Are you new to bike road racing?

The training plans will be helpful if they are specific to road racing.

However, nothing will better prepare you for road racing, than racing itself. The key reason is that many things are beyond your control in racing. Like when you go hard - when the group starts to go, you may be going hard for 20 sec, 2 minutes or 20 minutes! Ditto for recovery - you never know how long until you have to take it to the red line again! This can be an eye opener.

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

Trainerroad is a veritable goldmine of training information. Especially their training plans, if you stick to them, which is a problem for a lot of folks. If you read the instructions for a lot of the workouts, they'll tell you how to do them outside. Also, it's not that hard to mimic the structured workout with heartrate and a garmin if you don't have a Power-meter.

No, I've done a few races, plus our local CC weekly league races. Yep, racing is great training, especially for bike racing. But I've generally done my bike racing off my triathlon training, so looking for something out there without going for the TrainingPeaks plans etc.