Thanks guys!
Yesterday I went to the track at York and did a CF bike tempo circuit. I did it along with a big talented oaf who barely trains and ran 21.62 FAT last year.
He has asked me to train him for the outdoor season, but he has a spotty history when it comes to training, is constantly injured, and it would be a huge time commitment. On the other hand, I’m an unproven coaching commodity and it’s not like it’s easy to find big talented oafs to experiment on. I’ll have to think more about it this week.
About the CF bike tempo, he said “it was the hardest workout of my life” which should indicate his lack of basic fitness despite the fact that he’s got no body fat and looks totally ripped.
Of course, I’ve been doing the bike tempo workout once a week pretty much all season long, so it’s easy for me now. I noticed that I am in a pretty highly recovered state, I could easily have gone at a much higher RPM on the bike, but kept it at a reasonable pace. It’s the last week of the indoor season, so I’m not trying to get fit here, just flush after my race.
I’m going to take today off, and do some speed work tomorrow. I’m going to do a five day taper heading into this Sunday’s race. The most exciting part of this week’s taper is that I’ll be getting a massage from Waldemar on Friday, then another on Saturday. Now ideally, it would be nice to get that work done earlier in the taper so he could go deeper if he needed to I guess, but still…better late than never!
The man makes you feel otherworldly good, there is no easy way to describe the effects of his regeneration work- he is just on another planet when it comes to loosening you up and getting your ready to go fast.