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Training Question: Pre-base Training
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I got back on the bike this year after a 12-year lay-off. Without much of a mileage base or structured preparation of any kind, I've performed OK in competition. I've decide to quit racing for the remainder of the season and start thinking about next year. Popular wisdom suggests that I should beging building my base in November (for a May-September season). How would readers suggest I use my time between now and then? Dope Control |
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Training Question: Pre-base Training
Jeremy Collins writes:
Finally, are you sure about not entering any events? Keeping yourself motivated to train between now and next March with no external events to spur you on will be tough. What we did with rowing was use that time of the year for less serious races: odd distances, odd teams, races that involve crosstraining (running and cycling in our case), races in heavy boats, things like that. The idea is to give yourself a break from monotonous serious raining while still being active. So how about some mountain biking? A tandem tour? A duathlon? Roos |
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Training Question: Pre-base Training
Roos Eisma wrote:
The idea is to give yourself a break from monotonous serious raining while still being active. A move down sarf would fix that ;-) -- Tony "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" Anon |
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Training Question: Pre-base Training
Tony Raven wrote: Roos Eisma wrote: The idea is to give yourself a break from monotonous serious raining while still being active. A move down sarf would fix that ;-) Not to Cambridge, it is drier in Dundee than almost anywhere else in teh UK (bar lincolnshire) ...d |
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Training Question: Pre-base Training
David Martin wrote:
Tony Raven wrote: Roos Eisma wrote: The idea is to give yourself a break from monotonous serious raining while still being active. A move down sarf would fix that ;-) Not to Cambridge, it is drier in Dundee than almost anywhere else in teh UK (bar lincolnshire) Are you sure about that? http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/...2000/rr/17.gif http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/...cambridge.html http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/.../leuchars.html -- Tony "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" Anon |
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Training Question: Pre-base Training
Thanks jc,
I use an HRM, and have a well-structured approach to my training that has unfortunately come too late for this season. I didn't get serious until around March and I've been mixing up lactate sessions on the trainer with long and short rides of varied intensity on the road, totalling about 10 hours a week. My rationale for curtailing my season now is that after such a long lay-off, if I want to have a really good crack at next season, and following a racing program for the rest of this season may not be the best approach. You make a good point about motivation - looking to peak 7 months form now is a little unsettling. I guess what I'm asking is, what would others do with this 'luxury'? DC |
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Training Question: Pre-base Training
in message .com,
') wrote: I got back on the bike this year after a 12-year lay-off. Without much of a mileage base or structured preparation of any kind, I've performed OK in competition. I've decide to quit racing for the remainder of the season and start thinking about next year. Popular wisdom suggests that I should beging building my base in November (for a May-September season). How would readers suggest I use my time between now and then? Get out on your bike and enjoy yourself. Do some other kind of cycling you wouldn't normally think of (mountain biking, audax, whatever). Have /fun/. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ [ This .sig intentionally left blank ] |
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Training Question: Pre-base Training
Simon Brooke wrote:
Get out on your bike and enjoy yourself. Do some other kind of cycling you wouldn't normally think of (mountain biking, audax, whatever). Have /fun/. What Simon says. Don't worry about doing "training" until November. Just ride your bike and do other stuff if you want (walking, running, weights, whatever). Arthur -- Arthur Clune PGP/GPG Key: http://www.clune.org/pubkey.txt The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting - Milan Kundera |
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