Hi, I have used plan builder up to my event in March. It is a 235km, 4000m climbing road race. The event is made up by 3 substantial climbs 1-1.5hrs in duration. I have done a few years of the mid and high volume TR base, build plans. Plan builder has me doing climbing road race HV for this final…

For that duration and with those lengthy climbs I think century plan might be better. Climbing road race I think is more targeted at races where there’s plenty of climbing but there’s still also bunch racing and tactics to deal with so you need some above threshold capabilities. For your event I’d t…

[image] Climbing RR or GF plan ? exploding_head Training I had great success with a similar sounding race this last summer using climbing Road Race specialty. I live in Florida so the only thing I wish I did was more low cadence work on the sweet spot intervals and extendi…

[image] Gary_Gumnut: Has anyone experience with the century and climbing road race speciality phases? Well first of all there isn’t enough difference between those two programs that it’s really going to make a material difference in your ultimate adaptation (if you follow the plans). But it …

Thanks for the input. I think this may be where plan builder falls short for me. Inputing the race duration as 9hrs+ into plan builder and then only scheduling ~8hrs weekly volume in a HV speciality plan. I think I will pick a few of the rides from each plan to increase the weekly TSS and volume fo…

Sounds like your event could be Peaks Challenge to me. If so, also look at Dr Stephen Lanes plans provided with registration. Although a TR user, I used them when doing Peaks, as I had more confidence in their specific design for the event.

I did peaks a few years ago when it was freezing cold and raining. Using 80% TR plans, supplementing in 150km weekend rides. I did ok given the conditions. The TR plans seem easier this time around. I have looked over the S Lane programs and also would trust them more, but they are a bit more focu…

The big miles days combo with TR is a good idea and obviously worked well for you. In which case, I would probably use Climbing Road Race as I expect the workouts would be at a higher % of FTP and i certainly needed to do that to hold the group I chose to try and hold for the race (Group 9) . Not h…

Climbing road race vs century

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ChefAcB January 4, 2022, 1:04pm 3

I commented yesterday on something similar

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