Originally Posted by
wfrogge
With my training plan the " aerobic base" peroid goes from mid Oct till end of Jan. I train every day of the week and if I start creeping into zone 3 or higher during these workouts would run the risk of burnout when the season gets here.
So IMHO the real reason to say zone 2 or less during this time of year is to avoid burnout and give your body a rest from last season while maintaining fitness.
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.