Training 2014/15

Basic Week Structure

This is what I will try and do for the next 40 weeks.
Things will get in the way, but this should be achievable / repeatable

	Morning	Lunch	Afternoon	Evening
Sat	medium/long ride – ride out with the missus then add on
Sun	long ride
Mon	bike commute (28k)	yoga/ mobility	(optional) bike commute
Tue	optional bike commute	easy run	bike commute (35k)	turbo, weights
Wed	bike commute (28k)	weights	optional bike commute
Thu	optional bike commute	off or run	bike commute (35k)	turbo, run or swim
Fri	rest day			swim then pizza

Sat / Sun – long rides are key sessions – they are the point
Monday – commute in – this will extend, simulating getting up and riding again.
Bike commutes are across central London – way to many lights so the ride is basically an interval session.  I am trying to go easy.
Bike commutes – I will drop these as needed early in the year – keeping fresh to hit my turbos and long rides.  Later in the year the commutes become mandatory, and some will be extended
Turbos – as spec’d – my hard / intense sessions.
Yoga – stay supple / and in one piece – try to stop myself being broken by so much riding
Swim / Run – well I have an ironman to do a month before the TCR! – basically doing the minimum to get around.

Outline Training Plan

End feb – big weekend away

mid march – Ironman Triathlon training camp (everydaytraining.org) on Lanzarote.  6 days of 30 min swim, long bike, 30 min run a day.I am staying on an extra week, so thats 12 days of 150k a day.

Mid April – big weekend away
Early May – big weekend away
Mid May – big weekend away

Mid May – 2 day sportive with the wife around london

End May – very big week  – Ride to the Tour of Wessex, 3 days of Tour of Wessex, ride home

End of June – 10 day road trip driving to Austria, with Ironman Austria as the highlight – ok a big training day.  Plan to ride in the alps most days.

This is a summary of my training over each of the 40 weeks since I entered the transcontinental.

 

I had good intentions for 2014/5.
Good Bits
Nov / Dec 2014
Training camp in Lanza (Feb 2015)
Tour of Wessex (May 2015)

err… thats about it

Bad Bits

An ironman ahead of the TCR was a bad idea
I got bored in June / July
Turbos stopped in March…..  (cooincides with me getting a management job 😦  )

 

I also obviously got bored filling out the table below….
Its all in training peaks but essentially I did regular bike commutes and regular weekend rides, but no more…

Week	total (hrs)	riding (km)	long ride (hrs)	Comment!
1	14:50	329k	5.5	split ride to Dads. wet on the way there
2	22.5	446k	6.5	castle ride, then added on as it was a nice day. Will need to double this – thats food for thought.
3	17.5	339k	7.75	epic split ride to Dads. wet on the way there, night ride on the way home – very commiting! and character building
4	22	390k	6.25	epic ride in the cold, wet wet wet. Massive flooding
5	12	220k	0	YAY!!! i’m in In celebration, wussed out of the Sunday ride – spent the day in bed
6	20.4	330k	4, 5	4 hrs sat, 5 on sunday
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17				big weekend away??
18
19				EDT Training Camp 07 – 13 march
20				Week in Lanza 14 – 20 march
21
22
23				big weekend away??
24
25
26				big weekend away??
27
28
29				big weekend away??
30				Mittie around london 16 / 17 may
31
32				big weekend away?? ride there Tour of wessex 23 – 25 may ride home
33				ride there Chiltern 100 31 may ride home
34
35				Holiday starts – 21 June – 4th July
36				Ironman Austria 28 June
37				Holiday till 4th July
38
39
40				TCR