Good time of the year to...

…ask yourself if your training for the winter months is better than that of your competition. Are they training more, less or the same as you? Are they striking smarter than you? More training can be good or bad but smart training pays off. This is the toughest time of the year on my schedule for training. Once the season kicks in, the weekly races along with another day or two of intervals is all it takes. The real work is in building power over the winter months not to a peak but to a new plateau. I want all of my zones to creep up each year so that what used to be tempo is now upper endurance, steady state power is not what tt power used to be and tt power is un uncharted territory. Harder to do as you get older but I'm not close to conceding in gaining power.