# 5 weeks until endurance mtb race

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**Category:** Training\
**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/5-weeks-until-endurance-mtb-race/21189 "2019-09-19T13:50:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![hakimaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hakimaki](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/hakimaki)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/5-weeks-until-endurance-mtb-race/21189/1 "2019-09-19T13:50:04Z")

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Due to work and family commitments, it looks as though I won’t be able to race any cyclocross in November at all. Essentially ending my cyclocross season. There is however a 6 hour endurance mountain bike race I am considering at the end of November. I would be halfway through cyclocross specialty at that point of my last cyclocross race in late October and would have 5 weeks until the endurance race. The course is a relatively flat 10 mile loop of singletrack with a few short punchy climbs that I would ideally do 6-7 times within the allotted time.

Would I be best served doing 4 weeks of a rebuild or switching over to 4 weeks of Cross-Country Marathon MTB Specialty? The 5th week would be a rest/taper week.

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**Author:** ![MI-XC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/mi-xc/32/12993_2.png) [@MI-XC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/MI-XC)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/5-weeks-until-endurance-mtb-race/21189/2 "2019-09-19T14:04:10Z")

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Did you do SSB and a full build?

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**Author:** ![hakimaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hakimaki](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/hakimaki)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/5-weeks-until-endurance-mtb-race/21189/3 "2019-09-19T14:05:37Z")

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Yes, SSB and Short Power Build completed.

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**Author:** ![MI-XC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/mi-xc/32/12993_2.png) [@MI-XC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/MI-XC)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/5-weeks-until-endurance-mtb-race/21189/4 "2019-09-19T14:07:51Z")

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I would switch over to XCM Specialty. The last 2 weeks of XCM are taper weeks leading to your A race. So , adjust the remaining 3 weeks to accommodate that. Possibly doing weeks 4-8 of XCM.

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**Author:** ![hakimaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hakimaki](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/hakimaki)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/5-weeks-until-endurance-mtb-race/21189/5 "2019-09-19T15:35:07Z")

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Thank you, I was leaning towards this and just needed some validation! But of course am open to anyone elses suggestions.