#319: Your training plan was written for nowhere

<p>Most training plans are written for nobody, for nowhere. Download one for a big gravel race and it&#39;ll build the basic physiology of cycling, but it won&#39;t tell you what to do seven hours in when you&#39;re sick of gels, or how to descend loose terrain on hands that have stopped working. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Rob Foster breaks down how to build a cycling plan that&#39;s actually specific: to the event, to the rider, and to the environment they train in. He covers why the gut is a trainable weapon and why you start now rather than January, how to manufacture real fatigue on eight hours a week using long weekends, stair repeats and a hard Friday after a hard week at work, and what a coach needs to earn before they can send an athlete into one of those weeks.</p><p><br></p><p>If you&#39;re riding towards something big next spring, this is the conversation to hear in September, not February.</p>