I’m looking at your Block 2 Friday sessions… you might want to reconsider those workouts. I’ve got similar ones scheduled for the next two weeks, however, from the brief reading I’ve done of anaerobic work, the TR sessions aren’t designed for training max power; the rest periods are too short. I guess it’s the TR mantra of ‘repeatability’ at work. Just a thought.
90% of maximal HR is only about 85% of VO2max.
Funny you say this. They are too short aren’t they? Looking for complete rest, more like a 1:6 (1 min:6min) work to rest. I’ll have to do some workout creator modifications to these in order to build in longer rest periods.
Yep. I’ve been trying to get to 90% before starting time on my work interval, and then try to keep raising heart rate. I’m still learning. I’ve seen HR max of 190, 193, 195 throughout the season so I know that if I’m around 180 BPM and my breathing rate is high that I have to be fairly close to VO2 max. I’m trying not to be a slave to heart rate, and go more by RPE and respiration to tell me I’m close to VO2 max. Training outdoors w/o power so I don’t have that metric, yet.
Here’s an outdoor session from yesterday:
@anthonylane - I like that visualization. Which program is that?
It’s from https://intervals.icu
How did it go?
Keen to hear @anthonylane results too @Captain_Doughnutman!
I wasn’t gunning for 5min power but still up there. I figured if I targeted 1min max it would give me an actionable 1-2min (maybe 3min) boost.
Guh. I’m doing my last few days of Z6/FRC this week before a final run at some choice KOMs. Maybe. Supposed to be blanketed in US smoke again this weekend so…might be time to move away from America if Sept is going to turn into smoke season.
Any way…started at 30s intervals, now at 1:15m @ ~160%. Barely did any >FTP work this year so when I started I could do 2 intervals at power before stalling out. Now I’m up to 4. 
Very draining and usually requires 2-3 days of recovery (i.e. no other workouts!). But I do feel stronger, just hope I can test it out this weekend.
Bonus: after doing all these HARD rides, VO2 intervals are going to feel like a breeze! 
I threw the towel in on my season about midway through this month. Things were going well and I had bagged 3 great VO2 sessions then decided to do two rides with 2 of my COVID pals, and doubled my weekly TSS and derailed the whole thing. Turns out 160 and 330 TSS rides in the span of 2 days does wonders for putting your form into the red. Lessons learned.
I’m now on my “off season” and have refocused myself for next season. I had a great 2020 though, learned a lot about training, and can’t wait to incorporate some of these VO2/max aerobic blocks for next season.
Yeah I too almost ended my season this month. Couple weeks where I couldn’t ride outside and to keep doing those high intensity sessions seemed really pointless. I can tell this week is the definitely the end.
Like you, great “season” — started at zero and arrived at some all-time highs with lots of experimentation along the way. Now to figure out how to construct next year…without knowing what next year is going to look like!