Originally Posted by
mike868y
Fortunately, for me, my A race is next Sunday (I thought it was a Saturday, but I was wrong) 8/8. Here is what I'm planning on doing - Today through Saturday off. Sunday and Monday light endurance. Tuesday off. Wednesday 90 minutes (balls hard balls easy as you described), recovery ride thursday, light endurance friday, openers saturday. More or less exactly what you wrote, just shifted back a day to account for the race being on Sunday. I'm going to keep my eye on my TSB and hope it goes positive.
Thanks again!
Sitting on your ass 10 days before a race is a terrible idea.
Keep riding through this weekend. Since you're obviously overreached, cut whatever you were planning half. But definitely get on your bike.
Then, next week, follow any of the dozens of of taper-week programs that are floating around here. They're all equally likely to work for you. Until you experiment with tapers, you'll have no idea what really works anyway.
If you're SB is only ever getting to -10, you aren't resting. You're floating along on a crappy plateau. Just because guys here do rest weeks with a bunch of riding doesn't mean YOU should - they are running LTS's nearly double yours, which means one of your regular weeks is a 50% week for them. You need to be really taking time OFF, or doing rides so short and easy they barely register any bike score at all.