4-6 weeks till CX – What are you doing?

[anthonylane]

@millerclimb

The years when I come in super fit having done lots of short intervals (similar to the CX speciality phase) in August, I tend to loose stem mid-October. This year, I am going to hold off on tabata style (30:30s, 20:10s, etc, etc) efforts until the middle of september, then build to mid-October. After that, I find 2-4 weeks of base mile type work to be really beneficial to having good results in late November and early December.

Last year I didn’t do a lot of top end work prior to the start of the season and noticed that in the first few races, however, I was on the podium in 3 consecutive races, all of which were late October into November. It felt weird to not have the punch in the first part of the season, but then feel the fitness come toward the back end.