Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff

Read closer. Friel's book is really for Cat 3 and up; racers who have been racing for 2 or 3 years already. He says this explicitly. A new racer doesn't know enough about his or her body to make use of anything but the most general of information in that book. It does have good information for the new racer, but the specific training cycles and workouts and such that he goes though are really for more developed racers.