October Training

I had to work a bit late, and was unable to hit the Wednesday Night MTB ride tonight. I havent really trained all that much since about mid-August - I have trained maybe 30 hours total in the six weeks since then. This off-season period was not really part of my 2007 Training Plan - I had initially planned to peak for Masters Track Nationals in August, but it didn't work out this year. I've had some additional issues with my back and a heavy work load at the firm, so I had to put training and racing aside. But it has sort of worked out well...I've had an early off-season, and now I feel totally refreshed physically, and am very ready to train hard again. October 1 was the first day of my 2008 Training Plan and I'm three days in. I'm going to change some things this year on a tactical level so I can be well trained for Winter Park next summer, but the strategy is the same - the same periodic training principles apply. So as usual, the first few blocks are easy, adaptive, low-intensity periods. I have some goals and objectives that I'll post about later, but one of the main key characteristics of any successful year is consistancy, so one of my main goals this year is a 90% workout completion rate. I just want to get in 9 out of 10 planned trainign ewfforts. Not as easy at it sounds, but easy enough. So, as of now I am 3 for 3 for workout completion! Occasionally, we all have to take a TURD (Totally Unplanned Rest Day), but for this next season I am going do what I can to keep those to a minimum.

Im going to do some creative training this coming weekend in prep for Moab. I'm thinking of doing two 90-minute hard efforts about 4 or 5 hours apart to simulate the race schedule, and one of those efforts will be with the lights at Green Mountain or somewhere. I am really looking forward to racing Moab next weekend. More about Moab later.

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