My plan has 45 minute Threshold workouts on Saturdays. My plan doesn’t have any Sweetspot workouts. If I occasionally replace short Threshold with a 2 hour Sweetspot will I see similar fitness benefits or are those short Threshold much more valuable? My A event is an Everesting so I need to get a lot of time in the saddle to prepare.
If you do btwn 1.5× and 2× the interval durations at 90% of FTP, then you’ll probably be getting near enough the same stimulus, I reckon.
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Sweet spot and threshold are essentially interchangeable, just make the ss duration longer than the threshold, obviously.
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SST and Threshold both train essentially the same thing but SST allows you to do more time at a higher intensity. I would not neglect riding at FTP but if you can get a good chunk more tiz at SST, especially doing longer intervals I would do that before moving up towards riding at ftp. This also avoids any issues with a potentially over estimated ftp or any day to day fluctuations.
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Thanks everyone! I’ll probably do the short threshold 1 week and longer sweet spot the next for a while and see how that goes. Not sure I can mentally handle another 6 months of threshold every week.
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You’d probably get even more benefit by substituting with 3h tempo and yet still more with 4-5h z2…
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