I did a workout today and failed. Two primary reasons: my computer died after the first set of intervals, which caused me to run out of time before I had to get the kids up. Second (the bigger reason), my wife is getting into lifting, so I helped her out yesterday and did a leg workout with her… knowing it would make today more difficult. I was looking forward to today’s threshold workout, and I’m bummed I failed it. I think it would have been hard but achievable, given (more fresh legs) and that I rarely fail a workout since using the AI FTP program. I have no ride on Friday, and on Sunday, I start a recovery week, so I’ll have 5 workouts of endurance/recovery.
My question is
Do I re-attempt today’s failed workout on Saturday instead of sweetspot?
Do I re-attempt today’s workout on Saturday, and do sweetspot on Sunday
Do I keep the plan as is and proceed with the normal schedule?
If it was only the computer issue, I would be tempted by option a or b, but given this sounds like a fatigue related fail, I’m solidly in the camp of c - keep the plan as is and chalk it up to learning. Othwerwise, you risk piling fatigue onto fatigue and spiralling into a hole - ask me how I know!
I know it’s a hard mindset to get out of but that failed workout wasn’t time wasted. You’ll still have got valuable training stimulus from what you did do. Don’t let perfect get in the way of progress!
Yeah, be brutally honest with yourself about how much/little effect the tech failure had vs the legs failure! Also think about where and when in the workout you actually bailed? If it was, say 15 minutes into a 60 minute workout, you could feasibly repeat on Saturday in lieu of your sweet spot. If you pulled the plug halfway through the final interval, then you’ve done a good chunk of work anyway, so just carry on and let the plan adapt.
Do I re-attempt today’s workout on Saturday, and do sweetspot on Sunday
30 minutes into a 75-minute over-under. I did the warm-up, the first few easy intervals, kinda ramping up to the main sets, and did the first interval set 2 min under 2 min over (x3).
I would stick to the schedule, although it’s very tempting to play catch up.
If you failed primarily for technical reasons, and you don’t feel you exhorted yourself, I might add a very short threshold workout tonight if I was confident of success.
At the end of the day, one imperfect workout is not a big deal.