Can any of your training plans be used on single speed endurance bikes with power meters?
Done a lot of single speed riding for commuting, never had a power meter on that bike but have tried doing TR workouts using RPE and HR. Challenge is suitable terrain to allow you to hit the right kind of efforts without having gears. I.e. maintaining Sweetspot/Threshold level intensity can be pretty hard on even fairly gentle declines and conversely it’s very hard to stick to recovery watts when the road points up and you don’t have any granny gears. So you either need really flat routes or to align gradients well with intervals. I.e. gently rolling hills where you can do your intervals on the ascents and your recoveries on the descents.
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If you have a smart trainer with erg mode, then yea. If not, it’s not really gonna work. Probably better off riding and letting the terrain naturally dictate your intervals…which is what SS is all about anyways.
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Even riding in a flat area trying to maintain a set power with 11 speed is tough, I can’t imagine it being possible on a single speed.
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What ss endurance bike u have? I’m in the market…commuter / off roader
Bringing this back from the dead.
I am interested in riding single speed XC (XCO-length… 45-75 minutes) next year and I’m getting ready to start my offseason training.
What plan do y’all think would be the most appropriate plan? Stick with XCO or something different?
I don’t have the science to back this up, but I for my gravel single speed season I followed a low volume plan and added a long single speed gravel ride on my other weekend day.
So I would try following an xco plan and adding in a day on your single speed in similar terrain to what you are going to race on.
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Co-sign this + maybe a greater focus on lifting weights in the off-season to help with those high torque situations. I’m getting ready for singlespeed cyclocross and already feel like the extra strength training has been worth it. And all I’m doing are Bulgarian split squats, dead lifts and calf raises, nothing crazy.
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