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this time of year
i think i'm struggling with the concept of this(!)
here's how my year used to go:
january: final couple of CX races with midweek cross 'sessions' in the park if i could be bothered
feb: 'ah, no racing! can have some time off the bike'
march: see above
april: 'shit, club 10s are starting!'
may: turn up to a 10 with no training and post a short 29. start doing tt-focussed sessions 2x a week, improving times, continue until...
sept: 'ah shit, cross is starting!' do a short session in the park a couple of days before the first race. die on lap 2 of first race. start doing midweek cross sessions with races on the weekends.what i really want to do is not arrive to the first race of each season completely unfit, but i'm not sure how to structure things over 12 months.
it's kond of obvious, i guess, but there's a lot of advice to wade through!
fizzy.bleach-
I think you've got a good situation there in that your summer racing is an over-threshold effort and winter is lots of over threshold efforts. So not only can they complement eachother but one builds into another.
If you care more about one than the other, use the lower priority one as training for the other. Then take your time off after the priority one.
If you are chilled about both, then I'd aim to do some race specific intervals about 2 months out from when you want to be at your fastest. If this overlaps with the start of your race season that's fine. If further out than 2 months, just try upping a bit more easy riding if you can on top.
Basically, don't try and get too scientific, with 2 peaks in 12 months for two disciplines you're can't smash both, unless you are from Benelux and have a three letter abbreviation.
onyerbike
That kind of session won't make you slower at this time of year the only thing that will make you slower is not riding your bike. Its a strength endurance session but those won't make you faster for cross or 10 mile tts as they're intense events so you need to replicate that type of intensity or harder in smaller chunks in your training in the 6-8 weeks building up to the season. The low cadence strength/torque endurance sessions are good this time of year as they don't take much out of you if your building volume. A good version of that type of session for you would be to do that but on the recoveries do those under geared at high cadence >110 rpm that makes it more specific for you if your riding sscx as you'll be grinding and spinning during that. I've got plenty of tasty sessions for cx and 10 mile tts when the time comes for those if your interested?