February review, March preview

My training for February was decent.  I didn't get in as many hours as I wanted, but I was doing some hard workouts and I think the long hours we're hampering my recovery.  I averaged between 10 and 13.5 hours this week.  This week (my recovery week), I'm planning on getting about 5 1/2 hours on the bike, then I'm skiing both days this weekend, so I'm counting each day as an hour.

Here's the preview of March.  Intense training and racing means I'm cutting back the hours.  I have 12-13.5 in the plan, but really I expect 10-13 hours for the build weeks.  On my intense days, I'm trying to get an hour of hard riding in.  On the easy days, I'm pretty much just commuting to work and back -- easy riding.  The way I see it, the season is upon us, so no point in trying to build up a base by riding a lot at low intensity.  That was reserved for Dec, Jan, Feb.  Now, it's time to build some speed and recovery for the weekend racing.