MG Data

I’m trying to plan for next year’s mountain bike race season by keeping track of good days vs bad days on the bike and what I’ve done that may have caused it to be a good day or bad day in the preceeding days/weeks.

To do this I’ve been keeping some cycling training logs that allow anyone to signup for free for cycling training logs. The logs feature color coded days so it is easy to visually pick out color coded trends and then read the corresponding data to see what may have caused the specific trend. With this I hope to be able to better plan out my good days on the bike for race day.

So far I have about 2 months of cycling log data collected and can’t draw any specific conclusions.

It seems for me that potatos lead to good performance, along with a good run 2 days before a big ride. My legs seem to perform better on the bike when they are sore from another non-cycling activity, like running, that I do not do that often.

It’s always hard to get much sleep the night before a race because for me it usually means getting up real early and driving an hour or 2 to arrive to the race an hour or 2 early. I’ve found that it’s best for if I get 9 hours of sleep 2 nights before and then the usual 4-5 hours the night before. 2 days in a row of 4-5 hours sleep make for a bad race day.

Try the logs out by creating your free cycling training log account.