I finished my A event earlier this week, a 110 mile solo ride with 14,500 ft of climbing. There were 5 major climbs varying from about 50 minutes to 2 hours 15 minutes long. I did the Climbing Road Race Plan on the advice of TrainerRoad support, which had me doing A LOT of VO2 max work in the spec…

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How did the ride go and did you increase any areas of fitness leading into it? I think that you not getting into Vo2 during the ride makes a lot of sense - it’s was a long event and you had to pace yourself. Could you have been better served by having Gran Fondo or even 40k TT as you specialty phas…

” Would I have been better off doing longer Sweet Spot and Threshold workouts?”. The basics of endurance training have not really changed during the decades. The base is built doing a lot of easy work and then tweaked doing some harder efforts.

[image] UWDawgs: wonder why I spent so much time doing workouts I hated. “The workouts you hate are generally the ones you need to do” - All Coaches You need a variety of stimulus to optimise physical adaptations. Some hard work, some steady and some easy. [image] UWDawgs: was targeti…

[image] UWDawgs: Looking at my power data after the ride I spent a grand total of 2 seconds at VO2 max Yeah but how were those 2 seconds? I bet they weren’t as bad as they would’ve been :thinking:.

[image] UWDawgs: a 110 mile solo ride with 14,500 ft of climbing. There were 5 major climbs varying from about 50 minutes to 2 hours 15 minutes long. I did the Climbing Road Race Plan on the advice of TrainerRoad support, Would I have been better off doing longer Sweet Spot and Threshold worko…

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Only doing one type of training for an entire season or build up Luke likely lead to a plateau. I think you can have an area of focus (like long sweet spot or threshold efforts for those long climbs) but riding and working on all zones probably more ideal. But periodization of training is key. Want…

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Was all my VO2 max work a waste of time?

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The_Cog July 30, 2023, 12:10am 2

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Was all my VO2 max work a waste of time?

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