It’s getting to be that time of year when the first races of the season are quickly approaching, you’ve been (hopefully) putting in some solid base training, and your A race is on the foreseeable horizon. It’s time to start thinking about switching into race specific training with our sweet spot part 3 plan with over unders and criss cross intervals.
Coach Frank and Jackson are here to discuss the reasoning behind switching from base to race, building upon our Master’s CTL podcast. We break down calculating out when that time frame is, what kind of workouts or training plans you should be doing, and answer some listener questions.
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Comments (2)
I love the podcast. I have a question about the transition from base to race and periodization. I don’t really have A or B races since I like to do different race series. Between mountain bike and cross series, every race matters pretty much equally from march-december. So is it best to do repeated mini-cycles of CTL, interval and rest weeks (if so how long would these be?) or do the regular periodization and just expect to do poorly during the one or 2 long CTL blocks in the season?
That is a good question, Keith – you can ‘reload’ your CTL inbetween races that are 2 weekends or more apart. Recover from your race, raise the CTL with our sweet spot part 3 plan https://fascatcoaching.com/training-plans/sweet-spot-part-3/ and then allow enough recovery for the next race. But while you are reloading that CTL make sure you are ALSO training specifically for the upcoming race(s) with race specific intervals.