THAT'S NOT NORMAL.
WHAT'S YOUR NORMAL TRAINING WEEK? 5 hours, 10, 15, 20? Or do you measure miles? 100, 200, 300, 400? Before I took off to surf in Mexico for a week, I put in 18 hrs, 226 miles, 22,223' of elevation...
... it was my highest fitness of 2022.
By that I mean Strava gave me a fitness score of 134. The highest I've ever seen was last summer's 136.
I used that fitness to snag 3rd at last summer's Leadville Stage Race and qualify for the Silver corral.
In August, I let it drop.
I was tired.
Most of the Fall my fitness was in the 90-100 range.
In December, I started to get into the 110 range with the idea of building for the early season races. But, I got the 'rona on NYE and had to start all over which delayed my peak about a month.
There's normal training, like what I was doing in the fall.
Staying fit.
Having fun.
Squeezing in other activities like hiking and surfing and paddle.
The only way to increase our fitness is to increase our normal.
Up the volume.
Get specific.
Squeezing in more time in the saddle, with faster riders who push us.
Our minds for sure, and possibly our friends and family, will be on to us. They might even say things like...
... That's too hard.
Here we must battle our mind, slough it off, telling it...
... No, this is normal.
Ideally, you've got a good training crew. This means we're all pushing each other to reach our goals. We are also drafting off each other's energy and commitment...
... an upward spiral to a new normal.
There's one more thing.
Specificity.
If our A race is a crit, we better be doing speed work and sprints. An MTB race, we better be on the mtb riding technically challenging courses. We can be good at a lot of things...
... we can be great at one.
It's not normal to be great.
Don't be normal.
Be great.
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