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    SHOULD YOU TURN TRAINING ON ITS HEAD?

    Feb 20, 2020 4 minutes
    Photos Daniel Gould, Getty Images

    The traditional club cyclist’s year used to be governed by a strict set of rules. You started training on January 1, at least a stone overweight after the club dinner season followed by Christmas. You stayed in the little ring for the whole of January as you started building your base fitness again from scratch. When you’d done the requisite base mileage, you were ready to start intervals, and after 2,000km (1,243 miles), you were ready to race again. The received wisdom held that you first needed to build a broad, strong base for your training pyramid, before you added any intensity and finally topped it off with your sprinting.

    So why

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