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Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 12:17 pm
by NeilA
A few local me been trining for 3 weeks
My first round are ready to train but the first race isn’t to the 27th of July so I’m holding off as once I start it’s nightly after work to they fall apart
How many trainers do you give your babies ?
I start 4/5 weeks before the first race try to go 5 times a week then 4 nights a week from race 1 to race 5 then that’s the season finished for me
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 1:58 pm
by Anthony webster
I don't start to about month before racing but some times I will toss 10 times in one day n toss regularly mine might get from 1st July until last race between 80 n 100 plus tosses .
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:19 pm
by Andy
I’ll start about 3 weeks before the first race. Will have around 3 tosses at 9 miles and 3 around 18 miles and that’s it for me.
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:18 pm
by NeilA
Andy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:19 pm
I’ll start about 3 weeks before the first race. Will have around 3 tosses at 9 miles and 3 around 18 miles and that’s it for me.
I think I will have 65-70
Do you not train short in the week between races or with your radius I guess it’s pointless
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:48 pm
by Anthony webster
I think bigger the radius the more they want training ,,
5 mins in wrong batch n its race over ,
Last season 9 races fed is 100 miles by 70 I was in first 8 of fed 9 weeks running ,if I had just loft flown they would of got hammered.
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:53 pm
by Andy
NeilA wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:18 pm
Andy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:19 pm
I’ll start about 3 weeks before the first race. Will have around 3 tosses at 9 miles and 3 around 18 miles and that’s it for me.
I think I will have 65-70
Do you not train short in the week between races or with your radius I guess it’s pointless
I’m just not one for training. By the time we start racing some of those in our club who have been training heavy have very few left. I was 2nd & 5th from the first young bird race and had the best returns in the club only dropping 1 bird. I dropped another in the second race but did lose a few in the third which was a terrible race. After that I lost hardly any before the end of the season. The ones left had all 8 young bird races.
But as you say with our combine they are going to get pulled all over the place. When I just raced in the nationals they would get half a dozen trainers before going 100+ miles and being dragged all over the country.
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:55 pm
by Andy
We have one member in our club who has had 3 tosses with his youngsters so far and been hit twice by the peregrine.
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 5:37 pm
by Anthony webster
Andy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:53 pm
NeilA wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:18 pm
Andy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:19 pm
I’ll start about 3 weeks before the first race. Will have around 3 tosses at 9 miles and 3 around 18 miles and that’s it for me.
I think I will have 65-70
Do you not train short in the week between races or with your radius I guess it’s pointless
I’m just not one for training. By the time we start racing some of those in our club who have been training heavy have very few left. I was 2nd & 5th from the first young bird race and had the best returns in the club only dropping 1 bird. I dropped another in the second race but did lose a few in the third which was a terrible race. After that I lost hardly any before the end of the season. The ones left had all 8 young bird races.
But as you say with our combine they are going to get pulled all over the place. When I just raced in the nationals they would get half a dozen trainers before going 100+ miles and being dragged all over the country.
I understand m8 but I hear this weekly off flyers like it's a achievement, I got them all home ,I don't understand that there's no prizes for full returns so I can't see the big thing about full returns it's nice but racing pigeons is about racing n winning surely .
It's a nightmare here now for peregrines but these will get same treatment up at 3 30am in basket down Rd n trained .
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:36 pm
by NeilA
Anthony webster wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:48 pm
I think bigger the radius the more they want training ,,
5 mins in wrong batch n its race over ,
Last season 9 races fed is 100 miles by 70 I was in first 8 of fed 9 weeks running ,if I had just loft flown they would of got hammered.
Trouble is Andy only gets 35 mile races for old birds most weeks I guess ybs are even worse for it
The radius could be wider than the distance flown
I couldn’t be doing that
Re: Yb training
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 6:40 pm
by Anthony webster
Very hard to race 35 Miles