Do you have an actual "training program?"

This is what my first schedule looked like for the first week. i deleted some info from it that is personal.this schedule was aimed for climbing.this is from a local pro coach ive been with about 5 months.all of his workouts are not prefabs and are wrote based upon my fitness level (AT test) and goals.

Mon-off day completely, really try to use these recovery days the best you can, take care of sleep, nutrition, hydration and relaxation
Tue-2/zone 1, 2/ min zone /5 min zone hill repeats w/ 3 off on a 6%+ climb if possible/5 min zone after the intervals
Wed-1.5/zone 1, 2/ x 10 min zone w/ 5 off on flat ground at cadence/drills and , use the drops if possible
Thurs-1.5/zone 1, 2/10 min zone /6 x min zone hill repeats w/ off on a steep hill /5 min zone after the intervals, save a good cool down too
Fri-off day completely here too man, take it easy and rest up for the weekend
Sat-3/zone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5/, start up near the front and stay as far up as you can, if you are not always moving forward you are moving back, stay in the top 30 if possible, save the big efforts for when it counts! Do the regular loop today that is 3 hours
Sun-3-4/zone 1, 2, 3//ride from the sign at the base to in mid zone to low zone at rpm, from to 11 you can ride any cadence but keep the pace to zone & at the most, you can park at on if you like because riding from your house will be too far probably, you can park anywhere really, keep the rest of the ride zone , , only, get me a time to and hr averages, use the same starting point every time please

I self coach. My training program is based on the books "performance cycling" by dave morris, "ultimate ride" by chris carmichael, and the "cyclists training bible" by joe friel.

Volume and intensity of my program changes every week. Presently im in a build phase of training and I am racing most weekends. I'm doing lots of hard workouts while getting plenty of rest. Here's what my next week looks like.

mon - rest day off the bike
tues - zone 2 endurance 1.5-2.5 hours depending on weather and schedule
weds - 2 hour cyclocross training with local CX experts. lots of sprints and barrier work. The practice ends with a 20-30 minute mock CX race
thur - 1 hour zone 2 or less
fri - big gear low cadency hilly ride 1.5-2.5 hours (just a zone 2 with a bunch of big hills along the way, effort goes up when climbing and cadence goes down)
sat - 1-2 hour zone 2 or less
sunday - intervals or CX race ~2 hours of riding

Next week is a rest week.
weds will be CX practice
sunday will be a cx race
All other days will be no ride or just 1 hour in zone 2

I have a planned peak in the beginning of december for CX nationals and the finals of the ECC cx series. After my peak I'll chill out for a week then start working towards another peak in early april. I'll race the early season mountain bike races and do several collegiate road races (collegiate road season is march-may).

The rest of april, may,and june will be base miles. Mostly long easy rides to clear my head and work on my endurance. Long rides will be 4-5 hours at this time and short rides will be 1.5-2 hours with at least 1 day off a week. In may I'll add tempo work and hill work.Then in late june I'll start racing again (low priority local races) and slowly build up intensity for CX season.

We'll see what happens. I started riding 6 months ago (did not ride for last 2 years, I used to be a weekend warrior and race sport class MTB races randomly). I think I'm almost ready to upgrade to expert XC and I'm doing better each week in the B class in the ECC CX series. Goals for next year are to learn how to road race and to upgrade to expert XC and just hang in there!

I'm just starting to plan my training for next season (autumn now here in England). I'm planning on training less next year, after experimenting with more hours this year which I think made me too tired for the important high-intensity workouts.

I'm planning 2 days off, or at least 1 day off, 1 day very easy/off, then looking at some level 4 (3x10mins @ 260W) and level 5 (4-5 x 3mins @ 300W) work through the winter to hang onto fitness while doing level 1/2 base rides.

I'm also looking to return to hard/easy training days after experimenting with Dave Morris's block training of 2-3 days of hard work lumped together. It seemed to work at first but I think it made me overly tired in the end and I overdid it a bit.

Hope this helps you Scott. If I were to advise you I would say mix up your days a lot more. Keeping each day very similar means you will get bored very quickly and lose interest. I would mix it up it an easy day (8 miles?) then a hard day (30miles) rather than do 25miles every day. Also maybe throw in some harder intervals and take a day or two off. I'm starting to realise (at long last) that it's the days off that are most important, with high intensity work the next most important factor. The easy rides should be just that, nice and easy for recovery, unless you're training to ride long distances (e.g. centuries).