The reason behind virtual Team Time Trials
With 2020 being a year of struggle for all...the Covid Pandemic has all but cancelled-out the cycling season, with no trips away, no racing except for a few Roadmans t.t.'s in August and September!
Indoor training has increased two-fold with turbo trainers selling out in almost every cycling retail and on
line shops.
Luckily i managed to acquire a set of Elite Nero Interactive Rollers and Direto Turbo to enable myself to continue my training in a varied and motivational way.
Recently i teamed up with 5 riders...2 from Denmark, Mads Schnoor Nelson & Nikolaj Larson and 2 from the UK, John Summut, KaderAlouni, to ride a virtual Team Time Trial series on the RGT platform. Made up of teams from around the World competing over a varied distance and terrain, the racing has been fast and hard!
Why do this>>>
With the outdoor season being shortened by over 6 months, this allowed me to work outside the norm for this time of year...it enables the body to work in zones which is very difficult outdoors with the adverse weather. It's very important as one ages to work in the upper zones of the system, to encourage respiratory exchange, maintaining lung strength and above all 'spike' the muscular system aside the usual riding in the Aerobic/ Endurance zone!
The result is that you are able to cross-train, 'shock' the system into variable training adaptions, thus not losing all the gains from prior Covid racing/training, which only gets harder to retrieve the older one gets!
*** So in nutshell... Mixing Aerobic Zone 2 base riding with at least 1 day of Tempo Zone3/4 and 1 day of Anerobic Zone 4-7 will encourage muscular adaptions and increase in FTP and VO2 ***
Note...Free movement, core, resistance and functional strength off the bike plays an integral part of my training!
