Winter Training Block

A summary of the last 2 months spent on the turbo trainer:

 









Comparision to same period last year

Training Comparisions - Cadence

Time to compare last year's winter training to date.
It has felt like struggle this time around to maintain the regime.
A key element of winter training is not actually to get 'fitter' in a sense but to develop cellular adaptations that will encourage getting fitter especially race fitter during early 2014.
These adaptations include the key element of cadence. Getting the legs to move quickly but not under stress loading leads to mitochondrial function improvements.
I did think that my average cadence was suffering this year but the comparisions tables show that it is holding up.

 
The lines from 2012 and this year are closely matched. 

December Training

Pressure of work means very restricted time to train.
A solution is to allow just 30 minutes of 'training' time per day.
Keeping intensity high but with reduced volume in an aim to maintain fitness.
A typical workout should contain a target of 20 minutes 'effort'.

November Summary

Off season training at its hardest in the sense of motivation or will to train even at much lower intensity.

 Training every day may not be to everbody's taste and possibly it isn't actually to mine either but it is do this or balloon into a balloon shaped object very quickly.
This time of the year I am not a racing cyclist, just someone on a bike trying hard not to go hard - actually thats the easy bit.