Sweet Spot Marathon MTB Plan

• Prepare for an ultra MTB race with climbing intervals, sweet spotting and simulation rides
• Includes a taper into your race and cycling specific nutrition guidance for long events

This six week 100 mile mountain bike race plan will prep you for a grueling 100 mile mountain bike race with gobs of Sweet Spot and Threshold plus a dab of anaerobic work during the week.

The weekends are full of long rides up to 8 hours with plenty of climbing that will give you a chance to test your fueling plans as well as your saddle fit! There's also plenty of low aerobic endurance work to help you build that mitochondrial density that will make you more efficient on race day.

Over the course of the six week training plan you'll ramp up your hours up steadily to handle the long day in the saddle. We've included some of our favorite workouts (Bursts, Sweet Spot, Criss-Cross & more) to help you prepare for a great race day!

Example Events are any of the NUE Series race including Cohutta, Mohican, Bailey Hundo, High Cascades and the Shenandoah 100 to name a few 100 milers.

• Builds a Big Aerobic Base
  
• Complete 4 month Training Plan with 3 Power Tests
• new Professional Level with 18 - 26 hours / week

To begin your sweet spot base training you'll perform a Field Test to set your training zones, especially the all important sweet spot training zone!  A second test half thru your plan will measure your improvement and update your training zones and a third a final test will do the same. Athletes can expect to increase their FTP by 5 – 20%! 

This 16 week plan is all new for 2022 and combine workouts from Sweet Spot Parts 1 - 4 in a progressive optimized training plan design.  You'll start off gradually and progress in sweet spot volume each week.  

In the final mesocycle of this plan you'll be doing long sweet spot TSS rides on Saturdays and short structured 'wintertime intensity' during the work week. 

• Increase power and endurance 
• Combines Weight Lifting + Sweet Spot Base Training

Complete Off Season 30 week training plan that includes 3 all new re-designed plan for 2022 that are optimized when paired together:

1. 3 week Fall Foundation (new for 2022 💥)

2. 10 Weeks of Weight Lifting (new for 2022 💥)

3. 16 Weeks of Sweet Spot (new for 2022 💥)

Weight lifting for cycling ‘works’ and we’ve been coaching cyclists thru our 4 phase, cycling-specific resistance training program for close to 20 years.

There are four phases of the resistance training with accompanying neuromuscular sprint work to accentuate the lifting to make the weight lifting cycling specific.

You'll sweet spot up the whazoo for 16 weeks with 4 mesocycles (4 weeks each) to increase your aerobic fitness. This is your all-in-one plan for the Off-Season! Listen and learn more about the 30 week plan from the training tip and podcast here.

As a Training Plan athlete, you may want to Hire a Coach to follow a plan custom designed for you with regular feedback.  Click here to learn more about hiring a FasCat Coach. We will waive the $99 start up fee if you have previously bough a training plan!  Sample Workout Gallery:

• 12 wks of TT specific threshold intervals 
• Raise your threshold power output with VO2's
  
• Includes, Course Recons, a Taper into the Race + Leg Openers!

Our 40k time trial training plan includes time trial specific threshold intervals and 40K "Race Simulation" workouts. It's all about raising your threshold power output because that's how you time trial your fastest!

To do so there are TT intervals like we've described in this TT Training Tip. There are also VO2's and supra-threshold fatigue resistance Intervals (FRC's) designed to raise your power output. Got a local TT series or other training races on your calendar? You can replace race-effort workouts with actual races because there's nothing like pinning a number on your jersey for the most motivation. 

As a Training Plan athlete, you may want to add our Coaching Subscription to your Training Plan purchase. Our Coaching Subscription offers additional coaching services including monthly training plan adjustments, and power-file analysis. Click here to learn more. Sample Workout Gallery: