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2026-11-13

Drive to Boulder

  • Id: 2026-11-13-drive-to-boulder
  • Title: Drive to Boulder
  • Kind: travel
  • Discipline: travel
  • Surface: off-bike
  • Priority: informational
  • Planned time: unscheduled
  • Duration: variable
  • Location: From the training base to Boulder, CO
  • TrainingPeaks ID: 99407104

Objective

Travel without adding stress or losing fuelling and hydration.

Goal

Arrive in time to pre-ride, fed and hydrated.

Reasoning

Changed Oct 26: Sidney arrives in Boulder in time for Friday's pre-ride, after two or three nights at the training base.

Event details

  • Drive to Boulder in time for the pre-ride, with an hour to settle before riding.
  • Boulder is at about 1,650 m: drink more than usual from arrival. The air is dry.

Constraints

  • A proper breakfast before you leave, and keep drinking on the way. The pre-ride is kept to about an hour.

Course pre-ride with skills and openers

  • Id: 2026-11-13-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: 1:00
  • Intensity: course skills, openers
  • Location: Boulder, CO
  • TrainingPeaks ID: 3968330247

Objective

Learn the Boulder Cup 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 25: two final-corner sprints added, after the sprint finish at Major Taylor. Changed Oct 26: she drives in from the training base today, so it's kept to about an hour at altitude.

Workout plan

  • 10 min easy warm-up.
  • 20 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, the run-up, off-cambers, and the fastest exit from each corner.
  • 2 x 1 min at 260-286 W on course, 3 min easy between.
  • 2 starts on the start straight: 15 sec maximal from clipped in, 3 min easy between. Pick your line to the first corner.
  • 2 sprints out of the final corner to the line, at race speed, 3 min easy between. Pick the line and the gear you want on the last lap.
  • 5 min easy cool-down.

Structured workout

  • Primary intensity metric: percentOfFtp
  • Step: Warm-up, 10 min, 55-70, warmUp
  • Step: Course laps with skills practice, 20 min, 55-75, active
  • Repetition block: 2 reps
    • Step: Opener, 1 min, 100-110, active
    • Step: Recovery, 3 min, 50-60, rest
  • Repetition block: 2 reps
    • Step: Start from the grid (maximal), 15 sec, 150-300, active
    • Step: Recovery, 3 min, 50-60, rest
  • Repetition block: 2 reps
    • Step: Final-corner sprint (maximal), 10 sec, 150-300, active
    • Step: Recovery, 3 min, 50-60, rest
  • Step: Cool-down, 5 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 about an hour. Stop practising a section once it is clean; repetition past that is fatigue.
  • Set race tire pressures and check the pit bike today.

Notes

At about 1650 m, expect roughly 4-5% less power for the same effort. Pace by feel and heart rate early, not by sea-level numbers.