Not an easy task at all. With close to 100 miles just in commuting a week on a B'twin bike made from lead piping it can burn the legs a little. However as so many seem to say "train heavy and race light!". It does make sense in a way but I still miss commuting at high speed.
I have upgraded my groupset on my race bike to a full matching Shimanio 105 10 speed groupset. I would love to be able to upgrade my wheels but I can't see me being able to afford that anytime soon.
In all my bike is just over 9kg, which is heavy for a race bike and will put me at a slight disadvantage. So the way I will be making up for this is by smashing myself to death training.
At the young age of 37 I am seen and licenced as a senior! AKA they may as just well give me a blue rinse and pack me off to the retirement home. So it's not like I am going to be hacking out a living at a pro level anytime soon, however it is still going to be fun.
So far I have 3 100 mile sportives planned in and around the start of the season, plus I will be entering into the Tameside closed circuit racing league. That means racing on a Tuesday night. Also I am looking at a few more local road races depending on how I do.
Until then it is going to be a hard package of interval and sprint training, mixed with a smattering of endurance and (comparative) medium distance training.
This week along with a quick test of my new setup, I have managed to cover 100 miles plus 1 turbo session of 30 minutes. Not a massive start to the year as yet again I had a terrible cold over Christmas and New Years.
Monday 12th is day 1 of an 8 week Strava training plan. It may work, but in all honesty I think anything is better than nothing at this stage. Irony has it though that even though it's day 1 it is a rest day. Does my commute count. Perhaps I need to not actually count any of my commutes. We shall see how it goes.
Back on the bike again!
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