Can anyone recommend a ready made training plan for a 59 year old with basic cycling fitness that will help me train for We Ride Flanders, this will be my 5th time I’ve done the event. I’ve just completed a 12 week plan with Systm to get my fitness back to the basic level which included yoga and strength. Ideally I could do with something that maintains my endurance but with the capacity to tackle the short sharp climbs.
We live parallel lives so it seems, even though I’m a bit younger.
I’m in my rest week after a 12 week All purpose road plan. I have the 4 week Mountain goat plan added from next week onwards. This is still an older plan which I added from the old app. You can add this one if it fits your needs, otherwise I’d go for:
Event Prep > Road > Mountaneous Fondo
My outdoor season is starting end of February with the start of the cyclo’s. I’ll just ride the different ‘a week with…’ series to fill the gaps till RVV.
Would you both care to keep this thread going please? The RVV sportive is on the list for 2023, so very interested to know what training you put in and how that translated into the big day.
For short, sharp climbs then doing some work especially on MAP if they’re around the 5ish min mark or AC if they’re 1-2min would be beneficial. Including some outdoor endurance work at the weekends will be good for keeping the endurance up. Additionally the MAP work will help increase the aerobic ceiling so that other aerobic measures such as LT1, FTP or CP can be improved as well which will be beneficial for the longer duration events.
If you want some further info you can book a call with a coach and we can also do customised training plans on request if you require a more personalised plan on SYSTM (they’re no longer on the website but we can offer this service to those interested)
What a coincidence. Thanks for the info. I’ve usually done a lot of outside miles, supported by Sufferfest videos, before going out to Oudenaarde. However this year I’ll struggle to put the quantity of base miles in. There’s something quite masochistically addictive about the cobbles, but this time will be my last taking part. I’ll still be going over to watch the pros in years to come as it’s become a bit of a ritual for the group I’m in. There’s nothing like the RvV!
Thanks Andy. I’ll look out for the MAP workouts. I’m not sure AC would be suitable for my style of riding (I’m a bit of a diesel and my 4DP shows me as a rouleur) Thanks as well for the link to call a coach.