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Miles and miles and miles; base training time once again

Well, after last year's sojourn in Lanzarote yielded such a stellar season, I've increased my planned
training a bit for this winter, with the hope of improving further. This time I will have the advantage
of not working full time, and hopefully will have decent enough conditions in New Zealand, where I
will be until April. I will have one major-ish race outing during this period, with the Karapoti on the
18th February, and so have allowed for this within the plan. Otherwise it's the same build and
recover programme that I have followed successfully before. So we'll see......

MONTH	WEEK	Aim (km)	Aim (hours)	Actual km	Actual hours
December	0			396	15:12
	1	300	11:06	178*	6:54*
	2	400	14:48	264*	10:09*
	3	500	18:30	234*	9:04*
	4	600	22:12	619	24:33
January	1	400	14:48	358	14:48
	2	650	24:06	606	22:21
	3	850	31:30	850	30:26
	4	400	14:48	412	16:08
February	1	700	25:54	595*	23:31*
	2	900	33:20	567	22:11
	3	300	11:06	306	13:35
	4	600	22:12	629	21:36
March	1	700	25:54	565	20:59
	2	800	29:36	565	21:07
	3	900	33:20	490	17:43
	4	1000	37:00	259	10:30
	5	300	11:06	394	18:04

* Fell at the first hurdle; picked up a bad cold though, so can't be helped.
* Freezing rain; couldn't safely go out, whadda ya gonna do?
* blah blah... weather... blah... delayed flight... blah... christmas... blah... girls... blah... excuses excuses.....
* Did a 75km MTB race, so less volume but greater intensity! (came 3rd btw)

Miles and miles and miles; base training time once again

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