Now that the 2011/12 track cycling season is underway I thought it would be a good time to bring you a video we shot back in the summer of when myself and Eddie took a trip to Mallorca to see US track cyclist Sarah Hammer.
Sarah is a double world record holder in the individual and team pursuit and 4 times world champion, we're talking the best of the best here.
All of her focus is now on the London 2012 Olympics so it was good to catch up to see how her training and season would pan out and get her views of training on a Wattbike.
It was a pleasure to meet Sarah's coach, Andy Sparks, one of the most respected coaches in track cycling. Andy has a wealth of experience and is currently coaching athletes from the US, Mexico, Turkey and Ireland.
In addition to the team from the Netherlands, you will often see Andy's athletes warming up on Wattbikes in the pits at the major track events, so keep an eye out for that if you're visiting one of the cometitions or watching on TV.
It's fair to say that Sarah's pedaling technique as displayed on the Wattbike's Polar View was pretty much perfect, so impressive, we would love to show you the graphs and we may well ask for permission from Sarah at a later date.
As Eddie pointed out during the visit, it is the consistency of the application of power which is key to good pedaling technique and Sarah just continued to push out perfect Polar View shapes, revolution after revolution.
Take a look at the video below and if you have any questions you'd like us to ask Sarah when we catch up with her in 2012 we'll certainly put them to her.