Tripleshot Cycling

I think one thing that distinguishes us in the TTT is that we're always rotating. When we go training, it's not just two by two, double paceline with guys taking five, ten minute pulls at a time. We're constantly breaking up into smaller groups, constantly doing paceline drills and rotation, constantly doing TTT scenarios, not just on time trial bikes on time trial workouts, but on road bikes when we're going on training rides as a group. In my opinion, if you have a training ride, you've got ten or fifteen guys and they're just riding in a pack all day, that's completely useless, they get no skills outta that. But if I can have all those guys lined up in a single paceline, running different scenarios, drills, talking about the wind, getting that kind of solid practice in, then it makes a difference on race day.

AS: Do you have a preference for a rotating double paceline or having riders taking longer pulls in a single line?

AL: There are very very few situations where the double paceline is faster. Almost always the single line pull is faster. The one caveat is if you have a very very homogenous team, where everybody's of equal strength, and you're going really fast. If speeds are very very high, and the team is completely equal, then the rotating might be faster. But it usually isn't because when you rotate you end up riding down to your weakest link. When you ride in a single line you're able to have the stronger riders take longer pulls and bring up the speed, and have the weaker guys take shorter pulls and maintain the speed.

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