My July Zone 2 project metrics show a big decrease in volume at about 50% of volume in May and June. This is in part due to me having no more qualifiers for my big event in August. And having a break where I mostly ran and hiked rather than doing big cycling miles.
My Vo2Max is still not improved, although I’ve started to focus on this more in the last week. You can find more information on training plan here, and my goals and metrics here.
- My total cycling volume was at 557 Km’s. I did a 300km event in July. Like the long distance events in previous months, I needed 5 or 6 days to recover properly.
- I did over 90% of sessions at low intensity/Zone 2. I did increase this in the last week of July.
- My VO2Max dropped down to 45 on the Garmin (from 48). I’m putting this down to the big focus on low intensity and volume over the last two months. A really good learning here is that whilst I’ve massively improved aerobic capacity and fat oxidation, this has been at the cost of Vo2Max. I’m ok with this as the event I’m training for is a multi day endurance event. But it does give me something to think about in future.
- My Strength training didn’t happen at all in July. That’s far from ideal and shows that I need to be better organised to make sure I fit this into my schedule.
- My weight was maintained at around 94 Kg. No big changes on previous months.
July was in large about rest and having a bit of a change after I spent a lot of time on the bike in previous months. This was good, and I seemed to have maintained endurance fitness. I have been slack on high intensity and strength training. Hopefully this wont come back to bite me. I have two weeks to the big 1200km event. During this time I will mostly be taking it easy with low intensity training during that time.
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