# Rolling Road Race Specialty - Anaerobic & VO2Max Workouts

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**Created:** [May 1, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/rolling-road-race-specialty-anaerobic-vo2max-workouts/102908 "2025-05-01T22:49:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pbase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/pbase/32/969_2.png) [@Pbase](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Pbase)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/rolling-road-race-specialty-anaerobic-vo2max-workouts/102908/4 "2025-05-02T11:25:49Z")

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Congratulations on your gains!

Just reiterating @AlexMartins point, turn off erg mode for your VO2/Anaerobic workouts.

> [@Hard start VO2max intervals](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/hard-start-vo2max-intervals/48175/1):
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> The goal of these workouts is to get your heart rate up quickly to ~90% of maximum early in the interval, and then maintain it for the remainder of the interval at 90%+.

Lots more discussion here:

> [@Hard start VO2max intervals](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/hard-start-vo2max-intervals/48175):
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> I’ve had a few requests to share some hard start VO2max workouts I created. I created the following team that has four workouts to start with. Edit. Now 14 workouts. [https://www.trainerroad.com/app/teams/14144-hard-start-vo2-max-intervals](https://www.trainerroad.com/app/teams/14144-hard-start-vo2-max-intervals) The workouts are a variant on the one below - with 6 x 2.5 minute, 3.0 minute , 3.5 minute and 4.0 minute VO2max intervals. Edit: I’ve also added workouts with longer intervals - 4 x 5, 5.5, and 6 min intervals. Edit: I’ve also created HS-1 versions whe…

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