Bicycling not going so well this year..
October 18, 2007My bicycling goals for the year have been all but squashed, i’m training now for a couple of solo centuries by the end of the year but I don’t think I’m going to be able to hit my original goals for the year. I let too much other stuff get in the way. I’ve been doing a lot of work on the trainer with a geared bike, then doing my outside riding on the fixed gear. The fixed gear is an ass-kicker. When I’m training I try not to stop pedaling and keep my heart rate up the entire time I’m on the bike. In fact, my standard training approach for 50+ mile training sessions is 5 minutes off the bike every hour, to refuel, stretch, then back on the bike for another hour.
I read an interview last year with a doctor who ran a marathon each month, and had been doing so for quite a few years. His point was that if you did a marathon each month you didn’t have to go through periods of ramping up your training for multiple months to get in shape for a marthon, you are simply always in shape.
I have been thinking of trying this approach in my own training by riding a century each month. I think it’s easily doable and it allows me to add some variety to my training instead of always riding the same 20-30 routes. The only problems I can see with an organized century each month is that there are some gaps in the centuries around the winter. I imagine I’ll just have to do a few solo centuries in the winter to meet this goal.
We’ll have to see how that goes.
