‘Monday will be a whole new me’: How not to stick to a training plan

It seems incredible that in a long racing career no one ever asked me to do one of those “My Week in Training” features. It’s not as if my career was a total disaster – I fluked a few wins here and there. It’s not as if I didn’t train. It’s not as if no one had my phone number. It’s not as if I’d said no to such a request – it would have been a valuable opportunity to spread disinformation to my rivals. (“I spend an hour every day on the rollers pedalling backwards,” was a decoy I always planned to deploy.)

So anyway, better late than never, I thought. Here’s the training that I did last week, in an important pre-season training block. I have no particular long term or short term racing targets, and the weather wasn’t great.