There are a lot a blogs about cycling, triathlon, nutrition and health. Why do we need another one?
I’ve read a lot of them, looking for the secret sauce that will make a person (me) with a Vo2Max in the 50’s (totally guessing here) cycling, swim or run like a Mark Allen. But I’m realizing that there isn’t a secret sauce. Some folks have inherited a lot of great genes from their parental units, but this site is for folks who’s FTP isn’t 395 and have to manage cycling with kids, jobs and mortgages.
So my parameters are these:
- – I have 8 hours a week
- – 8 hours includes commute to/from
- – I’m interested in sustainable protocols, meaning that they turn into lifestyle patterns instead tricks that are soon forgotten
- – I’m starting from a base of average cycling, below average running and swimming
- – Long term health, minimizing stress, good mood, the ability to be a great father and husband and hold a job are critical
- – I’m open to using technology to hack results, but I can’t convince myself that I need to mortgage my house for a computrainer or SRM.
Mind you that I’m not a trained doctor, physio or wellness pro, rather I’m an engineer (with a mortgage and two young kids) working in Silicon Valley with a curiosity about how to get better in the most efficient way possible. These are my experiments to see if it’s possible to take a normal working dude with 8 hours a week and turn him into a front of the pack cyclist – while balance the most important things in his life – family and business.
The term basemiles comes from long distance endurance running and cycling training. In a nutshell, it means that unless you build a strong ‘base’ of fitness, any advances that you make will be built on a fragile house of cards. I use it as a bit of sarcasm, I wish that I had 25 hours a week for Long Slow Distance L1,L2 rides but that’s not my life.
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