colder and wiser wrote:
bigmig19 wrote:
But, in theory, if you are doing the training for your current VO2, wouldnt you generally expect your TT or race to not come down? Feels like you need to push that training a little to elevate to better race times. if you do it backwards (only training more/faster when you set a PR) you would never get better. You would be doing the same training for same PR over and over. Maybe the paces already have that woven in, I dont know. Its the one JD concept i cant wrap my mind around.
No, that's not how it works. When you introduce a physical stress followed by recovery, your body compensates by getting stronger than it needs to be to deal with the stress. It's the principle of supercompensation - basically, you run a mile at 7:00 pace, and a week later you can run at 6:55 pace (just for example, with much detail omitted). Or you lift 50 pounds, and a week later you can lift 55. Some people (I'm one) respond to training by running 3.1 or 6.2 or 13.1 or even 26.2 miles at a pace we've barely ever touched in training.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercompensation
That's an idealized model. In reality the weather conditions greatly affect the stress and the stimulus.
So you should pace yourself accordingly, training by feel and not train at some idealistic pace which is based on perfect weather conditions.