Races, Record Posts, and Training

This makes the most posts I've ever done in a month. Nine to be exact.

I've updated my race sched for the first half of next year. Seems like all the bike associations are throwing up their tentative scheds. I hope to do all the ones listed to the right side of my blog.

Training is going good. Still focusing on raising my FTP and loosing a bit of weight, both in hopes of raising my PWR. Right now I'm very happy with were I'm at in my training and PWR. Two years ago I would've never thought I would be racing now. I had in my mind if I didn't ride 20 hours a week, I would never be any good.

Here are the workouts I do every week:
4x4min @ 115%FTP
3x8min @ 105%FTP
2x20min @ 95%FTP
and usually one or two 1500-2000kj burner rides

I mix it up every week, and if I have a race I usually leave out my 2x20's. The 1500-2000kj burner rides are done at 75%FTP simply for the purpose of burning calories, and getting a bit of endurance back into my training. I would assume that a 2000kj race will be about the longest I'll have as a Cat4. I might up it to 2500 if and when I get to Cat3 due to the longer races.

If you don't have a lot of time to ride, don't give up. Just make the most of the riding time that you have. Ride hard, but recover hard.

Can't wait till the end of Feb. Looking forward to the Greenville spring series races. I went down last year for the last two, and the turn out was huge. Probably 50-60 people in a cat4 field. That's pretty good for that time of year. I'm itching to get started.

Stay tuned for more....