What's the best training for weekend warriers?
No racing aspirations here. Simply trying to build up endurance and,
with luck, speed. Like most folks, I'm largely limited to weekends for training. This past year, I've sometimes managed to fit in about 4 miles of rollerskiing in the evenings, but it gets fairly dark and, even with a headlight, I don't go very fast, which ends up being mostly a balance exercise. I thow in some single-sticking for poling strenght though. Now about the weekends: I used to do an hour in the morning, an hour in the afternoon of even-paced, flat-terrain (that's what we got here in central NJ unless you drive some place for hills). This was clearly inadequate when snow time came and I found myself spending the better part of the day on skis in fairly hilly terrain. This past year, I doubled the morning mileage from about 7k to 14k, with an odd afternoon of 20k and really felt the difference on snow Christmas week (not here in NJ - in Quebec). My climbing still stinks though. When I do drive about 30 min to a hill, I find that it also helps somewhat. So, all this is good stuff, the problem is that I only have a weekend to cram it in, and it ain't pretty. For example, yesterday (Saturday) I did my morning 14k and then the hill. This morning, I didn't feel gung-ho at all (after that hill) and only did half of my usual morning routine. So I guess my question is what and how much should I do on weekends without killing myself but still making some progress? I'm sure many others have the same constraints to work around. Thanks! |
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