Originally Posted by
YMCA
You are spending 3.5 months doing Z12 stuff? That's cause for burnout in my book.
When I start training again, I'll go easy for a week to adjust the muscles, then start up the tempo until I feel fit enough to start throwing down hard.
The whole procees of building up to hard efforts (attacks, etc), takes no more than a month. After a month of that it's race time. So that's two months total to prepare.
Not saying you are wrong in your approach, just that who needs that much time to build such a simple base.
I do zone 2 intervals, climbing, tempo, and core workouts. Would rather ride zone 2 and keep some fitness than not ride at all and lose what ive gained.
This is also the time of year your work on technique... something you cant really do well while hammering mid season.