I have inherited a new training toy. A friend of mind just got a set of powercranks from a guy on the UNR team who made these torturous contraptions himself. For some odd reason he gave them to me to use…..I think he’s using me as the guinea pig, which is fine by me.

With a flip of the wrist the cranks were on by 10pm. Its too bad there’s no light out to test theses bad boys. I feel like an anxious kid the night before Christmas. So what do I do……I take them for a spin a few times around the block.

Absolutely amazing, I must have looked like a freak show (more then usual). My pedaling was off the mark by a lot. I am persistent and soldier on. I eventually can get a rhythm going for a bout 20seconds and then the wheels fall off.

I have been researching physiology journals on the powercranks as well as googeling them. The people were definitely not kidding about only being able to ride for 5mins before complete muscle (non-existent muscle) failure sets in. I know it’s going to take some time to get use to the technique as well as time to build the muscles to ride long distance. My plan is to use the cranks on my cross bike and just commute to school and work. I plan on continuing to do my intervals on my normal set of cranks “BURYING IT” if you will. If your reading this mike, this is the phrase I say in my mind as I am doing hill repeats.