This year I hired a coach with an eye on doing well at a few events.
I’ve been racing since college, and have written and edited countless training columns, plus talked at length with pro riders, physiologists and coaches over the years when I covered pro racing. All that to say, I think I've got a decent handle on how to train. But this year I finally took my own advice and got some pro coaching help with Frank Overton of FasCat Coaching. Here's what I learned.
1. Impartial reasoning is better than emotional decisions
Even if you know quite a bit (which I don't), you aren't necessarily the best judge of matters involving your own body, mind or ego.
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"Okay, this was junk. Here’s why."
As I've done in the past, I bought a year's subscription to TrainingPeaks to upload and track my power-based data. This year, though, Frank would prescribe specific training based on my goals and the type of training I was already doing, then monitor whether or not I was sticking to the plan on the micro and macro levels, chiming in with commentary like the above.
He's called me out for doing too much on recovery rides and racking up junk miles — pedaling around too easily to reap training benefit — on what were supposed to be more rigorous days. The funny part is that I have given friends grief in person and on Strava for the same thing, yet I was obviously guilty myself.
2. Make easy days easy, and hard days hard
3. Fun riding and training can be compatible. Sometimes
- Monday – easy or off
- Tuesday – hard group ride
- Wednesday – long
- Thursday – fun group ride
- Friday – short
- Saturday – race or big ride
- Sunday – easy or off
4. It’s cool — and more accurate — to have a pro guide you
5. Lo and behold, it works
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