When to deviate from Base, Build, Specialty?

[mcneese.chad]

Check out the new Plan Builder tool:

Introducing Plan Builder!

You now have the ability to build a custom plan leading up to your goal event with Plan Builder. This has been added to Early Access and is ready for beta testing! Why Plan Builder? Cyclists rarely have a single event they are working towards, and the amount of time to their goal event varies widely from person to person. Training plans exist for just about every cycling discipline, but only account for the ideal scenario in which a single goal event is targeted in the future. Until now, pl…

You can choose a “I don’t have events” option that looks to work on overall fitness, with a focus that you dictated in the options. This is suggested rather than a simple repeat of the SSBLV2, for the main reason that doing the same work over and over will potentially lead to a plateau.

Repeating Base is a good idea, but I would do 1-2-1-2 pattern at least. And the old recommendation was to do Base, Build and repeat that pattern (with both SSB1 & 2).

The new recommendations captured in the Plan Builder are a bit different, but well worth your time to use and review.