variety in training

Variety is the spice of life and also the basis of a good training program. Do the same training every day and you’ll soon plateau. Focus on one style of riding and you’ll become… good at one style of riding. Ride too hard, too often and you'll burn out. Ride too easy, too little and you'll never get anywhere.....

The last three days I’ve done some intense hillclimbing including intervals and some intensive TT work on the rollers.

Today I wanted to do some medium intensity work. Focus on pedaling. Keeping good form on the bike. About 2 hours. On the flat. Just hard enough to be conscious of making the effort. 130 target HR. 90 target cadence.

I’ve got 3 races on the horizon now, spread out by two week intervals:

June 13 Tsugaike Hill climb
June 27 Uchinada Team TT / Road Race
July 9, 10 Gunma CSC road race

I’m feeling good on the bike and want to try to carry this form for the next month. At the end of July we’ll visit the UK for 3 weeks. Hopefully I can use August and September to rebuild for a few autumn races too…

Thursday’s training: Teradomari return ( 80 km, 200 m climbing, 32 kmph, 88 cadence, 126 HR)