Road to Schönbuch Trophy

The winter plan in one carousel. Four building blocks: endurance from my coach's weekly plan, two strength sessions a week at home, a mobility routine alongside, and the bike first.

Strength in phases: learning the lifts in November, heavy and moderate days alternating until early December, then the heaviest block over the turn of the year. From February, one heavy session a week keeps the gains through the race season. Endurance: mostly easy, about 80 % low intensity, with a lab test in December to set fresh training zones.

From March it gets specific: gravel race pace, climbs in the Schönbuch forest, and a few Saturday–Sunday doubles, gravel one day and a trail run the next, so the legs know the combo format.

One block at a time, fewer exercises done well, no zero weeks. The target: the Schönbuch Trophy on 24 and 25 April.