and for what its worth, Garmin VO2max estimate jumped to highest level since Nov 2018. And while my muscular endurance and ftp are down a bit at this point (not the focus of trad base1), subjectively that feels reasonable and believable. If vo2 keeps going up, I’m planning to go straight from traditional base into build. If estimated vo2 improvements taper off, then I’ll insert a 9-week vo2 intervention between traditional base and build. Hoping to go straight to build and work on vo2 repeatability.
p.s. when fed good max effort data, WKO generally agrees with Garmin vo2max estimates. So I tend to believe Garmin estimates. And I haven’t fed WKO yet, so it’s useless at the moment.