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2026-10-23

Drive to Indianapolis

  • Id: 2026-10-23-drive-to-indianapolis
  • Title: Drive to Indianapolis
  • Kind: travel
  • Discipline: travel
  • Surface: off-bike
  • Priority: informational
  • Planned time: unscheduled
  • Duration: variable
  • Location: Michigan to Indianapolis, IN
  • TrainingPeaks ID: 99020933

Objective

Travel without adding stress or losing fuelling and hydration.

Goal

Arrive ready to pre-ride on schedule.

Reasoning

Changed Oct 15, corrected Oct 21: Sidney drives from Michigan on Friday morning, about 4-4.5 hours.

Event details

  • Drive from Michigan to Indianapolis in the morning, about 4-4.5 hours, in time for the course pre-ride.
  • Pack GF/DF food and bottles for the drive.

Constraints

  • Leave by about 8 am. Eat a carbohydrate-rich breakfast before you leave, and stop once or twice to walk for a few minutes.

Course pre-ride with skills and openers

  • Id: 2026-10-23-course-pre-ride-with-skills-and-openers
  • Title: Course pre-ride with skills and openers
  • Kind: workout
  • Discipline: bike
  • Surface: cx
  • Priority: key
  • Planned time: unscheduled
  • Duration: 1:10-1:20
  • Intensity: course skills, openers
  • Location: Indianapolis, IN
  • TrainingPeaks ID: 3968330167

Objective

Learn the Major Taylor course at race speed and open the legs for Saturday.

Goal

Know every line, dismount and run-up before the start, and arrive on the grid sharp, not tired.

Reasoning

Friday is pre-ride day and skills practice happens on the real course. Changed Oct 15: Sidney drives from Michigan this morning, about 4-4.5 hours.

Workout plan

  • 15 min easy warm-up.
  • 30 min of course laps with skills practice: first lap easy to learn it, then the key sections at race speed in short bursts. Dismounts and remounts, barriers, run-ups, off-cambers, sand or mud, and the fastest exit from each corner.
  • 3 x 1 min at 260-286 W on course, 3 min easy between.
  • 3 starts on the start straight: 15 sec maximal from clipped in, 3 min easy between. Pick your line to the first corner.
  • 10 min easy cool-down.

Structured workout

  • Primary intensity metric: percentOfFtp
  • Step: Warm-up, 15 min, 55-70, warmUp
  • Step: Course laps with skills practice, 30 min, 55-75, active
  • Repetition block: 3 reps
    • Step: Opener, 1 min, 100-110, active
    • Step: Recovery, 3 min, 50-60, rest
  • Repetition block: 3 reps
    • Step: Start from the grid (maximal), 15 sec, 150-300, active
    • Step: Recovery, 3 min, 50-60, rest
  • Step: Cool-down, 10 min, 50-60, coolDown

Fuelling

40-60 g/hr on the bike. Dinner tonight: familiar, carbohydrate-rich, low fibre, GF/DF. Extra fluid with electrolytes.

Constraints

  • Total time on the bike under 1:20. Stop practising a section once it is clean; repetition past that is fatigue.
  • Set race tire pressures and check the pit bike today.
  • Morning drive from Michigan, about 4-4.5 hours: leave by about 8 am, eat a carbohydrate-rich breakfast before you leave, and take snacks and fluid for the road. If the drive runs late, cut the course laps short, not the openers.
  • The 3 x 1 min openers are part of the job: hit 260-286 W. In Roanoke the best minute on Friday was 254 W, and Saturday's legs were not open.

Notes

Major Taylor is raced for UCI points. The build block should be landing now; this weekend shows it.