After my victory in the Giro d'Italia 's stage 21 I realized I really had a good performance and focused on the national championship TT 3 weeks later.
The main goal was to keep the fitness level and gaining some freshness.
So the first week I had only recovery days and before racing in the week-end I did two PowerCranks sessions on the rollers of 20' each.
I was 2nd in one of the two races performing really well
The second week I started to do some work-outs onto my TT bike, one with Vo2max exercises and the other one focusing on aerobic power.
Both training were 2hrs long. Then I trained with normal bike because I was called by the team to scout and study 3 Tour mountain stages.
That happened from 9 to 6 days before my event.
I did 3 long training rides each one from 5 to 6 hrs and 50 to 60kms of climbing. The pace has been steady all the 3 days.
After 1 day of complete rest I resumed my TT bike training with motorpacing workout, with the goal of speeding up the legs after the long days in the mountains.
Only 48hrs before the event I did some short intense intervals to feel again the race pace.
The day of the event I rode the circuit in the morning in 1 hr training with some intervals to setting up the body.
Then 30' before the start I warmed up for 20' on the rollers. It was a very hot day with temperature well above 35°C.
The race was 33.1 kms long and the route was almost all flat with 65 turns, some narrow and some very fast.
I started well controlling the effort after the turns in order to avoid maximum accellerations.
After the first check time I slowed down the pace a little bit before speeding up again in the last 10' of the race.
My average power in the end was 360W for a 40' effort winning by 1'22".
It's a good value for me considering the heat and the nervous route.
Now next goal the World Championship