Santa Fe Century Training Plan - Steve Griego
Training Plan February
At this time of the year incorporating thirty minutes or so, intervals and climbing, during regular scheduled rides couple times a week helps acclimate the body to training efforts. As conditioning improves, we will join the Santa Fe Road Riders Saturday and or Sunday B group rides for endurance efforts. Again, regardless of the scheduled SFRR route, I always plan appropriate re-groups and bail out options for less conditioned riders.
About mid-February I start wearing my simple $50 calorie and heart monitor. The people I have helped complete successful centuries so as not to end up in intensive care afterwards or destroying their immune systems have learned to monitor their calories burned and re-fuel accordingly during rides regardless of perceived effort, headwind, cadence, bicycle weight, tire rolling resistance, martial status, or religion. The calorie monitor helps establish one's metabolism rate on a bike. Cyclists need a documented base line in order to efficiently increase training to the next level. Some people burn three hundred calories and others burn more than seven hundred calories in an hour of cycling. Monitoring those calories allows us to hydrate and take nutrition appropriately.
Another successful training choice is to sign up with an on-line coach for thirty bucks or so a month. An older racing buddy and his wife used this method successfully for a couple years earning between them over a dozen state championships. Training schedules and results are emailed weekly between coach and athlete using ride information from the calorie and heart rate monitors.
The following articles are good variations on a theme. Information is reputable; however, we seniors MUST adjust regimen accordingly. Important for us older folk to remember our flexibility and especially joint health is key to improving and maintaining our condition, so those of us older than fifty, do not necessarily benefit from spinning a million rpm.
Santa Fe Century, or fifty mile, or twenty-five mile leg is four months out, May 20th. Perfect time to start preparing.
Grandpa and grandson at the end of Denver's Deer Creek Challenge in August. The young fellow wanted to complete his first century before being inducted into the air force, so we entered the hardest event in the U.S. with 12,725 feet climbing. He burned 8,000 calories, grandpa about 5,000. Eight hours saddle time not counting appropriate nutrition stops and a serious rain storm where about a hundred of us huddled like penguins under the forth food stop tents. Probably five hours climbing. Did I mention there were lots of hills? 
Posted by Ian at 1/25/2012 7:35 PM 
Categories: Colorado, SOB's, Santa Fe, Cycling, New Mexico, Recent News
Categories: Colorado, SOB's, Santa Fe, Cycling, New Mexico, Recent News
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