Hi all, Will keep this one short and to the point. Should I push my training schedule back by a week to complete the festive 500 this year? I don’t have any specific events in the calendar yet, and currently just working my way through SSB2 LV. I do plan to do a couple races when the season starts…

I’d treat it as more base, admittedly the old school sort, but if you’re in base already at the moment I don’t see the harm as long as you can temper your enthusiasm and keep to z2. You’ve got loads of time to make up any “loss”, and the extra endurance will help when you get to build. More import…

Why not as it is a fun thing and goal to hit over the holiday. Pretty easy also indoor. Outdoor well that is definitely tougher.

If you’ve got free time then I would probably do as much Z2 as you can as long as you don’t go too overboard. More volume is rarely a bad thing if it’s kept under control. If you feel tired coming out of it then maybe take an additional day or two to recover and then get back into your plan.

[image] nick12: I’m worried it will set back my fitness or lower my FTP (as it’s unstructured). Doubtful If you want to do it, go for it. Riding unstructured is called having fun. Yes, racing when fit and doing well is also fun. Seeing your FTP go up as a result of doing the work is also fun…

You won’t drop any fitness from taking part in the festive 500. If you want to do it, then go for it as it’s clearly a motivation for a lot of people to ride their bikes and that can only be a good thing.

500km of Z2 riding isn’t going to derail your plan from a fitness perspective, if anything it will be the opposite and give you a nice bump. Think the things to be cautious about would be whether ramping up that much from a LV plan to 15+ hours of riding is going to cause problems like saddle sores…

[image] nick12: as it’s unstructured If you’re worried about this then give it some structure! Structure doesn’t just mean that you’re doing X Watts for 10 min and then recover for 3 min. It just means that your workouts are planned out and fit into a thought out training plan. So if you g…

Do trainer road rides count? I know they said Zwift rides count this year, but trying to figure out if all uploaded trainer rides count.

According to the below, then yes they do: [image] Rapha Festive 500 (2020) Training hmm strange as I got this from Rapha (using the chat) [Screenshot 2020-12-15 at 14.41.11] I was thinking of doing tones of z2 / tempo work on the trainer to build base miles before train…

[image] nick12: I’m thinking the 500 can be a good form of endurance training if I keep it within Z2, but I’m worried it will set back my fitness or lower my FTP (as it’s unstructured). Riding as much z2 as you can handle is structured.

Should I do the Festive 500

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Dave December 16, 2020, 2:44pm 10

According to the below, then yes they do:

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Should I do the Festive 500

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