desert dude wrote:
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What I'm referring to is your erroneous notion that base is bullshit.
Here is what you do not understand. Everything you do contributes to your fitness. Intervals, long easy rides, climbing. Everything. It isn't like you can seperate out intervals and put them in one bucket. It all contributes to your fitness. All of it. It's all helping your base get bigger and deeper. That's what I was referring to when I said the old school notion of base is bull shit.
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Your fitness builds upon itself up to a point: a point/peak at which your body can no longer handle the intensity/volume. Do you add more intensity or volume because it's "adding to your base" or do you back it off and rebuild?
I said this before and I'll say this again. You are doing it wrong. If you manipulate intensity, frequency, duration and volume. you can build up for a very long time, much longer then you've suggested. You can peak for a race, then you can continue building to get even faster.
Once you understand how these factors interact with each other manipulating your training load to be at the peak of your fitness then grow it even more becomes easier to do.
most people do not understand how they can do that.
I can make a 185 mile week harder or easier then a 250 mile week by manipulating those variables.
My understanding seems to be fairly spot on.
I am not in any way, shape, or manner disagreeing with the concept of a baseline fitness level that is built through aerobic activity. I specifically used my own experience as an example to illustrate how one person's lifetime base can be so much higher than someone else's.
That "base" is NOT what the OP or myself or anyone other than you, really, are talking about. We're talking about a season's base period.
Okay, again,
I am not doing anything wrong. I haven't even spoken of my training so you have nothing to base your assertions on. There's no need.
I gave an example to directly counter your notion that it all adds to base. YOU specifically agreed me about in your example of peaking, rebuilding, and peaking again.
If the concept of a seasonal or aerobic base were bullshit and all racing and intensity merely added to that base, you would NOT have to back off and rebuild.
So basically, and for the umpteenth time, you're wrong. You've even agreed with most everything else I've said. For some reason this last bit alludes you, however.