The Cyclocross Workout Of The Day for Thursday, 11.17.16. “Not quite Friday yet…”
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As you’ve probably noticed, there’s been a “begging for money” bit attached to the beginning of this page for a couple of weeks now.
I’d like to thank everyone who has chipped in this season – and the past couple of seasons – when I’ve asked you to. It’s made a difference.
How much of a difference?
Well, let’s put it this way; the small donations from you folks have kept the lights on on this page.
There’s a certain (small) amount of money that has to come out of my pocket to pay for this page, and there’s a certain (larger) amount of money that, as a self-employed person, I need to write off based on the time spent on writing, posting, and – yes – giving training advice away that other people charge for.
So, once again, thanks to those who have contributed.
As much as I hate to say it, though, the contributions this season are way down compared to the last two years, and I don’t know if I can keep this going unless more people contribute.
Yeah. That sucks. I hate to have to write it, but I just looked at my bank balance, and the bills sitting on my desk, and the paying work that I’m putting off while I sit here writing this, and… well… crap.
So, that’s where we’re at.
I don’t know what the future of the CXWOTD looks like. Maybe there’s a paywall, maybe I try to pursue some corporate sponsorship, maybe I just bag the whole thing, maybe I scale things down and post less often… heck, maybe I just decide that I don’t care what the numbers say, and keep going anyways.
I dunno.
Nothing is going to happen in the short term. At minimum, I’m going to play things out through the end of this season before making any decisions.
Just wanted to let ya’all know what was what.
Thanks!
Now how about a workout?
Thursday! Yay!
If you’re racing on Saturday, think about taking it easy today. For a lot of folks, the season is winding down pretty quickly, and the small benefit you might get from pushing it in your training is outweighed by the extra recovery.
Or not.
Frankly, I don’t know enough about you, specifically, to tell you which way you should go, but at this point in the year, you’re either pushing hard or you’re trying to grab extra rest whenever you can. I’ve got clients on both sides of the fence. Pretty much the one thing you don’t want to do is half-assed training that’s neither pushing the envelope nor actually recovering.
So, day off or day on. Really on.
Really on,like…
The 3×10++
Warm up, spinning on the trainer until you’re ready to lay down some watts.
When you’re warmed up, immediately embark upon one 10 minute interval, ridden like a 2×20.
Immediately upon finishing the ten minute interval, sprint hard for 10 seconds.
Recover for one minute.
Do it again.
Repeat for a total of five sprints, then immediately begin another 10 minute interval.
As soon as you finish that, another sprint set, same as before.
You’re going to do a total of 3 ten-minute intervals and 3 sprint sets. Only rest periods are the 1-minute breaks between the sprints.
Yeah, that makes this pretty damn hard.
Spin out your legs afterwards, then mop up the puddle of sweat under the trainer.
Enjoy!
M
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