Back to back workout planning

Training
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Just after some advice from the hive mind.

Currently I normally have an hour to ride on a Tuesday, 2 hours on a Wednesday and 1.5 hours on a Saturday.

My plan usually suggests a v02 max on Tues, sweet spot on weds and a threshold on sat.

Because the vo2 is usually pretty tough it usually ends up switching the weds rode to a 1 hour endurance.

My question is do people think I would be better doing the sweet spot for an hour, then threshold for 2 hours with vo2 at the weekend?

Thank you and all thoughts welcome

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Welcome to the forum! Honestly, moving VO2 max to Saturday when you’re fully rested is a game changer. Doing back-to-back intense days midweek (Sweet Spot into Threshold) will exhaust you fast, so keeping Wednesday as endurance might actually be your best bet

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I agree that following one hard workout with another two-hour hard workout could be tough.

Sweet spot is a bit less intense, so moving that to Wednesday could help, but until you’re used to those hard Tuesday rides, TR is likely going to continue to recommend switching Wednesday to endurance.

How are your workouts feeling so far?

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Workouts feel tough but manageable, my thinking was would I get more return for my time if I made the one hour workout easier and so the two hour workout was harder.

I might have gone down a rabbit hole of overthinking everything!!