Compared to the last several years, this summer has been about as unstructured as any year I can remember training wise. I guess there's been some routine in the 3 weeks on, 1 week easy, and Monday and Friday are generally easier or off, but that's about it. Not much of any plan so to speak. I seem to be engaged in some kind of epic Strava battle with a few different guys. We keep going back and forth stealing each others KOM's. That in itself has made for some pretty hard interval work. Right now it seems to be a lot easier to get motivated to go after a segment KOM rather than do structured 2 x 20's or 6 x 5's or whatever.
I think the big miles July block has started to kick in because my fitness feels pretty good right now.
There were a couple races I've done this month. The overall results were not great, mainly due to bad timing on my part at crucial times during the races, but I felt really good in both and actually got some pretty good primes.
I decided to pass on the Hotter N' Hell events this year. Just felt like riding around here and avoiding the circus. There's plenty more road racing coming up in September, then the season jumps right into cyclocross. It's definitely starting to feel like it weather wise.
11 years ago
