The first episode of our new YouTube series follows Reuben, XCOMTB.COM’s owner training to race the final round of the Swiss Bike Cup in Crans Montana in September. After working most weekends last year I only managed 100 hrs on the bike. With a new lease of motivation, I am going to work as hard as I can to be as fit as possible come the 21st of September! Join me on my journey – Please like & subscribe it helps massively!
Max from Real Endurance Coaching will be setting our training to make sure I maximise the time I have to train.
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[Applause] With the help of Max and real urance coaching I’ll will be racing the final round of the Swiss Spike Cup in September in crans Montana after having the worst year on the bike last year due to work in most weekends we will have to maximize the time during the week
The plan goes like this train consistently as set out by Max and real endurance cing use the national XC Series in the UK as training races Tong and Doby will provide for technical sections and tough climbs to simulate crans Montana get on top of nutrition to fuel
The body and Aid recovery I will be using TP products during my training to Aid recovery and fuel correctly work on descending speeds on hard tail this is needed due to the technical nature of the course in CR Montana bike set up for the technical
Course I’m going to have to add a drop of purse and voria tire inserts to help protect myself against punctures during the race I will be using Victoria tires mainly the Bowser on the front and the Mescal on the back hi I’m Max and real endurance coaching we really excited to be
Sponsoring the series and helping Reuben with his challenge this year the first block starts with some baseline power testing to ensure accurate numbers to train from as well as a data point to track throughout the year to ensure constant improvements we’re using this initial block to build up Ruben’s based
Fitness as well as sustainable and threshold power we’re fitting around his busy work schedule we’re doing this through a mixture of weekday turbo sessions and weekend endurance rides this block ends with Ruben’s first race of the year which though only a c race will give us chance to evaluate
Strengths and areas to improve over the next block as well as testing out a new warm up and pre-race ride before the season really kicks off we’re looking forward to being part of Ruben’s Journey this year I have undertaken my b side FTP test which came back with a low 150
Watts it is very low but we hope to make big gains each month we are here at the first of the season the can’t Cho win the classic we’re not expecting much but we’re going to give it a good Go The race went well it was good to get back racing after a long time off I came forth which was a surprise so we’re just going to keep Building from here and
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You'd go much better on a full suss 120mm travel, with dropper.
If you're budget can't stretch that far surly some bike shop will help sponsor you.