{"id":74,"date":"2008-12-30T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-12-30T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T12:02:11","slug":"challenge-barcelona-in-less-than-5-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Barcelona in less than 5 months!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Christmas has passed and 2009 is only a handful of days away. My first major race (a 70.3 distance race) of 2009 is less than five months away. Not too bad one might say &#8211; however I will need to actually be training for more than a 70.3 at that time of the year. Initially this race was scheduled for early May, however due to a clash with the Barcelona F1 race it was delayed by two weeks. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>So my bike has been fitted with an SRM power meter. I plan on using power based zones for my training sessions leading up to Ironman Austria. I hope that this will be better than simply relying on heart rate based zones. The SRM is great in that it hooks up to the Garmin 705 using ANT+ wireless technology. I am yet to get out and about with the SRM and get some &#8220;outside&#8221; figures but have done some sessions on the trainer. I am starting to get an idea of my mean maximal power. I have attached a graph from WKO+ showing the power curve from a handful of efforts on the indoor trainer. Not very impressive at all.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a starting point though and I look forward to it improving over the coming months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78\" style=\"width: 629px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78\" title=\"Mean Maximal Power 2008\/12\/30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/maxpower20081230.gif\" alt=\"Mean Maximal Power 2008\/12\/30\" width=\"629\" height=\"445\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mean Maximal Power 2008\/12\/30<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I hope some outdoor sessions will improve this, especially in the 1-10 second region. Looking at the W\/kg table in WKO+ (based from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Training-Racing-Power-Meter-Hunter\/dp\/1931382794\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1230638046&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Training and Racing with a Power Meter by Allen and Coggan<\/a> ISBN13: 978-1931382793) is interesting and shows I have a long way to go to becoming a competitive cyclist. One consolation is that the table is for competitive cyclists and not triathletes. OK OK, grasping at straws but you get the picture.\u00a0 <em>Training and Racing with a Power Meter<\/em> is a superb book and covers power meter usage in great detail.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in a previous post, I am still recovering from a bought of flu and am taking it easy right now. Hopefully next week I will kick into action again and start the training ball rolling once more. Hopefully 2009 will be a great year and one in which I am not dogged by colds, flu or any other injuries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Christmas has passed and 2009 is only a handful of days away. My first major race (a 70.3 distance race) of 2009 is less than five months away. Not too bad one might say &#8211; however I will need to actually be training for more than a 70.3 at that time of the year. 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