Jake and I were talking about this and he said he'd like to see some of the team members posting what they're doing in terms of riding, training, beer drinking, and so on. I told him I'd give it a go for the remainder of the season to see if anyone really cared. We're not really sure anyone does. Given that I'm not exactly bringing home gold medals every weekend it might be a pretty worthless effort to post what I'm doing since nobody is going to copy my routine. Having said that, maybe people will do exactly the opposite of what I do and learn from that.
Anyway, for the next 6 weeks I'll try to keep this thread updated with what I'm doing. If it proves useless I'll bag it after the 50k race, or before then if it's obvious nobody gives 2 craps. If people find it useful then maybe some of my teammates will jump on board with this later.
My general weekly structure is like this:
Mon: Off or active recovery
Tue: High-end (L5) intervals, 5 minute duration.
Wed: Threshold (L4) intervals
Thu: Off or active recovery
Fri: Off or active recovery
Sat: 4 hour mtb ride
Sun: 1-2 hour tempo (L3)
The first thing to note is that I have 3 days basically off. Given that I have to wake up in the realm of 4:45 to get this stuff in before work, sleep is more important than rolling 5 days a week.
Weekends are up for debate/change. Sometimes I may throw in an L5 Saturday and longer ride Sunday.
Weeks 1/2 will be one volume, weeks 3/4 will be an increase in that. Week 5 will be 50% of week 4. Week 6 will be 25% of week 4. That's a classic taper approach and the whole structure is a pretty classic training approach, but short one Thursday tempo ride.
I immediately threw this out the window this week and did an L4 workout Monday. 2 sets of 20 minutes with a 5 minute rest in between, usually noted as 2x20:5. Tuesday I did the L5 stuff, 4x5:5 which was harder because I didn't do it off a rest day. But I felt good enough to give it a go anyway. Today I did a repeat of Monday, 2x20:5. So the last 3 days have been L4/L5/L4. My legs are pretty tired right now.
Today's entry in my actual blog is an bit of a goofy view on it all. No worries it's not remotely serious: Biking Lent.
I won't link to that every day, just when I post something entertaining. Anyway, I hope someone, somewhere, finds this useful.
Anyway, for the next 6 weeks I'll try to keep this thread updated with what I'm doing. If it proves useless I'll bag it after the 50k race, or before then if it's obvious nobody gives 2 craps. If people find it useful then maybe some of my teammates will jump on board with this later.
My general weekly structure is like this:
Mon: Off or active recovery
Tue: High-end (L5) intervals, 5 minute duration.
Wed: Threshold (L4) intervals
Thu: Off or active recovery
Fri: Off or active recovery
Sat: 4 hour mtb ride
Sun: 1-2 hour tempo (L3)
The first thing to note is that I have 3 days basically off. Given that I have to wake up in the realm of 4:45 to get this stuff in before work, sleep is more important than rolling 5 days a week.
Weekends are up for debate/change. Sometimes I may throw in an L5 Saturday and longer ride Sunday.
Weeks 1/2 will be one volume, weeks 3/4 will be an increase in that. Week 5 will be 50% of week 4. Week 6 will be 25% of week 4. That's a classic taper approach and the whole structure is a pretty classic training approach, but short one Thursday tempo ride.
I immediately threw this out the window this week and did an L4 workout Monday. 2 sets of 20 minutes with a 5 minute rest in between, usually noted as 2x20:5. Tuesday I did the L5 stuff, 4x5:5 which was harder because I didn't do it off a rest day. But I felt good enough to give it a go anyway. Today I did a repeat of Monday, 2x20:5. So the last 3 days have been L4/L5/L4. My legs are pretty tired right now.
Today's entry in my actual blog is an bit of a goofy view on it all. No worries it's not remotely serious: Biking Lent.
I won't link to that every day, just when I post something entertaining. Anyway, I hope someone, somewhere, finds this useful.