I recently moved from Japan to Austria and we are still waiting for 9 boxes we sent by mail. One of them contains my Elite Suito, so until that arrives I will need to train outdoors. Unfortunately, the region I live in does not have long climbs or long, uninterrupted sections, so I don’t think I will be able to (safely do) long intervals. The hilly roads are safer, but they go up and down (doh), which makes it a bit hard to stay on power when I am going downhill.
Originally, I was thinking of doing a polarized block as in previous years, but replacing the threshold/VO2max workouts with something suitable. Do you have any ideas and input? What gains would I see if I replaced the longer, sustained threshold workouts with shorter ones? Should I opt for VO2max intervals instead?