Goals and Training plans

I have always enjoyed my training more when I had a goal to work for.

My new goal is the 24hrs of Wiesenhof in January. Once again I want to ride it in the Solo category. Just Me, Myself and the voices in my head.

The idea is not to win the race, but rather to push myself to the limits of my endurance and way past the percieved limits of my body. By not training for the 24hr I can easily reach my body's limit, but there is no fun in that. I want to be in good form so that I can go (relatively) faster, and I want to ride through the night. To achieve that I need to become a monster.

I've set up a 16week training plan that will culminate the week before the 24hr. At the end of the base building phase of the plan I will be doing 12hrs of riding a week. As the 24hr race is about endurance more than strength I might deviate from the plan to extend the base phase another 2 weeks to add a couple of 6-8hrs rides over the weekends.

The plan I developed uses the Polar 16 week training program to give me a breakdown of weekly hour totals I need to do. The daily breakdown is up to me to tweak the rides according to events and days available to me.

To get hours into my legs I will commute into Cape Town from my flat. I will do some epic long rides over the weekends and put in as many night rides as I can. The night rides are a necessity in training for the 24hr, and happen to be great fun as well.

All this riding will be best when shared with others, so feel free to join me.

Happy trails everyone

Peace
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