How to plan your 2024 season
Ben Delaney
This is the third podcast in an eight-pod how-to series. Last episode we talked about 14 ways to review your season, and on this podcast we discuss how to map out your 2024 season for maximum results and fun.
Coach Jake Rytlewski raced as a professional for many years, and he breaks down the full-year planning methodology for three types of athletes:
- coached riders
- Optimize subscribers
- self-coached athletes
Related reading and listening:
- Timing is everything: The what, when and how of annual training
- The five pillars of off-season training
- Taking a proper post-season break
- Plan your fall and winter training
- Off-season training
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Road Racing Intervals
- Increase your functional and race-specific power output
- Includes Sweet Spot, VO2, Anaerobic, Threshold
Road Race In-Season
- Weekend racing and group rides with weekday training and recovery
- anaerobic efforts like criss cross, Over/Unders Sweet Spot, Threshold
Foundation : 3 Weeks
- Perfect for all cyclists beginning off season training
- Raise your CTL and the all-important muscle tension intervals
Phil Gaimon's Strava PR Plan
- Perfect Plan for Those with Less Training Time, starts at 15 minutes per day
- VO2's, 1 minuters, Tabatas, threshold, suprathreshold, and even Sweet Spot
