My new training-mate: Garmin Edge 705
So that's my new training-mate, my Garmin Edge 705. After many discussions with my mother, we taken the decision to purchase it on chainreaction. I explained to her, than always training alone with just heartrate data can be so boring and the Garmin could give me more data to adjust my training during the season. I also told her than it could be a big help for us when we go on races to find the place of

Winter Training: Base 1 Period
Today I have finished my preparation period. After 2 weeks of it, I can say than I'm ready for serious winter training. I feel strongest than every years before (@ the same period). So next week, I'll start the base 1 period of my winter

Preparation Period and Stability Ball
So after Transition period (shortened), I start preparation period now for 2 weeks. During this period, I will stay focus on alternative workouts like weights, running, brick training and swimming. Since the beggining of this period, I do some special workouts on a "Stability ball". I discover it thanks to my girlfriend, who make a project (for her studies) about the benefits of "Stability ball" on the p

Winter Training Update
As a part of my studies of physical education, I must go to a winter sports week in France, the first week of february. So I make a lil' modification about my training plan, I'll begin it one week earlier than scheduled. As here, I can plan a rest & recovery week during my school winter trip. I a

Back to training: Transition period
After 2 weeks of rest, I'll start tomorrow a transition period before serious winter training. This period of 2 weeks is a low volume period with some musculation workouts and cross-training... I'll try a new workouts for me: the brick training, bike and run training. We will see if it'll be benefit for me. But for the moment it's just