So, a question to all the riders with more experience!
I live in the middle of the alps, every ride is about an ascend of 700 to 1400 Meters altitude.
How should i Set up the Plan bilder?
Is that a trick question? You can do all the Trainerroad workouts on your home trainer, without worrying about elevation⌠
The terrain around you has nothing to do with plan builder - plan builder puts base, build and speciality blocks together, depending on you goal event. It doesnât pick specific workouts based on your terrain.
There are a few threads on here with ideas of how to train in the mountains and how to find suitable terrain.
Nođ i think thats my Bad englishđ
I read some older threads and now im Not Sure if my training Plan (via planbuilder) is right for me.
What is your goal? Do you have an event in mind?
I dont have any races or something Like that.
I read in another threads, that someone is choosing TT speciality Over climbing speciality because it would suit better for real mountain ridingâŚ
So im Not Sure whats the BestâŚi am surrounded by mountains, i live on a mountain, we ride always mountains. Real mountains!
Thanks for all the answersđ
With climbs like that, you are talking about sustained power.
So Sweet Spot Base and then Sustained Power Build is a logical progression. The question is then which Specialty plan.
While Climbing Road Race has climbing in its name, it is really targetted at racing, where you climb just below threshold AND have to initiate/respond to efforts off the front, with above threshold efforts. The TT specialty is really about holding a maximal steady effort around threshold, but you will probably be pretty spent at the end of that effort - if you have to do a single climb of that length, and then just descend back to the start, this would be ideal. The Century specialty is about holding and repeating efforts just below threshold - if you do a 700m climb and then descend to the next valley, then have to turn around and do a similar climb and descent to get back, this would be a better fit.
There is not really that much difference between these plans in reality, but there is some. My guess is that if you are a recreational rider rather than a racer, Century specialty is a better fit for how you are likely to ride that terrain. Set your target event in Plan Builder as a Gran Fondo to get the SSB> SPB> Century progression.
Thanks a lot.
Thats the answer im looking for!