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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Week 1 of Build Phase Training.

I can't believe that my off season is over!  It's actually pretty exciting since I'm entering into new (ish) athletic territory (Bike Racing).  It's also nice to have some clearly defined goals and a plan in place to achieve those goals.  My race season officially starts April 12th beginning with bike racing the Opus Crit Series.  Last week I sat down with my coach and detailed out my 2011 goals, race schedule, and plan for build phases and peaks.  I have never really came into a season with such detailed goals and plans, I really hope my body holds together this season.  So this week officially started my 1st build phase and I will be into my 3rd build phase of training by the time racing starts. The main difference in my current training will be the focus on High Intensity Training Sessions (HIT).  I'll be doing my normal 2 swims/week, 2 runs/week, and now 3 bike workouts/week vs. 2 with a focus on quantifiable data during the HIT workouts and measuring the progress of that every week. I'll work this plan till mid april the incorporate HIT sessions for running and swimming. 

This Monday I did a max power output test on the computrainer over at Optum Health Performance with my coach and will be utilizing that watt output data to base my HIT sessions off of.  Also, I just booked a bike fitting next week to get me completely dialed in on my new bike.  I recently bought a new seatpost and a couple stems then realized that a bike fit really should be a priority for me right now.  This is my first real road bike and after 3 years and about 8000 miles of training and races on a Time Trial bike, I'm really enjoying the feel of the road bike and can't wait to see what I can do on hill climbs!  Some of the other items I am thinking I would need to buy is; bike clothing (I have a lot of tri clothes and pretty thin on the bike clothes), light weight wheels (I have zipp 808's for my TT set up but would like a not as deep wheelset for road racing/training),  a disc wheel cover for Time Trial races ($89 on wheelbuilder.com a nice option vs. buying a separate disc wheel), a wireless power meter I've been told that this should be a priority buy for training. Anyways I digress, I have a lot to do to get ready for this season!  Can't wait!

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