Adding a week to my 12 week plan.

[sanders]

Lynda,

I hope you are well. I am currently doing the 40+ 5-7 day mtn bike stage race 12 wk plan. I must have inputted my finish date incorrectly for the April 10th start of the Pisgah Stage Race. Monday will start week 10 on my program with a plan finish date of April 1. I have an extra week of training time until the actual start on the 10th. Should I do the week 10 recovery as planned and then insert a prior, more demanding training week before continuing with the week 11 & 12 wind down? If so what week would you recommend inserting?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[Lynda]

Hi Sanders!

I am well – thx!!

I recommend repeating week 9 this week and then following on with weeks 10, 11, 12 in sequence to peak for Pisgah Stage race.

As Pisgah starts on a Tuesday and the plan has the race start on Sunday I recommend adding in a day off on Sunday (day 7) in week 12 and on Monday (day 1) week 12. Adding in these 2 extra recovery days will push your race start date forward by 2 days onto race start Tues 10th.

Lynda

[sanders]

Thanks!

Oh boy! Repeating week 9 will make for a big week this week. I had my mouth set for a recovery week this week. Time to suck it up!

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