Play Time is Over

Well play time is over. Since qualifying for RAAM, I have used the last month to taper and recover. The biggest training week this month was 9 ½ hours. It really seems like a vacation compared to the ramp up to the Great Glean 24 Hour Mountain Bike Race and the Adirondack 540, which included 20 – 30 hour weeks.

This Sunday, October 15th it all starts again. I have put together a periodized training program, designed to peak in 34 weeks, just in time for the Race Across America on June 10th, 2007.

This year’s program follows the same structure as last year, but it is based on a 900 hour year, verses a 700 hour year last year. Once again, my training will focus on long weekend rides. During the 16 weeks of base building, it will be centered on 2 long weekend rides. Then I will switch to 3 consecutive long rides (every other week.) Each cycle, the rides will get longer until a month before RAMM, when in culminates with 3 consecutive 300 mile rides.

I am hoping that these 3 day mini RAAMs will give crew members (and me) a chance to practice some of the skills and jobs they will need to perform during the big show. Hopefully we can work out some of the kinks before we get to the starting line.

The remaining training hours will focus on speed, strength, hill intervals and recovery. Here is a graph showing the breakdown of training hours over the next 34 weeks.

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