In my previous post I mentioned that the Road Titans 300 Challenge consists of 3 days of riding 100 miles per day with 7,000 to 10,000 feet of elevation gain per day. With this in mind, I needed to design a training plan that would help Anthony not only get through the entire challenge but to conquer it with relative ease. With long endurance challenges like Road Titans it is not necessary to train the full distance of the event. You need to train enough so you can complete the event, but if you train too much you tend to arrive at the event tired and slow. Anthony carried some great fitness from his previous goals in the year, so I simply needed to top off his endurance for Titans. In years past the rides at Titans have taken about 6 hours to complete per day. Anthony works Monday through Friday, so I was able to give him short and intense workouts throughout the week and longer workouts on the weekends. Over the two months leading into the ride I had Anthony build up to completing two 5 hour rides in a row on the weekends. I also needed to make sure he could tolerate all the climbing, especially that monster Sassafrass. In order to meet these demands had Anthony build to riding two hours at tempo zone and eighty minutes at sweet spot at a low cadence. Over the final workouts leading into the event I had him perform some VO2 max sessions to top off his fitness.
Over the next couple posts I will talk about the nutritional aspects that helped Anthony complete his training, the fueling strategies we used throughout the event, and about the event itself. The event was faster this year than during any of the other years, perhaps it was from the strong winds of Hurricane Matthew or from the monster that flew in from the Pacific Northwest called Anthony.
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