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My first comment would be not to take it all too seriously and getting too sciencey. If you're going on a mates trip with Benj and co there's no point ruining your life (aka cutting beer) for it. You're a strong and fit rider. You just need to adapt that to the unique demands of riding uphill for a long time.
Will get back to you with some better comments when i have a bit more time
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Um, it's all v personal but my thoughts would be as follows:
- if I'm reading this correctly you have a 15 week Base and 12 week Build back to back. Whilst that looks great on paper in terms of endurance, are you confident even with easier weeks, you can sustain this both physically and mentally? I would be burning out with the constant upward training stress. Maybe take a week between Base and Build, or mid-Build and go do a cobbled classic or something? You won't lose much in a week if you do a few intensity sessions.
- I think 5TSS ramp a week is pretty doable if you've trained before, but you might want to knock your rest weeks down even a bit further? I.e. Just commuting? Depends how much load you think you can tolerate.
- commutes are a difficult one. They are all stress but is it really training stress? I don't buy this "junk miles" thing but at the same time if it's lots of low intensity, stop-start stuff then I don't know if I'd include the full 300, but happy to be enlightened otherwise.
- if I'm reading this correctly you have a 15 week Base and 12 week Build back to back. Whilst that looks great on paper in terms of endurance, are you confident even with easier weeks, you can sustain this both physically and mentally? I would be burning out with the constant upward training stress. Maybe take a week between Base and Build, or mid-Build and go do a cobbled classic or something? You won't lose much in a week if you do a few intensity sessions.
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I've agreed to go on a mamil friendly mountain trip in June next year. It's six days based on the Raid Pyrenees North to South, so quite bumpy and I'm looking for some help and advice (basically I want to win at mountains and need some free coaching).
So, attached is a first draft of a training plan based on TSS and a ramp rate that shouldn't see me injure myself (something for which I have history). I've never had a CTL over 88 in my life, so have aimed to have it around 90 just before the trip happens.
My weekly TSS includes commuting miles which I've measured with a PM and averaged out over a week. It's a not insignificant 300 TSS a week. Is this right to include? If not I worry that I'll struggle to find the time to do the 700+ weeks on top of commuting miles.
My plan is to also drop 4kg over the next seven months to hit 66kg. I'll be honest here and say I don't know how realistic this is as I've never been much below 69kg. However I've also never really tried to cut back on bad foods and I've never given up alcohol, both of which I am doing for this.
The next step will be composition, but for now I'm after advice on whether this looks too conservative/ambitious in terms of ramp rate etc and also thoughts on the use of commuting to hit TSS targets.
Cheers all.
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