Am I training right for a 3 stages MTB race?

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Hi,

If anyone can advise, I have a MTB stages race , 3 stages (70km 2k+, 70km 2k+, 40km 1k+) . For this my common sense said to do kind of tempo ride on Saturday and Long ride on Sunday. With TR I have scheduled something like this for weekends: 45min SS on Saturday and 1h15 endurance on Sunday.

I feel I’m going to be something like unprepared. It’s my first stage race, but I’ve completed gran fondos and long rides of 180km on roadbike but this makes me untrust the préparation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Last Year Training Volume: 8-12h / week

I also been training during week (2 - 3 times + Sat and Sunday) somethin like:

Tuesday: VO2 or SS as per TR schedules. Wednesday: Active Rec/Nothing. Thursday: SS/TH as per TR schedules.

I’ve been fluctuatin bt 3.0 and 3.4 W/Kg

Thanks

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It’s hard to know what to suggest without knowing your training history, but try to get in some longer rides and back to back interval days to help prepare for the demands of a multi day race.

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If that is all you are doing then likely not.

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Thanks mate. A summary, last year I was training 8 to 12h per week. I’ve been riding and training since 2018 consistently.

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:smiling_face_with_tear:

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It’s a bit difficult to give any advice when you give so little details of your previous and current training.

I’m guessing you also ride during the week. How much? You also seem to be riding considerably less than last year. Why? If this volume is based on TR recommendations, have you done less for the last months leading the AI to believe that you can’t do as much as you have been doing previously? Or are the cap on the training volume set by you?

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You are right. I updated the post with that info. Hope helps.

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It sounds like you have good fitness. I suppose you have two options, create your own plan or trust TR

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Let me be the odd one - define “MTB”… :slight_smile: because it is nowadays a very wide discipline.

If your 3-day stage race is anything like W2W we have down here, fitness is great, but some single-track skills are critical. And I don’t see any of that in there.