I’m a young/old dude (56) and 2017 was my second season, the A event was a double century in May 2017 and weekly Wed night worlds where I was able to hang onto the wheels of the lead group for the first time. Fitness was pretty high up until late August, when I took some time off and then a short 4 week block before riding the Mt Figueroa Gran Fondo in early Nov. A couple weeks later I injured my back pretty bad, difficult to sit up. The doc said it was ok to ride the trainer in early December and by that point I had dropped from 275 (summer) to 236 in December when I started SSB-1-HV because I couldn’t ride outside and had two years of high volume under my belt. After 6 weeks of mostly sweet spot (a couple outside rides - 70 miles flat and 18 mile climb at 5%) my ftp bumped up to 247 for a nice roughly 5% gain.
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