Climbing road race training plan

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Hello everyone,

I have a climbing road race coming up in September. The duration will probably be around 3.5 - 4 hours, depending on my fitness level at that time.

I use the Plan Builder, and it prescribes me weekend endurance ride 1.5 hours at most. However, the Climbing Road Race plan contains a 2-hour weekend endurance ride in addition to 4 weekday workouts.

Which one should I use? I think the Plan Builder volume is too low even I already toggle the Training Approach to Aggressive. Want to hear your opinions. Thanks in advance!

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There are many similar threads on here, with contributions from TR staffers.

The answer is that

  1. You can change any of the rides to a different one at will. If you want to do a longer ride at the weekend, go ahead.

  2. The volume is adaptive based on your recent training history and how you handle the workouts. The ride you see for two Tuesdays ahead is probably not the ride you will be served on the day.

  3. You have a chance to tell the TR plan builder how long you have available on each day and what type of ride you want to do on that day. It will be able to serve longer rides if you tell it you have more time. This is connected to, but different to, moving the training approach slider

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@ivegotabike is right.

There are pretty much endless amounts of ways to customize your training plan with Plan Builder.

There are virtually no upsides to sticking a generic template, such as the Climbing Road Race plan, into your calendar, in my opinion.

I’d recommend running through Plan Builder and specifying how many days a week you’d like to train, how many of those days should be hard, and how long you’d like all of your workouts to be for each day of the week. We’ll then prescribe workouts of that duration as long as your Progression Levels approve it.

Your plan is in your hands. We’ll make recommendations and provide warnings if we feel that what you’re doing is likely too much, or too soon, but ultimately, you have the ability to build the plan that you want and to follow it. :raising_hands: :sparkles:

Let me know if you have any questions along the way!

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