Whoa... late March.... you've got that race? Is that you?

If so, you could time it so that you spend the rest of Jan. doing base. Then Feb, switch over to doing endurance long rides. March, move into strength. By the end of March, you can incorporate the intervals in, and you can use your race for working on your VO2 max. Then April, do your intervals. May, add in the speedwork and high intensity rides. That will take you to June, and you'll be ready to do some serious racing.

Of course, this is the simplistic way of looking at it. Since you want to keep your conditioning, you have to do "microperiodizing" so you can peak a few times. Then it just becomes necessary to get a coach if you're that serious.

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