CX speciality plan, I don’t think that it

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Hello everyone,

Is anybody following the CX training plan? Can you tell me how it’s going or went for you.

First season using TR, I’m on specialty phase now with my A race next week and so far, I don’t think this is it.

I had no problem with Base and Build but Specialty with three and a half months of just Anaerobic and Vo2 workouts , I know I’m losing out on the sustain power.

I’m starting to wonder if it would be better to replace one of the Vo2 workouts with Sweetspot.

I also find that the system doesn’t recognize races, and example I’ve had a Anaerobic workout on Tuesday, trigger a yellow day for Wednesday same day as a training race, then Thursday no yellow or red day and Vo2 workout scheduled. Me like a drone did the workout but it was harder than it should’ve been and after the workout just felt like I over reached.

I also got the AI so confused that it wanted to drop my FTP. I did a 20 minute FTP test to give the AI data because I knew it was wrong. During that time I had not been missing any workouts and had to hold back on my zone 2 rides.

We all know how the AI only gives you and FTP increases of a watt or two per month so when it wants to drop you by 10 watts in one go when you been putting in the work, thats a big deal.

I don’t know. Been on the plan since March, if I had to guess maybe 87-90% workout completion rate and so far getting my butt kicked in these CX races.

Getting 41 out of 51 and lapped in a race makes me think that I could have been watching TV instead of doing a hard ass Anaerobic workout, :weary_face: I hate those things.

Don’t know on this one.

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I find the base and build plans very good for CX. I prefer to develop my own specialty plan, especially during a block of racing. Ideally, one VO2 Max. and one sweet spot or threshold workout would work well. However, with a week that includes a CX team practice on Tues. and a race on Sunday, you need to make modifications to the plan. Also, when do you include much needed endurance rides? Maybe a mid-week 1.5-2 hr. zone two ride would be beneficial. I ride one of my CX bikes as much as I can. Specificity!

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So on Sundays I was doing my longer Endurance rides. With the race season in play I haven’t been able to get those rides in.

Thinking about it on those week it may be better to swap out one of those workouts for the Endurance ride. I mean with one workout and race on the weekend, you’ll already be doing two hard efforts for the week.

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