wednesday's meeting

Another meeting with my coach on Wednesday.

Here's what we talked about:

the build to Tokyo~Itoigawa

build 2, week 3

This week was build 2, week 3. This should be a hard week. However, after a crash on Sunday it is important to recover. This is my plan for the remainder of the week:

a specific workout

We looked more closely at 4 efforts I did on Tuesday. 4 × 8 minutes at 340 W.

The efforts looked good. The heart rate was right up there each time. The power data seems consistent to.

I imagine that the FTP value determined by 4iiii will be around this level (340 W).

longer intervals

I have been doing lots of these short intervals recently.

We agreed that I should try some longer 20 / 15 min efforts at around 95% FTP. These are beneficial for "adaptation". I tried some of these the following day.

build 2, rest week

I will do an FTP test at the end of next week (Friday May 1st).

I will run the powertap and 4iiii for comparative purposes. With this data we will make the transition from using powertap to using 4iiii for power training.

peak week 1

In the peak week I will do 1 big ride at almost race pace.

I will do tempo riding in this week (no intervals).

fuji speedway A target race

The date of this race is two weeks later than we anticipated. We will adjust the ATP to cater for this.

a summer A race?

Now there is a longer gap between the two "A" races. I will look for a
race to target in the middle of this gap (around July).

This could be a 1h FTP type event like Norikura.

Alternatively, we could try something different. For example a punchy road race with some specific training of VO2max.

We may restructure the ATP for 3 peaks. Or we may just "race through it".

We will talk about these things more after Tokyo~Itoigawa.