Tired, empty, exhausted – there are many words to describe my feelings at the moment. My trainin camp here has been almost perfect if not perfect. So far no single rain drop, almost no cloudy skies and tough going. Now that we are leaving for Newport on Wednesday after 25ish days I can admit that the time here has been productive, no doubt about it.
Now though, it is time to reflect a bit backwards. Since the first ride on 18th December I have now gone through 31 structured training sessions and two more to go from steady paced rides to gym and from mountains to time trial. Some days have naturally been better than others, but ain't that just normal? Surprinsingly I've had only one or two bad days, and luckily one of them was on rest day. Happy days.
It all seems to come pretty well together and after a recovery week I expect supercompensation to occur to boost my training in Newport. At least I think that even during the training camp my form took steps forward – whilst I squatted my bests at gym, I still managed to climb somehow. Not to say that I've become more of a climber, not at all – I just happened to get up the hills by riding rather than walkin' with my bike. ;) I just know my limits better now, and on Monte Alto it was all too apparent. Luckily for me, there are no significant uphill struggles on velodrome and I'm quite confident that I can reach the upper banking easier than before...
Everyone isn't born with ability to climb.
The post analysis also tell their own story, and they're encouraging I reckon. Altho, I've only based my training here on heart rate zones and the wattages have only been checked afterwards. Still they've been fairly ok, which can be seen from this pic, que?
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Anyway I'd like to quote Tanja Poutiainen this time to sum up the training camp:
'Tästä on hyvä lähteä.'
'It is good to continue from here.'
And yeah, I had opportunity for a bit different riding aswell, sorry to all for not having helmet on...
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