Honey! I’m hooOOOOommmmeee!!!
It’s official, today I got the boot home. I’m thinking of it as retirement practice rather than any kind of isolation protocol. Any seasoned WFH tips* for a newbie? 
*(mostly bike related stuff, like how to hide Strava rides etc, rather than actual work stuff)
On many of the podcasts, they’ve said that you won’t get FTP bumps during Specialty phase. With that in mind and pretty much all of my races getting canceled, after Build, I’d get more out of returning to Base or Build again right?
i’d stick to the schedule and use the extra time for other things! but, if you really want to add hours, you can always tack on extra endurance (50-75% FTP), some fun cadence drills, or one to two zwift races per week depending on how long you’ve been training.
good luck and stay safe!
I think one reason why you don’t get FTP bumps in Specialty is simply that it comes after Base and Build. By being third in line, all the low hanging fruit has already been picked.
IME, after a very productive first round of Base and Build in a given season, repeating Base doesn’t yield much of an FTP bump either. And, by repeating 6 weeks of SSB1 and the first 3 weeks of SSB2, you actually lose some high end fitness developed in Build.
I’m sticking with the training plan I have been following. I fully expect my mid-June race to be cancelled but figure it can’t hurt to stick with the plan.
That said I am adding in more rides here and there just because I have the time. For example I did a stage of the Zwift Tour of Watopia and pushed pretty hard today. Might not have been the best move as I have Avalanche Spire tommorow. I’m hopeful I can keep it real and not overdo it!!
Wish I could get outside, but I’m pretty much a full time home school teacher now.
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Ca-ching! Now I don’t have to start a go fund me to bankroll that new bike 
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Also this… talks about training and the immune system . Basically don’t make any drastic changes to your training as in adding more stress but if you usually train 10 hours it’s probably okay to keep that routine and don’t over do the intensity right now. That’s what I gather from it at least.
Well my A event is cancelled (Dirty Reiver), my next A event wasn’t until October. I had picked a end of May event in plan builder, but that seems optimistic. Not just as to whether it goes ahead, but just getting through a block without personal illness. Work stress is already up, as organising Business Continuity/ redeploying my team.
I think I’m going to roll back to SSB1, without using plan builder for the next month of so while things could be so disrupted, and plan builder is unable to cope with illness/ holidays!
You’re unlikely to get an FTP bump in specialty, yes. There was definitely a podcast where they said if you don’t have a race coming up you could just do base, build, base, build, repeating those two indefinitely (there is almost certainly some subtlety about TSS I’m forgetting, mind! Pinch of salt…) I could try to find it for a more complete answer if you think that’d help, but I’d bet it’ll be on the podcast this week 
I signed up for zwift yesterday and used to be a user a while ago (just a speed sensor then), I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to get zwift to find my power meter when TR was still running, can anyone link me up on how to do it please.
Funny, but seriously…start that biz up! As the saying goes — never let a good crisis go to waste! Sure, it might morally bankrupt you, but better that than financially bankrupt! 
If you’re connecting to your power meter with Bluetooth, you can’t. (Specifically: almost all Bluetooth devices can only connect to one thing at a time.) Hopefully your power meter does ANT+, in which case, have one of the things connect via ANT+ instead.
I’ve got an antplus stick as well as bluetooth so that should be ok shouldn’t it?
Anybody this desperate yet?
I’m in WFH setup since yesterday, but no big training gains since my usual commute is 10-15 minutes each way - so not even gaining a half hour a day. I’m sticking to my usual schedule, up early, train, breakfast, shower, except I then go to my desk rather than my car.
Decided to back off the intensity and do trad base instead of continuing build. I’ll probably add 1-2 days of core + weights, adn/or outdoor running if the weather cooperates. Which it will partially do tomorrow - warm, but bucketloads of rain.
It sounds like then it’s more structured for you, is that true?
Yeah, that’s the plan. I’m trying to stay off the higher intensity workouts to make sure I have all resources available to fight that damn virus once it gets to me. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
Sleep, good diet, exercise, are generally key. At least that way I’ve staved off any colds for 4 years now.
Good health to everyone.