Originally Posted by
SpongeDad
I actually kinda like 5x3' intervals, but not doing them 10/10ths.
Merlin - this early in season, what's the thought process behind 5x3's? I thought 3' or shorter were for later in the year.
Things start early down here. First race is Jan 17. So one more week of power intervals, then next week is a recovery week, and then we pretty much have races every weekend for the next several months.
That said, my coach did flip my program around a bit. Last year I was doing steady states (10-20 minute intervals) working on LT at this point. This year we skipped past that and went from tempo to the VO2 work. He says he's had success flipping the LT and V02 blocks to challenge your body after you've been doing the same routine for a long time.
We'll see how it works, but I did feel a lot faster than this time last year on this weekend's group ride.