a few of us are doing twice a month 10 mi TTs on a favorite course
Not a million miles away from how the sport started!
LT1 = Zone 2 (or close enough). Just getting the legs going with some pressure. Not too easy, definitely not too hard.
Sounds similar to my standard easy rides average 66% MHR on road bike (no power) or ~65% FTP on TT bike.
6 x 5 min at 2:1 work rest and 113% is a very stout workout. If you recover well from that and it pushes your power up, then maybe for a few weeks. But toward the last 3-4 weeks of the race set, I would just focus on lowering fatigue and racing well.
Agreed. I don’t think I’d want to do, or be able to stomach, an extended period of that kind of workout. It’s 0.96 for an hour…
Ending with that double whammy 10 then 25 back to back is pretty evil planning!! Evil in a good way. Some folks do extremely well with back to back events. The first race can act as a mega-opener for the second. I’d come into that weekend well rested and ready to go. Smash that final 25 and feel great.
I’ve raced on back to back days before. Sometimes the second day feels good, other days it doesn’t. I definitely prefer doing 10/25 rather than 25/10 though! They’re the final two races though so I guess motivation will be high. I did a solo 25 a few weeks ago and that was 54 minutes of “why am I doing this!?”
Probably would set up a training block culminating in the August 23rd 25 mi race. Basically, train up to the August 23 race. Hit that weekly VO2 type workout and keep lengthening the threshold or high SST workout.
So something like the Hickson intervals or maybe Spanish Needle-esque stuff progression and 2x20 threshold, build up to an hour at sweetspot?
Come through the 23rd then into early September with once a week hard, once a week steady, once a week race and you’ll stay sharp but start dropping fatigue from the legs.
What would ‘hard’ and ‘steady’ look like during this sort of peak maintenance phase?
The end of your schedule is 4 races in 16 days. Two tens and two 25s. If you get the race - recovery correct for the last say 20 days, you can smash them.
Yeah, this will just be about survival!
I’ve been playing around with tapering and openers. It’s an art!