A graders, how many hours do you put in per week?
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A graders, how many hours do you put in per week?
Postby DeVito » Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:19 pm
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Postby vander » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:31 pm
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Postby Derny Driver » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:43 pm
My son, nephew, brothers and all my mates do a minimum of 10-12 hours and its quality stuff. Depending on the time of the year and upcoming races, the training is different. Training for State Opens of 100+ km, or Tours, is different to just training for a 30k club race each week.
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Postby vander » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:56 pm
Then in A grade there is a big difference between the club A graders and the Open A graders than there is the NRS guys another level again.Derny Driver wrote:I managed to race A grade for years on 4 x 2hour rides per week plus the race day .... that was bare minimum and while I got results in races up to 60k I was useless at anything longer than that.
My son, nephew, brothers and all my mates do a minimum of 10-12 hours and its quality stuff. Depending on the time of the year and upcoming races, the training is different. Training for State Opens of 100+ km, or Tours, is different to just training for a 30k club race each week.
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Postby thearthurdog » Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:28 pm
2 x easy days.
2 x 4 - 6 hour endurance days with climbing.
1 x 2-3 hour day with specific intervals.
2 x 2 hour days on TT bike, doing TT stuff.
I'm nowhere near the top of Elite A in Qld but can hold my own.
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Postby ColinOldnCranky » Wed Sep 25, 2013 10:38 pm
I put in more than 800 hrs a year and I still can't manage any faster than 15kph.
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Postby fluro2au » Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:55 pm
Hunter Allen's "The Next Level" article gives a good outline of this sort of protocol.
3-4hrs doesn't sound like much, but it is..
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Postby Derny Driver » Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:13 pm
Supercoach is with Cipolla now?fluro2au wrote:I think more importantly, it's how much weekly volume you can maintain around FTP, is what makes an A grader. If you can put away 3-4hrs in and around FTP each week within consistent 14-16hr training weeks, you'll be there.
Hunter Allen's "The Next Level" article gives a good outline of this sort of protocol.
3-4hrs doesn't sound like much, but it is..
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Postby DeVito » Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:30 pm
LolColinOldnCranky wrote:I'm not sure what grade my speeds puts me in but I am sure it is not A grade. But for what it is worth here is my contribution.
I put in more than 800 hrs a year and I still can't manage any faster than 15kph.
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Postby Xplora » Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:36 pm
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Postby foo on patrol » Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:44 pm
Race on Friday nights if no Saturday and Sunday carnival racing but Saturday nearly always raced and then do a 60-70Klm ride Sunday. (this was for track)
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Postby toolonglegs » Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:03 pm
That's a serious amount of load, not just the 14-16 hours per week, but the recovery needed from the intensity.Xplora wrote:Nice article. Hunter is a true acolyte of Rule number 5!
I am wondering from what level he is talking about stepping up from and to.
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Postby Xplora » Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:05 pm
Seriously though, the article is clear. It doesn't matter what the level is, FTP intervals are hard for everyone and getting those hard hours in will help destroy the competition.
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Postby trek52 » Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:08 pm
I have won a couple of A grade races in my time.
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Postby skull » Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:14 pm
Golden cheetah is free and I find it is a much nicer interface tooXplora wrote:I think he's talking about stepping up from 15 bucks for Training with Power to 125 for WKO+ and Training with power.
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Postby fluro2au » Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:50 am
Yes DD,Derny Driver wrote:Supercoach is with Cipolla now?fluro2au wrote:I think more importantly, it's how much weekly volume you can maintain around FTP, is what makes an A grader. If you can put away 3-4hrs in and around FTP each week within consistent 14-16hr training weeks, you'll be there.
Hunter Allen's "The Next Level" article gives a good outline of this sort of protocol.
3-4hrs doesn't sound like much, but it is..
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Postby Xplora » Sat Oct 05, 2013 2:08 pm
The book is only so you know what you're reading, the comment about Allen and Coggan wanting people to spend money on WKO+ was humour. I clearly have no wit without a emoticon.skull wrote:Golden cheetah is free and I find it is a much nicer interface tooXplora wrote:I think he's talking about stepping up from 15 bucks for Training with Power to 125 for WKO+ and Training with power.
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I have found Golden Cheetah to be an absolute pain in the butt; however I agree that 120 bucks for software analysis is a bit much considering I am mostly looking at xPower, TSS and the PMC. CP plot as well to stroke my ego
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Postby Toolish » Sat Oct 12, 2013 7:37 pm
Can I ask how you schedule those rides into a week? 4-6 hours Saturday and Sunday?thearthurdog wrote:If there is no open racing on the weekend I will normally do around 550km a week. I squeeze this in around a 'long' job and wife / kids. Lucky for me I am an extremely early riser.
2 x easy days.
2 x 4 - 6 hour endurance days with climbing.
1 x 2-3 hour day with specific intervals.
2 x 2 hour days on TT bike, doing TT stuff.
I'm nowhere near the top of Elite A in Qld but can hold my own.
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Postby thearthurdog » Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:09 pm
Sure.Toolish wrote:Can I ask how you schedule those rides into a week? 4-6 hours Saturday and Sunday?
Mon 5am - 6am
Tue 4.30am - 7.30am
Wed 5am - 7am or 4.15pm - 6.15pm (depending on PM work committments)
Thu is same as Wed
Fri 5am - 6am
Sat 4.30am - 8.30am
Sun 4.30am - 8.30am / 9.30am / 10.30am
This is how I arrange things from April through to about October.
I'm lucky because the early starts don't bother me and my wife and kids tend to be busy doing lessons, classes, sport, whatever on Wed and Thu arvo.
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