So we're a week into the collegiate road season already, with the second set of races happening in 2 days.
The week after that, (so March 14th-20th) our team is going down to georgia to do some training in a warmer, hillier, and more interesting climate than ...chicago... uuugh. We're gonna be 10 miles away from the famous Brasstown Bald, so that should be pretty sweet too!
Directly following that week in georgia, on March 21st and 22nd, there's another race weekend that the team is going to do. I'll make a little table to assist in visualizing our schedule for the next few weeks...
Today: Thursday, March 5th
Friday-Sunday March 6th-8th : Race weekend @ Depauw University
Friday-Friday, March 14th-20th: Train in Georgia
Saturday-Sunday, March 21st-22nd: Race @ Notre Dame University
Saturday-Sunday, March 28th-29th: Race @ Michigan St. University
ect...
All of these race weekends are worth the same amount of points in the collegiate season omnium, and my current goal is to get as many good finishes as I can so I can get points to upgrade to collegiate A's (like a well mixed 1,2,3 category). I'm currently almost there, just a few more quality finishes should be all I need... But then everyone will be way faster.
My training schedule as of now looks like:
Saturday:Road Race, usually 35-60 miles
Sunday: Criterium Race, usually 45-60 minutes
Monday: Off
Tuesday: 2 hours hard, Vo2 Max or sprints or LT, or anerobic work
Wednesday: 2 hours hard, Vo2 Max or sprints or LT or anerobic work
Thursday: off
Friday: 60-90 min eeeeasy spin
I've been doing this level of intestity in my training for the past 4ish weeks, and currently have a weekly milage of close to 150-175 miles.
So finally coming to my overall question, I was wondering what I should do when I go to georgia? Anyone wanna make up a pretty simple training plan for me?
As it is, I was planning to follow a cat 1 friend's yearly example: Go hard in georgia as the last week in a 5 week training block. Go way hard. Race the following weekend but don't expect to do well at all, cause the legs should be dead. Take the next week either completely off, or only do light spins, then resume my usual training like a bat outta hell.
I was probably gonna pretty much follow this, but maybe there's some coaches out there who'd just love helping an aspiring racer with a kinda detailed training plan for that week in georgia? I'd really appreciate it, and also if you need any more info about my fitness, or ability, or what I've already been doing, I'll go into more detail.