I’m currently dodging the problem I was having with completing interval workouts in a hot, humid climate (southern hemisphere summer) with minimal willingness to train inside anyway… by switching to three rounds of Traditional Base 1 (starting MV, may later move to HV) + strength workouts, attempting to follow a protocol similar to the one in the study that Sarah & Jonathan presented in the AACC podcast 503. End of week 2, I’ve hit every workout so far, & I’m looking forward to next week. (RLGL is currently tsk-tsking me because I stacked a few days back to back. 
) I’m really enjoying the change from the floggin’ I inflicted upon myself a few months ago. Change is a good as a holiday so they say, but it’s novel stimulus which could possibly mean it’s better, & the multi-hour audax adventures get to add to my training rather than derail it. But the proof will be in how I feel at week 7, or especially week 10. And of course in that first sweetspot workout when I get to TB2. I’ll see how I go over the next few weeks & hopefully months. 
Contemplating that because strength training is taking the place of intervals, maybe that’s what I should be prioritising in terms of fatigue management. 
It’s a strange headspace for a cyclist to be in!
