A totally new plan!
So I enacted a new and exciting training plan in the last few days in preparation for the Verge race this weekend. Here it is!
Last Thursday: Ride for one hour.
Friday: Don’t ride.
Saturday: Don’t ride.
Sunday: Don’t ride.
Monday: Ride the rollers for one hour.
Tuesday: Don’t ride.
Wednesday: Don’t ride.
Thursday: Don’t ride.
Friday: Maybe ride. To a coffee shop.
Saturday: Do a UCI race!
My plan is flawless and perfect. Also, pepper in “eating a lot” into my daily routine.
I’m happy to see that me being a Cat4 Cross racer have already adopted the poperway to train for races like the Cat 1s do. Thanks for confirming that I’m on the right path!
That’s the exact same plan I’ve followed…except I didn’t ride on Monday.
I call it the “Save It For The Race” training plan.
bob, you fail to mention the consumption of PBR that your training plan also requires.
Remember kids: there’s no such thing as being too fresh!
(The definition of “fresh” has been left as an exercise for the reader.)
You mean that every time I’ve chugged a can of PBR…I was actually “training”?
Cool.
‘Scuse me while I go pop open a can of “workout”.
dude, get on my plan. its called don’t ride, and then don’t race.
eat donuts (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and second dinner), drink beer (only breakfast, because drinking after 9am is for alcoholics).
so far, somehow, defying logic, i’ve lost 2kg’s (this is a bike racing blog in some form) since the monday following Northampton (when I got on this new “training” plan). It’s probably the tiny amount of muscle I once had atrophying away, actually. Anyways, I think the Ullrich inspired winter training plan is pretty bulletproof, and I might start a coaching website/company and start charging people for my advice…
Good luck this weekend, wish I was there to heckle, if nothing else.
Bob T, you are my fucking idol.
Sounds like my plan for the entire road season last year.