First off, I'd like to say I'm not trying to call anyone out on something here. I'm just wondering if my perspective and expectations are off.
I took the plunge and signed up with a local, well respected coaching group. They have facilities and group rides/swims and it looks like a fabulous program. I also signed on with a coaching option. I decided to go with a coach for the first time because of a couple of reasons. My time is very limited and working with a coach should toss out any "junk" training that I would create for myself. Secondly, I'm coming back from a major injury and was looking for some guidence to keep that in perspective in my training plan. I've never had a bad injury before, and wanted a some guidence in that regard as well. Lastly, I haven't done crap since Moo 04 so it's a bit of a rebuild.
I've been disappointed thus far. It's only been two weeks, but for my first week, I received my training plan for the week at 10PM on a Tuesday night. This plan went thru the following Monday. This week, I didn't get my training plan until 10:30PM Monday night. A majority of the workouts are exactly what I've been doing which I suppose is fine. But here is where my questions/worries exist.
First, he talked about the importance of a proper bike fit. On the phone he said he would look at his schedule and we would get together Wednesday or Thursday and he'd let me know what works and touch base. I sent a follow up Wednesday afternoon on this and heard nothing back. Secondly, my saturday says, "Group Ride". No time, no distance. This group has two rides planned for Saturday. Both are very specific (very long ride for IM-WI/IM-Canada peeps), or 50K Team TT practice. I'm training for Beach2Battleship, so I could do a portion of the long ride for steady state work or the team TT for interval work with some SS after. So that's the question I sent along with the bike fit follow up on Wednesday. Nothing. So I sent a follow up email on Thursday morning asking for a reply about the Saturday ride by Thursday night so that I can get things coordinated at home for the weekend. Again, nothing in response.
Are these legit concerns? At this point I kinda feel like my schedule is being phoned in here in fire and forget mode. There are a lot of elite athletes in this group and I'm not one of them. Does that matter? I'm not looking to get my ego stroked or hand held, I'm just looking to train smarter than I think I have been.
Since this is a group of coaches, I've been told that I can email the head of this group if I have any questions or concerns. I don't want to feel like a pansy narc or anything, especially since it's only been two weeks.
Any thoughts from you folks?
Thanks!
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Breakfast is for Closers
I took the plunge and signed up with a local, well respected coaching group. They have facilities and group rides/swims and it looks like a fabulous program. I also signed on with a coaching option. I decided to go with a coach for the first time because of a couple of reasons. My time is very limited and working with a coach should toss out any "junk" training that I would create for myself. Secondly, I'm coming back from a major injury and was looking for some guidence to keep that in perspective in my training plan. I've never had a bad injury before, and wanted a some guidence in that regard as well. Lastly, I haven't done crap since Moo 04 so it's a bit of a rebuild.
I've been disappointed thus far. It's only been two weeks, but for my first week, I received my training plan for the week at 10PM on a Tuesday night. This plan went thru the following Monday. This week, I didn't get my training plan until 10:30PM Monday night. A majority of the workouts are exactly what I've been doing which I suppose is fine. But here is where my questions/worries exist.
First, he talked about the importance of a proper bike fit. On the phone he said he would look at his schedule and we would get together Wednesday or Thursday and he'd let me know what works and touch base. I sent a follow up Wednesday afternoon on this and heard nothing back. Secondly, my saturday says, "Group Ride". No time, no distance. This group has two rides planned for Saturday. Both are very specific (very long ride for IM-WI/IM-Canada peeps), or 50K Team TT practice. I'm training for Beach2Battleship, so I could do a portion of the long ride for steady state work or the team TT for interval work with some SS after. So that's the question I sent along with the bike fit follow up on Wednesday. Nothing. So I sent a follow up email on Thursday morning asking for a reply about the Saturday ride by Thursday night so that I can get things coordinated at home for the weekend. Again, nothing in response.
Are these legit concerns? At this point I kinda feel like my schedule is being phoned in here in fire and forget mode. There are a lot of elite athletes in this group and I'm not one of them. Does that matter? I'm not looking to get my ego stroked or hand held, I'm just looking to train smarter than I think I have been.
Since this is a group of coaches, I've been told that I can email the head of this group if I have any questions or concerns. I don't want to feel like a pansy narc or anything, especially since it's only been two weeks.
Any thoughts from you folks?
Thanks!
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Breakfast is for Closers