Shut up legs, exactly!
Last week’s 2.5 hour zone2 endurance ride:
suck it up buttercup.
The following day doing some hard over/unders, starting around 50 minutes:
It just got better, here are part of my post-ride notes “Woke up needing more sleep. Didn’t feel good and took longer warmup. Higher RPE but thought ‘Coach Isaiah says sometimes we train the mind’ and then proceeded to get it done without drama.”
I was mentally ready to give up, the last thing I needed was a readiness score to support giving up before actually attempting to do the work. Just got stronger as the intervals went on, and that’s pretty common for me.
If I paid attention to morning HRV or early ride RPE and/or Garmin Performance Condition, I’d be spending a lot more time either off the bike or doing easy rides. IMHO that’s a formula to reduce performance.