Have you read the entire thread? Or even my original post? That would answer most of your questions there.
This is, pretty much, your answer. Yes, I’m aware of the repercussions of trying to peak too early. I have trained for races for many years, and will go back to maintenance in cycling as I start to ramp up for trail races and a half-marathon by spring.
Update for week 2 of plan:
Tough to manuveur training while traveling to see family this week for the holiday, but I made some changes and still got my workouts in.
Mon: Goat Citadel - workout felt good
Tues: Daughter was still sick (wanted to get in a strength session, but did not)
Wed: Starr -1 - over unders…ugh, everyone knows how these feel (did this workout right before leaving town - wasn’t back in town until Saturday
Thurs: Brought Kettlebells with me and did a full-body 40 min workout
Friday: 10k road run
Satruday: Was traveling this day and got home just in time for the OSU/Michigan game - I live in Columbus - had a few drinks for the game and that pretty much shot the day
Sunday: McGreggor -6 - This workout was an interesting one, definitely challenged me.
Due to the shift in schedule, I pushed all my workouts back by one day, so it will be Tu, Th, Sat for cycling workouts this week.
Thinking about what to do for next week, as it’s supposed to be a recovery week (Petit, Whorl, Townsend) I will still do the endurance workouts, but may make them just a tad more challenging and may mix in an Abney, Granite, Black Giant…I know that I need to do the recovery for adaptation, so don’t come at me in the comments…I’m used to 13-19 hour training weeks with Ironman training, so this is ‘lighter’ training for me.
We will see how this all goes…
EDIT: Forgot numbers
5h 12min of training for 432 TSS 3646 kj
Although you are historically used to high training loads, I think I’m right in saying this is new territory.
That rest week might be critical. I can only imagine that this coming month, your final weeks, are going to be pivotal.
Personally, I’d be taking it. You do know you though. If you’re feeling energised… 
How can you get 608 TSS into 5h12m???
That means a NP of 108% FTP for 5 hours. Surely your FTP is set too low.
Honestly, much of the discussions here seem rather painful, physically.
Would be a heck of a lot easier to just install a Shimano power meter, and then boom, problem solved.
Weekly TSS is based on ALL of my training, not just cycling. I find that only fair for the bigger picture of what I’m putting my body through each week. My 10k run alone this week was 263 TSS, for example.
Here’s come Ray, with some high-level sarcasm, that I’m not versed enough to understand 
Hi Ray, love your work 
Is that a typo?
Ah, it looks like your zones are set wrong. This would be running well above VO2 for over an hour (not physiologically possible). If you went all out for this run, it would probably be right around 100TSS, and the pace you ran it at would be ~threshold pace (its possible thats not what you did because of weather/motivation/race goals etc.)
I would double check what you have your paces set at in Training Peaks.
Hmmm, ok. I though they were set right. Top of my Z2 HR for running is 152. So, this kind of lines up. Wonder what I’m doing wrong here?
That is very weird. I haven’t used training peaks for a while, but with a threshold of ~8min/mile, and a run of ~10min/mile, you shouldn’t have a TSS of over 100 for an hour effort (probably closer to ~50). Is it pulling your pace from somewhere else? Do you have run power zones?
PS I’m guessing by your name you’re in the greater Columbus area, I lived out that way for a few years and have some fond memories of group rides leaving from Dublin.
It sees your intensity factor as 1.57
So FTP is set to 230 and it thinks your NP was 362 W for that ride.
That is not adding up.
TSS adds up as 100 x IF^2 per hour.
so 100 x 1.57^2 = 248, which is the TSS per hour you would be accumulating with these settings.
Thanks, all. I definitely want the numbers to be correct so I will look into this. I recently got a new Garmin HRM Pro and I think it uses run power through that. I will look into those settings and see what I can fix. Thanks for the heads up and all the supporting info 
Ok, I think I figured it out. I went through my last bunch of runs to look at where my ‘run power’ is in correlation with my Z2 HR and entered an educated guess for threshold run power. You can then recalculate in Training Peaks and it dropped me down to 87 TSS for that run.
Thank you for pointing this out to me, as I always want honest numbers. Appreciate the collaboration on this
I was doing my search on training hours for myself in xert facebook group, and accidentally came across this below article which i suddenly remember your thread.
So, it might be helpful to you. Toolbox: Front Loading Periodization Results - PezCycling News
Also going to try and break the 300w result for the ftp before the end of the year. I did an Ai FTP which put me at 292 about 3 weeks ago, was 282 before.
I normally fit in about 4-5hrs during the week using train now and a long ride on the weekend which is a blast with the mates. I recently threw myself down the road, which beat me up a bit. Though all in all ok, but was put antibiotics due to a pretty rough hole I put in my arm, These seemed to limit stop my hr getting up, and think with the ftp increase and this, I’ve struggled with V02. So the week after the off I did a lot of zone 2 for me. Last week was my first solid week since the off and consisted of
Mon 2.30hrs zone 2 on zwift
Tues Huffaker, blew in this hoping it was cos I was a bit tired from previous few days of a lot of zone 2, but V02 has been hard recently, when it was my strength
Wed kid workout, pretty steady this
Thurs rest
Friday Dude -1, got through it, was pretty tough, but it’s ticked off
Saturday, Zwift Kiss 100km, took it pretty steady when I normally go all out in this, which is normally around 250-260np for me.
475TSS
This week I going to be a struggle to get much in, as working away and access to an exercise bike but its a laid back jobbie and I really struggle on them.
Hoping @614irondad and myself can beast this goal at the end of the year
I would be interested what “great success” means. As in peaked perfectly for the championship race? No injuries? No plateau or burnout? What was done before this? Was their a season break? If so how long?
Sooooo many questions. Blanket statements like this are hard to take at face value.
I would HIGHLY recommend tracking your TSS separately for running and cycling and avoid suing a mash of the two together, if at all possible.
YOu can track the sports indivudually in your PMC on Training Peaks.
Not all TSS is equal and mashing running and cycling together distorts the training loads as a whole…
