5000 miles in 2 years and no change in FTP....!

Missing 1/2 to 1/3 of the weeks workouts is nothing to discard. Depending on exactly where you cut, you may have missed out on the most critical workouts of the week. Those are generally the Tues and Thurs workouts, but depending on your particular needs, dropping other workouts could lead to stagnation or drops in fitness too.

It’s not as simple as looking at the time. You have to look at the actual content of the workouts completed (and those skipped). Even with the ones you completed, were they done to their fullest, did you under-perform for any reason, etc?

You have to look at the actual compliance to the workouts and the plan overall. If you are missing or coming up short on workouts, that is a clear issue. It also depends heavily on your prior training history in what has worked for you and what actually leads to progression for your body.

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needs different stimulation. have you just been doing sweet spot? it’ll stagnate eventually. spice things up with vo2max at all different durations.

one hour and 3-4k of climbing?! where do you live??

I’d actually suggest that it could be over training or under training and that you need to consider both.

Coming from an unstructured background the mid-volume plans are a lot more focused and possibly more intensity than you were getting in the prior 6-7 years. You might actually need more rest, not more stimulation. Remember training + rest = increase. If you don’t get both training and rest you won’t get faster