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WRT winter training. Am going to try and keep up a decent number of sessions per week. Although the motivation to do stuff when finish a long work day and it's dark is not really there.
I tend to work out what number of days i can fit in a proper session and what days i will need to stay in the office later and then arrange sessions around that. General plan is for 1 long ride at weekend (or two if i am really bored), 1 weights/core/body weights (pressups,situps etc) session, 1 turbo session, 1 regents park intervals session and hopefully one cross-training session possibly running or swimming just to mix it up.
And the commuting 4 days a week will continue to be as fast as i can go unless it snows.
I don't think training should be changed particularly in volume towards the beginning of the season...although perhaps the type of sessions should change. When leading up to a rowing competition our coach had us doing shorter sessions but with more intense brief efforts. And in fact the sessions then got easier and shorter in the last week before anything so we were chomping at the bit to get some serious speed in the actual race!