Kevin is a SoCal TT force. He kicks everyone's collective butts in all the local time trials. He called yesterday because Albert had lent him his helmet at the Boulevard race so Kevin could race...Kevin had actually lent his helmet to a young Swami's rider so Albert was helping him out.
Anyway, the conversation turned into training and equipment and he shared with me that for last year's RAAM he indeed did a 36hr training block on the trainer indoors where he would hammer for 20min, then recover for about 75min, then hammer for 20min, recover and repeat for 36 hours. He tried to simulate as much of the expected RAAM conditions as he could...drank liquid nutrition only, kept his speed on the trainer at above 20MPH, etc.
He said it was one of the toughest things he had ever done. Emotionally it changed him...he want from not knowing if he could do the RAAM to gaining strength from him.
I'm not sure how I feel or what I think about Kevin's decision to do this...on one hand I think it's extreme and on the other hand I love it when people use non-traditional training methods to achieve what they set out.
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