Liaman wrote:
You haven't stated how much (if any) cycling you're going to do over the winter. I certainly wouldn't recommend dropping to zero - some easy riding can keep the cycling muscles ticking over and wouldn't be counter productive to a run focus. Something like a 2x20 every two weeks would really reduce loss of bike fitness, and shouldn't have a big impact on your running progression.
Hi - I probably wasnt quite clear on that. I plan on doing one 2x20 session every week. I just started doing these 2 weeks ago - I do them at around 95 % of FTP. Other then that, I ride 45min every day to/from work. This is mostly easy riding, but I do have 200m elevation gain every day so I still have to put a few watts down the pedals:) In total - this gives me around 5hrs on the bike every week ( 4 hrs quite easy and 1 hrs hard).