This 5-week training plan is meticulously crafted to prepare you for criterium racing by enhancing your speed, power, and race-specific skills. Each week is structured with a blend of high-intensity intervals, endurance rides, and essential recovery sessions, ensuring a comprehensive approach to your training.
The plan emphasizes progressive overload to gradually build your fitness, incorporating key elements like VO2 max workouts to boost your aerobic capacity, threshold intervals to enhance your sustained power, and sprint sessions to sharpen your explosive speed. By simulating race scenarios, you'll develop the tactical skills and mental fortitude needed to excel in the dynamic and fast-paced environment of criterium racing.
Sample workouts are provided to give you a clear understanding of the intensity and structure of each session, allowing you to train with confidence and precision. Whether you’re a seasoned racer looking to fine-tune your performance or a newcomer aiming to tackle your first criterium, this plan will equip you with the tools and conditioning necessary to compete at your best.
Stay committed, follow the plan, and by the end of these 5 weeks, you’ll be primed and ready to hit the criterium circuit with peak fitness.
I am a highly motivated & number oriented cycling coach from San Diego, CA. I specialize in training junior and amateur athletes with personalized training plans. With over 20 years of racing experience in various categories, multiple coaching licenses, certifications, and continuing education.
Some of my trained-athletes achievements include:
- 2019 15-16 CA State Champion
- 2019 Women 30-39 CA Series Champion
- 2018 Rim Nordic Series Champion on Expert M 30-39, Sports W 30-39, Beginner W 30-39