It's a Base of two halves
27 long rides! Just before Christmas I wrote a blog summarising the first half of my Base period for the 2021/22 season. This blog post will roundup my training for the second half, from late December 2021 to early March 2022. The plan for the second half of Base was much the same as the first half - lots of volume with two hard rides and two long rides per week. The Crash In early January I hit a cyclist trench in Haxted, rugby tackled the road and came off second best. The damage to the bike was extensive and expensive. Fortunately, the damage to my body was mostly aesthetic. The crash happened on the Sunday of the second week of a block, so I moved my recovery week forward one week and cracked on with training after that. Lifting Like the on-the-bike training, lifting had been going really well prior to the crash. Resuming lifting was not so straightforward. My left shoulder took the bulk of the impact so I was a bit limited as to what I could do without making things worse. I di