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Cheers this is useful,
Currently I tend towards daily periodization - rest - hard - easy - hard - rest - long and steady - easy. The hard sessions are normally early morning 80-100km hill smash ups with the road club and the long and steady is typically 2-300 km on the weekend.
Im thinking about a power meter but theres a strong chance my fiance will notice and murder me.
Georgel
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I'm not sure you're riding enough to include much ultra specific stuff. But the cyclist's training bible is a good place to start.
Be efficient - crappy just spend more money advice coming up - buy a power meter, reasoning being is, if you are going to spend 20/30 hours on the bike a week you might as well make the most of the training.
Weekly periodisation (easy>medium>hard>recovery) and daily periodisation (recovery>hard>easy>hard>easy>hard>easy)
Consistency is key, every day grind. Avoid the 300km Saturday ride and a couple of short rides in the week. It achieves very little
I can manage one hard longer interval session a week, later in the year there would be between 40min and 60min of work at around FTP something like 5x12min with 3min rest or 2x20min with 5 min rest. The rest would be long steady cycling at 75% FTP. Sometimes I can manage 2 of those sessions in a week but I'd be running on fumes and everything else suffers. I also know that for me it is not just the case of make the easier sessions easier to let myself do more harder sessions. I'm yet to be convinced of the value of VO2 work for ultra racing, plus it ruins me and everything else suffers.