I’m taking advantage of the holidays to take stock of
my training and competitions mid-season.
We won’t go back over the rotten winter and spring,
but they taught me that you
can be very efficient and fresh by prioritizing Mid-season review short and
intense quality over long/exhausting outings, especially in the cold. So from mid
-April I was able to provide 245w average over 3 hours without ever having done longer
and beating my 2012 records by +10w at the same time (even with
March 2012 being very beautiful and mild). The
short outings at PMA and the
longer ones in Sweet spot training mode made me very efficient and economical for me over 3 hours.
Then at the end of April
I set up a Gimenez cycle before the first cyclos
also giving very good results with from my 3rd a record for
me with 300wavg held over 45 min. In short, very phone number list satisfied finally with the
progression until mid-May especially without exceeding 8 to 10 Mid-season review hours per week or
80/90TSS/D.
Almost 5 w/kg for this Gimenez.
Then a few beautiful
days finally arrived, allowing me to consolidate my critical
mountain endurance and performance. From the second +4h, I was holding 240wavg and 257wnp
on 2300mD+ over 120 km, all the hills passed between 270 and 300w. Huge
for me.
The progression stopped there from a pure performance point of view.
The other Gimenez didn’t give anything better, nor the NP and average power of the
long outings. As is often the case in training, one quality often develops
at the expense of another.
Without a power meter
it’s difficult to notice, but with one, it’s obvious. Thus, the long use hello bar to make sure you send preparation outings to
maintain the power over 3000mD+ and up to 4h30/5h (in view of the EDT preparation)
will have eroded my pure power. I’m
certainly paying here for the rotten spring by wanting to chain together a
few too many long outings too quickly to be ready on time. As a result, a little
residual fatigue must have set in. Besides, my cold snap book your list that occurred for the Time
was a first warning.