Hey guys, I would like to know how to integrate my training camp in Tucson Arizona thats happening from march 20 to the 28th of this year. We are 5 guys, most of us at the same fitness level who will be doing 4 to 6 hours a day of zone2-3 (endurance + sweetspot). We have been in Virginia the last 2 years to do our camp (We are from Montreal the weather is cold here in march) and race season starts mid-april. I am in the build phase right now and peak phase starts during my camp. I won’t be aiming for schedule workouts but there to do some volume. How do i my plan few days prior to the trip, during the camp and also on my way back since i am in specialty phase with my A event on april 12th. (first of the year). Here is a capture of my training plan:
If it was me I would just keep the plan leading up to the training camp as is. If you’re feeling fatigued you can do an easy ride on the Saturday to start your recovery week early. Then do your camp and replace your Tuesday Anaerobic when you get back with an easy ride.
4-6 hour endurance + sweet spot sounds moderate to me. But once you categorize it and assign the time it will give you a TSS estimate so you can go back and edit appropriately if you have similar reference rides.
I’d play around with having it in the plan as a B race as well.
Or go the whole hog and set the camp up as an A race, and have two separate plans, one leading up to and culminating with the camp, and another running from the week after the camp to the “real" A race.
Hopefully it’ll taper you in to the camp and give you an easier week after it.
Remember that you may need to set up a plan with a start date in the past if you want to have a build phase between now and the camp rather than a base phase.
If the camp starts the 20 you already have almost a week to deload. If you feel the need to have a full week you ride easy on the 14 as well.
You can always enter the camp as a C-race, but the only thing that it does is deleting the overlapping workouts. Playing around with the rating (easy, medium or hard) also doesn’t really matter. Since your A-race is already in April, you can’t have the camp as an A-race if you want to keep your current A-race.
here’s what I did. I added the camp as a C race day to day and deleted the workouts on those same days. What’s weird is that the system bugged and created a new base phase as of today and there are 2 plans side to side now. One that is my current that’s been running since Jan 4th with all my events and the new base phase that started today when I’m actually in the build phase since yesterday (first vo2 workout)
there seems to be a bug and now I’m scared to delete the fake plan that started today ?
I would try to delete the new plan and maybe also the C-races you put in and se if it reverts back to how it was.
If you’re going to delete the workouts manually yourself anyways there is no reason to add C-races. To be clear, you don’t have to do anything with your plan for the period you are away. Just do your thing and when you get back your plan will adapt based on the work you have been doing.
But have you got any extra workouts? I believe anytime you add races to your plan it is re-calculated and when it is re-calculated TR sets the start date to the day you re-calculated. Don’t ask me why, but as long as your plan looks the same as it did it doesn’t matter.
It does re-calculate, but since TR doesn’t change anything in your plan before or after C-races it spits out the same plan.
The most obvious answer to what you should do afterwards is train easy until you feel sufficiently recovered. If you’re riding on the 28 as well, I would probably skip the Tuesday and Thursday hard workouts and do 90 minute easy instead. If you feel the workout on the 7 comes just a bit too early you can always push it to the 8. Personally I would prioritize the VO2Max workout over the endurance workout the weekend after your camp.
