ZackJones
Greetings,
Here's a quick summary of my first week of training with the CTS folks.
I had rides scheduled for 6 out of 7 days. Some of the rides consisted of riding for a specific period of time and others had specific workout tasks to complete during the ride.
I have found that commuting is taking a toll on my training time. Some days I'm riding 3 separate rides totaling 2 1/2 hours. I'll ride into work (1/2 hour), home (1/2 hour) have a short break (1 - 2 hours) and then head out for the 1 - 1 1/2 hour workout. I've asked my coach to try and come up with some shorter workouts for me to try so that I may be able to do them at lunch and when I ride home in the afternoon I'll be done for the day. We'll see.
Yesterday I did have a bad experience doing one of the prescribed workouts. I was attempting to do muscle tension intervals. Basically you put it in a big gear (52x12 to 52 x 15) and then ride this gear up an incline. I made it 3 minutes into the first one and had to quit because my knees were killing me :( I cut yesterdays 2 1/2 hour ride down to 1 1/2 hours because once the knees started to hurt I bagged the ride and had Donna come pick me up.
A possible contributing factor is different crank arm length. For most of last week I've been riding a Fuji Ace that I built for my daughter to ride. It has 170mm cranks on it. Yesterday when I went out for my long ride I did it on the K2 which has 175mm cranks on it. Because I have found the 170mm cranks easier on my knees I've ordered a new crankset and bottom bracket and will be switching to 170mm cranks on my K2.
We'll see what this week has in store for me :) Hopefully my coach can come up with a series of workouts that better fit into my current schedule.
Zack
Here's a quick summary of my first week of training with the CTS folks.
I had rides scheduled for 6 out of 7 days. Some of the rides consisted of riding for a specific period of time and others had specific workout tasks to complete during the ride.
I have found that commuting is taking a toll on my training time. Some days I'm riding 3 separate rides totaling 2 1/2 hours. I'll ride into work (1/2 hour), home (1/2 hour) have a short break (1 - 2 hours) and then head out for the 1 - 1 1/2 hour workout. I've asked my coach to try and come up with some shorter workouts for me to try so that I may be able to do them at lunch and when I ride home in the afternoon I'll be done for the day. We'll see.
Yesterday I did have a bad experience doing one of the prescribed workouts. I was attempting to do muscle tension intervals. Basically you put it in a big gear (52x12 to 52 x 15) and then ride this gear up an incline. I made it 3 minutes into the first one and had to quit because my knees were killing me :( I cut yesterdays 2 1/2 hour ride down to 1 1/2 hours because once the knees started to hurt I bagged the ride and had Donna come pick me up.
A possible contributing factor is different crank arm length. For most of last week I've been riding a Fuji Ace that I built for my daughter to ride. It has 170mm cranks on it. Yesterday when I went out for my long ride I did it on the K2 which has 175mm cranks on it. Because I have found the 170mm cranks easier on my knees I've ordered a new crankset and bottom bracket and will be switching to 170mm cranks on my K2.
We'll see what this week has in store for me :) Hopefully my coach can come up with a series of workouts that better fit into my current schedule.
Zack