If you give a man a bow and arrow and tell him: “Shoot”, his first question would probably be: “At what?”
When there’s no target, there is no purpose to shooting. He could just shoot the arrow anywhere, and wherever the arrow ends up would be wherever the arrow ends up: no target, no direction, and no purpose. He wouldn’t be a very good archer.
This is the ‘headless chicken’ phenomenon I began this series with: too many cyclists ‘just training’ with no target, no direction and no purpose.
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On the other hand, if you gave the archer a target and challenged him to hit the bullseye, then everything changes. You have now given him something to aim at; something to challenge his skills against; something to measure his progress with, and something that gives purpose to his investment of effort, time and money.
All this by adding a simple target.
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Setting targets
What is periodisation?
Mapping out the macro plan for real-life cyclists
Now for the macro plan
Flipping the base period on its head
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