up, just turning the legs over slowly. It feels good to kind of squeeze the muscles out, but most importantly helps get my back ready for being upright instead of hunched over. It might work for you.
Personally I do both the high cadence spinning and some low cadence stretching. I'll try the squeeze technique too. I bet I still run like a penguin for the first k though. [:D]
I'm firmly convinced that however many bricks you do it is always going to feel a bit weird. I can also remember my first tri, where I'd never even heard of bricks and never run off a bike before. I think I nearly died.
bricks definitely work in the gym - gives other people on the treadmills a good laugh too
The biggest problem is bricking from pool to bike..still haven't got a decent method going yet.