Special Snowflake Question: Building a build. I have lost fitness, notably, base fitness is fairly poor. To overcome this, my intention is to complete at least 1x 4 hour LSD ride and 1x sweet spot session per week throughout the season (except specialty). More sweet spot in base of course. As an i…

You’re not special, sorry :confused:. I would do none of that and instead do SSB 1 & 2, probably low volume if you want to maintain your gym training. Substitute a race for one of your workout days. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel here, trust the TR plans and process. You’re likely to be disa…

I was going to type something similar :slightly_smiling_face: TR is designed to take you from wherever you are now. Not then now, or pre now, but now now. :smile:

I am completing SSB 1 and 2 at present. Gym is a must for PT following being hit by a car. I don’t think repeating SSB with promote consistency which is the most important part of training. I will get bored of sweet spot day in/day out. Perhaps I should rephrase the question: in general build, you…

With your new provided information, I would follow GB as perscribed and simply substitute your Tuesday Crit race for the TR Tuesday workout. Everything else in the training should remain the same. What volume of plan are you on and what will you be on for Build?

Mid Volume during the week, High volume for the weekend. Thursdays and Fridays are being dropped for PT. General or Sustained - undecided on this point

I think you’re playing around with the plans too much. I’ve never seen it ever recommended to do mid during the week and high during the weekend. That’s not how the plans, TSS and ramp rate are intended. There is structure and reason to the plans with progression and stress. High and mid volumes hav…

I’ve been thinking of a 2 year approach too. If you are going to be racing you might want to follow a speciality phase and sub out some rides for easier ssb With your proposal I think there could be issues trying to do base/buildy stuff while racing. Unless you are a baller and your races will be …

Certainly not a baller. That’s a fair observation - I suspect I will follow speciality to the letter. :slight_smile:

The plans may be good for most people, but some of us need to make adjustments. As an OMIL (like MAMIL but older), I find that the progression of the plans is sometimes too fast with too little recovery. For example, in SS Base 2 mid, the jump from 2-minute VO2Max intervals in Mills (week 4) to 3-mi…

Perhaps you need to schedule more taper/recoverweeks in before proceeding to the next week of a plan. That might help your body get adjusted to the new workload. @mcneese.chad I tried looking for your topic on adding taper/recover weeks, but I wasn’t able to find it in the search. Do you have the…

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