Anyway, climbing a long hill last week - I started well - but ran out of puff towards the end. Legs were fine - they just weren't receiving enough fuel and went to jelly before the top.
I resolved to do some interval training to improve this deficiency.
Plan - do a couple of short intervals - very intense - that work me up into that same state of oxygen debt and leg weakness - during a short bike ride, once a week.
First session was tonight:
- 15 min warm up
- First interval - 2min 46sec/1.57km
- 12 min recovery riding
- Second interval - 2min 36sec/1.71km
- 10min ride home/warm down
Analysis - went well - managed to really push myself into a difficult place! Time will tell if its worked - I have had difficulty in the past with interval training sending me into over-training very easily...
Baseline - about 2 weeks ago I managed a good hill climb and recorded my best ever performance - 8 min and 20 sec. I'm going to do 3 weeks of intervals and then lets see if I can improve on that?
If all goes well I'll be blasting up hills on my favourite end of season sportive - the Autumn Epic.
If all goes well I'll be blasting up hills on my favourite end of season sportive - the Autumn Epic.