Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: Getting Ready

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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Thursday, 30 December 2010

Getting Ready

This evening I sat down and prepared my training diary for the season ahead. I have my own Excel spreadsheet that needs a bit of work at the beginning of each year but gives me plenty of information and compiles any number of stats. I have also broken it down into Base and Speed phases, included recovery weeks and a taper period leading up to The Outlaw. I haven't worked out the details of each phase just yet but there is plenty of time for that detail; I'm going to try something different this year and see how it goes. Of course, the biggest change from the last 2 years is that I have to incorporate swimming and running into the programme again so don't expect to average anything like the 212kms per week I averaged on the bike in 2010. That said, I still hope to get a minimum of 7 hours a week on the bike so may not be that far off 200kms most weeks.

I'm feeling enthusiastic and excited about the year ahead; I would like to have done the Alpe D'Huez race with Coach Roy and Reg but I really can't this year. Will I ever do it? Who knows.

Happy New Year to you all.