Next training block.

January already and onto my 2nd block of 8 week training.

As i mentioned in my previous blog i am quite advanced fitness wise so both me and my coach have decided that "faint heart never won fair maiden" in fact faint heart never won fuck all so the plan is to put a fair layer of icing on the cake ready for the cherry to be put on top when i start racing in March.

The programme is hard with a sting in the tail in all the sessions that are scheduled.On Saturday did 9x4 minute hill intervals with my pulse around my OBLA (onset of blood lactate accumilation) 164/5 bpm. These are done on progressively harder gears starting on the 17 sprocket and going down to the 13 then back up again,all seated and all on the 53 chainring.

They went really well they were hard but satisfying.

I decided not to do anything Sunday as i wanted to start the week fresh ready for the 5 sessions that has been scheduled into a 7 day cycle.

Just finished my simulated through and off by far the shortest session of the week but by far the most brutal 10 seconds flat out sprint followed by 20 seconds hard just sprint as many times as you can around 4 for me and do around 3-4 sets managed to see 181bpm on my pulse which is very high for me and only managed 3 sets so will try and do the full 4 next week.My coach said that if i could do more than 4 sets i wasnt doing them hard enough on this mornings evidence i will definately agree with him.

2 hour road session tomorrow.....can't wait!!

See you on the road sometime,

Tony B.