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J0nathan in reply to @cjr

That's useful.

If you don’t have another race on the horizon, we’d still recommend
using any of the training phases, Base, Build, or Specialty to focus
on a different aspect of your riding.

I think I might do the two sweet spot base, then the general build before the rolling road specialty. Then when that's done go back to the sweet spot base again and do short power build before crit specialty, or something like that. I suppose that, as you have an FTP test at the start of each of the blocks, and the subsequent sessions are based on that, you're pretty guaranteed to be doing progressive work.

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cjr in reply to @J0nathan

Yeah, that sounds right. I listen to the podcast quite a bit and the general thing is that training load/intensity increases over the plan, along with built in rest weeks and re-testing of ftp etc. It's this steady increase that promotes adaptation.

And yes, 'going back to base' is not a bad thing as you are probably doing it with a higher ftp.

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