Hi I’m new on here. Been listening to the podcasts for a while. not sure if I should put this under training or racing but since it’s regarding ftp I put it in training. So I started cycling a little over two years ago and this will be my first real racing season. did not have the best base and b…

Not a MTB’er, but I found last year that during periods of lots of crit racing and time trials I definitely LOST fitness. A lot of (more motivated) athletes will do their crit warmup, do the race, and then go for more intervals or a longer endurance ride afterwards to keep their training stress high…

Hmm not the answer I was hoping for but thank you anyways. Don’t think I can possibly do intervals after an xc race and hit the watts I normaly would. I get 3 hours on the bike at raceday since Ive never been to any of the tracks I like to do 4 or 5 recon laps… then later a warm up, race and a 30-45…

Yeah - I think it probably applies more to road than MTB! Road crits can be as short as 30 minutes so not a huge amount of TSS but loads of intensity. That’s why we would add endurance miles after, not high intensity stuff…

13 weeks is a lot IMO. And I’ve been there. It takes a toll. My race craft was so much better at the end of summer and I was relying on my smarts than say growing my ftp. I battled an illness for most of the summer, so I never really got to peak. I’m not saying you shouldn’t race every week, but ou…

[image] RedBullKTM84: So now we will be racing for many weeks to come and I wonder if I can expect my FTP to increase from doing these 60-80 minute races. I raced XCO Cat 2 last year (11 races to include a MTB 100). I trained through my races and I gained fitness/FTP all season. I went from …

Historically my FTP is highest in the spring and drops slightly through the racing season that is full of weekend crits. Many weekends have me doing 3 races (doubling up in masters age categories). I’m at about the point in my season now where my training plan goes out the door and my weekly trainin…

For what it’s worth my ftp went up after crit specialty and almost weekly crits after going down a bit between mid-build and the beginning of specialty. But honestly, these short term gains and losses depend on so many different factors that it’s worth chilling out about them. In the end, if you l…

[image] miesemer: EDIT: I failed to notice you are doing XC MTB on the first read. I’m guessing the requirements of that probably have you racing at near threshold the entire time That s actually not the case, XCO is mostly very high or low, but not much time in sweet spot/threshold. …

Why are many so fixated on FTP? That is one aspect of fitness and racing. Your FTP may remain the same but your ability to repeat efforts, increase the level of effort and your ability to recover from efforts with improve. that is what wins races!

What volume plan were you doing? Mid volume?

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That s actually not the case, XCO is mostly very high or low, but not much time in sweet spot/threshold.

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