I donât know what the rep lengths are on Mt Hale, but I am with others. If you canât hold 105% for ~10-15 min reps, you are either too fatigued to do a threshold workout, or your ftp is too high.
What are those, 4x12 or 4x15 minutes at 105%? When is your event? Seems like a savage workout for pre-season. Kinda interesting given that Iâve heard TR podcast discouraging 20-min at ~105% field test and âcapacitive testing.â
4x9. I know Iâm soft. Have an A race April 19th so itâs gearing up. The worst thing is no matter how many workouts I rate as âVery Hardâ AT keeps increasing intensity. Next week I have 6x7min @ 105% with 2 min recovery. Not looking forward to that. lol
Iâm old and feeble LOL and prefer working up from 3x5-min to 4x5 and then jumping up quickly to x10 or x15. That 4x9 doesnât sound so bad, outside.
Yeah, this idea has come up a couple times recently, and my understanding of it is that you can do a 20 minute effort at 105, but that completely empties the tank. My arms tingle near the end of ftp tests sometimes. I donât think I should be going that hard during normal workouts.
Holding 105 for 20 minutes also assumes you can mentally hold that effort the whole time - not an easy task if youâre unaccustomed to that sort of suffering.
Iâm with you on inside vs outside for these type of efforts. Not too long ago I had various 10 minute efforts with the last being âaim for where you think your 20-30 minute TT pace would beâ and started 900kJ into the workout. Was feeling good so I turned that 10-min interval into 106% for a little over 20 minutes. Didnât fully empty the tank. Didnât do an all-out 20-min effort. Did end up with a smile on my face. Did get a coach comment that he secretly happy and mad at the same time.