Winter miles.....

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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    I had a crack at the Black Book plan last year and had mixed results. I enjoyed a lot of the training and never felt really tired so that was very good. I felt good on most of my rides especially a couple of 200k+ sportives and a hilly 170k sportive. Road racing I felt that I lacked the top end I usually have especially in sprints and in fact only did 3 events 'cos i felt I was getting nowhere! I was hoping to just enjoy riding this year and mostly that worked out and I was motivated by the winter turbo sessions.
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  • hugo15
    hugo15 Posts: 1,101
    Reed only has 4 zones in his Black Book. His Zone 2 is 75% to 85% of max.
  • 320DMsport
    320DMsport Posts: 306
    In Pete Reads defense your discussing training methods he wrote about 10 years ago, things were prob diff then as they will be in 10 years time.

    My mate did the black book to the word, pretty taxing but he works part time and has OCD to does everything to the dot, he does very well in his events and places top ten on the FW.

    I know from the email my friend sent me from his recent visit to Pete and the training he has prescribed is not just long steady at all, some quite tough session from now right through till feb.

    I have another mate that races in Premier Callendar and does Crits, he does long miles through winter, no power meter of Hr monitor, all on feel and pushes pretty hard, only ever uses hr for recovery to makes sure not going to hard.

    Its prob horses for courses, i know if i had more time i'd ride for longer at a steadier pace to complete the rides and still throw in the tough stuff.

    I'm based in the lakes so there is no way i can stay under 85% hr on the climbs round here, never have been able too in any base period.

    As the OP states what he wants to do, i think the hardest prob would be to train for all he wants to do, road races, tt, sportives, etc, i would imagine training for TT is not going to be like training for a crit?

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