Originally Posted by SyntaxMonstr

Quick conversation I had with my coach re. this was the following: big strength block involving 3-4 gym days with an emphasis on heavy lifting, 2-3 bike sessions featuring massive gears and stuff like starts, standing/rolling efforts, and flying efforts. Then follow this with a speed block in which it's the opposite - light gear work with loads of high cadence stuff (reasonable cadence, not the 200+ rpm stuff people brag about on social media), largely the same efforts, f200s/500s/750s, including efforts where you jump out of the saddle into/through the turns and sit to wind up the gear in the straights. Then dial it all in on your race gearing, taper, and see where you're at.

This might only work for me because of noob gainz and all that, but it's definitely upped my top speed so far. Still a long way off from where I'd like to be though. =/