Sunday is Paris-Roubaix, for me the Queen of all classics.
I actually wanted to race myself (somewhere else ) but my wife has to work. This means I have to stay at home with the kids. They are quite self-sufficient but as it looks weather will be miserable as well. Thus, it’s the basement.
P-R has 29 cobble sections, they hit the first after about 1/3 of total racing team. My idea is to ride with them. And hit every cobble section at threshold. This means 3.5 to 4 hours with 29 efforts between 1.5 and 5min at threshold. Should be a good workout.
Depending on my family committments I’ll manage to start riding right before the first pave sector, around ~13:30h central European time.
However, if weather turns out nice I will ride outdoors. Clear priority but looking at the forcast it is quite unlikely. So who’s in?
Sounds fun and hard as hell. I’ll be relegated to the basement Sunday morning with PR on live. Planning on riding to it myself. Sunday is usually endurance day, but I may have other plans now.
PM: some shorter SST intervals in the basement. “Rode” the last three rides of the Tour of the Basque Country … good test for Sunday. Building my fatigue resistance.
If you’re a real masochist you can add some extra intervals…Every time they show real time power data on the screen try and match it for as long as it appears on screen.
I’m hoping to get some long rides in this weekend with the weather finally breaking but if I’m stuck on the trainer on Sunday I may try to “ride” it as well.
as alluded to before, I really need two days between hard days. Friday was tough with two workouts, I don’t recover that well anymore. Still a good workout, tired legs training.
I must admit, I don’t use TSS. I don’t find it particular useful. Have not even set up a value for FTP in Golden Cheetah. Don’t really test either.
However, using my latest 50min all-out-effort as a proxy I end up with 271 TSS. Effort level of the "on"s was somewhere at 4.8 W/kg. This is below my 50min power. I was still very tired from Friday, not just in the legs. This was really a mental fatigue, as well. It’s so much easier on the mind when you have fresh legs and feel strong. But still good that I pushed through it.