I’m currently in week 4 of SSB MV 1 and while I’ve left the rides scheduled on their default days, I’ve decided to rearrange the days for SSB MV 2 to better match my schedule as I work weekends.
My plan is:
Tuesday → 90 min Saturday Ride
Wednesday → 60 min Easy Ride
Thursday → 120min Sunday Ride
Friday → Optional Easy Ride (Looking at Baxter -2/Carter)
Saturday → 60 min Tuesday Ride
Sunday → 60min Thursday Ride
My concern is the VO2max workout and threshold workout on consecutive days. I feel that it shouldn’t be an issue since it used to be a threshold followed by a sweet-spot, but even with their lesser duration is this going to negatively affect the quality of the second day?
Should I swap Wednesday and Thursday and then move the VO2 to Friday and leave the Threshold on Sunday?
I feel like I’m overthinking it, but being new to indoor training I’m not quite sure what to do.
So whatever you chose, I would try to mimic that layout and not put back to back difficult days without a rest/easy day in between. Listen to your body and if you’re overly fatigued than you know your schedule is not working.
I guess your second day performance depends on your level of fitness, amongst other things.
When I was doing Cross Specialty I swapped the Wed and Thurs workouts so I was doing the difficult workouts back to back on Tue/Wed to better simulate the back to back cross races we have on weekends. As I recall, it did make the second day harder, but the workouts were still doable. Tough, but doable.