I was off the bike with a major Flu for 2 weeks, and I only had couple weeks left in SSB2. On the third week I felt that I was over the Flu, so I tried some easy workouts such as Pettit, Dans, Bald Knob and Andrews. The first three workouts felt okay, but Andrews really wiped me out. Consequently…

See entry #7 here…personally, it might make more sense to re-assess and start over [image] How to come back from illness Training There’s a lot of great advice in here! Just to throw in some more info, I’ve linked an article about how to bounce back after taking time awa…

Thank you for the reply and link. Yes, I read that TR webpage before posting this thread. According to that TR recommendation I should restart SSB2, but when you suggest to re-assess do you mean restart from SSB1 ?

5 weeks seems like an eternity but if your training was solid up to the point of being off the bike, I’d be inclined to start over with SSB2 and make sure you do the ramp test. With any luck, you’ll start bouncing back in short order and then increase the intensity during the workout until the next …

I had a similar period of illness off the bike. I tried to get back where I left off but it was obvious I was kidding myself. So, rather gutting, I retested and got a much lower FTP and started back on SSB1. Whilst I felt rather embarrassed to be recording such ‘low’ numbers I thought it wold com…

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See entry #7 here…personally, it might make more sense to re-assess and start over

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