Ultra-Endurance: Prepare your 24H skating competition in 4 weeks

SILA offers a new training card to perfect your preparation to ultra-endurance skate races. It is timely training tips, a few weeks before the 24H of Le Mans Roller...

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Publié le 23 mai 2015 - Mis à jour le 3 novembre 2020 - 13719 Lectures - 0 commentaire(s)

Objectives

Categories: 16+
Duration: 6-90 min per drill
Nb of ppl.: >1
Difficulty: 2/3

Material

Stopwatch
Heart rate monitor

Places

Recommended practice places for this card: Track / Road / Road circuit

Working on your endurance

• Improving your endurance specific to skating
• Specifically working on endurance competition
• Working individually
• Targeting specific work zones

Specific drills and tips

• Analyzing your effort
• Calculating your workout intensity
• Your preparation program
• Our tips
• The pluses of SILA Sport

The special features of endurance competition

Description

The aim of this type of competition is to cover the greatest distance as possible in 24 hours.
For a team race, the principle is to relay one another in order to cover the agreed distance as fast as possible with your team mates.
The type of effort is very different between 24H races by team of 10-12 skaters and solo or pair 24H races for example.

Effort analysis

Example with a team of 10 skaters

If you consider that all the skaters in the team have the same level, each skater should skate 2h24min. It is far from the 24 hours mentioned in the name of the race.
If you consider that the average relay lasts 10 min, each skater has to take 14 to 15 relays.
In this case, the intensity of the effort is almost at its maximum, since there is a recovery break of 1h30min between each relay!

Example with a solo skater

This time the calculation is easy, to perform in this race, the skater has to skate as much as possible during 24 hours in order to cover the greatest distance as possible.
In order to perform, it is important to keep a steady pace all through the race.
Specialists of this type of race have very specific training programs that we are not going to detail here.
You should only know that their reserve heart rate is of 70 and 75% during the whole 24 hours of the race.

Calculation of you workout intensity

1) Resting heart rate (resting HR)

With a heart rate monitor, measure your heart rate in the morning when you wake up. It is when your heart rate is at its lowest. Most of the time, this measurement is done the morning after your day of break, i.e. without physical activity.

2) Maximum heart rate (max HR)

With a heart rate monitor, measure your highest heart rate recorded after a maximum heart rate stress test.

Protocole for a max HR test:

• Warm-up: 10 min at a moderate pace
• 3×1 min at maximum speed with 2 min recovery breaks between the series

Your maximum heart rate should be measured on the 3rd 1min series at maximum speed.

3) Reserve heart rate (reserve HR)

The reserve heart rate is the amplitude of heart rates on which you will have to work in order to improve your physical level.
By definition, it is not possible to get lower than your resting heart rate, and higher than your maximum heart rate.

Reserve HR = Max HR — Resting HR
eg. Max HR = 200; Resting HR = 50
Reserve HR = 200 — 50 = 150 bpm (beats per minute)

Workout intensity = Resting HR + % Reserve HR
eg. Reserve HR = 150
Workout intensity for fundamental endurance = 50 + 0.75*150 = 162.5

	Week 1		Week 2
Training 1	Theme	Fundamental endurance	Theme	Fundamental endurance
	Intensity	70% to 75% of Reserve HR	Intensity	70% to 80% of Reserve HR
	Program	1h to 1h30 at a regular pace	Program	6x8min with 3min breaks between series

Training 2	Theme	Specific endurance	Theme	Specific endurance
	Intensity	85% to 95% of Reserve HR	Intensity	90% to 95% of Reserve HR
	Program	4×10 min with 5min breaks between series	Program	8×6 min with 5min breaks between series

Training 3	Theme	Fundamental endurance	Theme	Fundamental endurance
	Intensity	70% to 75% of Reserve HR	Intensity	75% to 80% of Reserve HR
	Program	1h to 1h30 at a regular pace	Program	3x20min with 5min breaks between series

	Week 3		Week 4
Training 1	Theme	Specific interval training	Theme	Specific interval training
	Intensity	90% to 100% of Reserve HR	Intensity	90% to 100% of Reserve HR
	Program	(4min at 95% + 3min of active recovery + 3min at 95%) repeat 5x 6min breaks between series	Program	(4min at 95% + 3min of active recovery + 3min at 95%) repeat 5x 6min breaks between series

Training 2	Theme	Fundamental endurance	Theme	Specific endurance
	Intensity	70% to 80% of Reserve HR	Intensity	90% to 95% of Reserve HR
	Program	6×8 min with 3min breaks between series	Program	6 x 10 min with 5 min breaks between series

Training 3	Theme	Specific interval training	Theme	Specific interval training
	Intensity	85% to 95% of Reserve HR	Intensity	90% to 100% of Reserve HR
	Program	6×10 min with 5min breaks between series	Program	(4min at 95% + 3min of active recovery + 3min at 95%) repeat 5x — 6min breaks between series

Our tips

Try to measure your resting heart rate once a week, always under the same conditions (same hour, same sleeping conditions…)
The more the merrier, don’t hesitate to follow this program with other skaters (even if HRs are never as good) > put the emphasis on the enjoyment of skating together
If possible, train on Mondays / Wednesdays / Fridays so that you get 24 hours of rest in-between trainings
In case of bad weather you can also do the same sessions, cycling or running! The most important here is cardiovascular stimulation.
For more similarities with the 24H of Le Mans circuit, you can train on relief routes instead of flat places only.
Use good quality wheels for your training. It will help you correct your technique and be more efficient.

The pluses of SILA Sport

No heart rate monitor? Do the program relying on your sensations. It is easy to set yourself a pace and keep it for a while. After a few series you will find yourself in your heart zone, even without monitor, thanks to your self-awareness.
Even if this theme is not mentioned, don’t neglect your lifestyle during the month preceding your objective (sleep, hydration, food…)
Even on D-Day, take your heart rate monitor to control your effort!
Don’t hesitate to go 100% on your relays if you are in a team of 10-12!

Organize your relays so that you get periods long enough to sleep.

Soon on SILAsport.com: new additional training cards on the theme of endurance