I don’t think anyone has said they’re chasing it. If you’re in the northern hemisphere it’s likely your CTL peaks in summer, and troughs in the winter etc.
If you were always chasing CTL you’d never take that recovery week every third or fourth week, which would stymy any gains you’re aiming at.
Do you (or your coach) look at CIL in conjunction with CTL?
43 down from 70 in July and mid 60’s during my CX season. I am in a maintainence phase now, I will ramp things up starting in March. I am 70 yrs. young.
he might, I’m not. Right now I’m focused on training that doesn’t lend itself to using CIL.
I’ve paid dearly for chasing CTL with an extended time off as a result. Slow and steady wins the race. Lesson learned!
I’m 53. How do you tolerate at CTL that high? (120)
In the first week of the third 3:1 block leading up to the seasons first race on 21 January, CTL is 130 and ATL 143 with form at 9.
Last ramp tested (mid training plan) two weeks back where FTP dropped 2% and MAP increased 2%.
Body is feeling it. Been averaging weekly hours of 11-17 hours.
Understood. Yeah It mirrors CTL for lsd stuff but, really deviates with more short intense rides. I look at both but, look at CIL more after base/built peak CTL. Not that you should. Just curious as you have a handle on the metric stuff better than most. You should be a coach in a few years if you’re still at it.
Thanks, I’ve had a passion for numbers and modeling stuff since high school.
Here is my CTL/CIL for the past year:
CIL is the lower dashed white line, and CTL is the upper solid white line. Its a busy chart but gives a good snapshot of the basic structure (low/med/high intensity, plus training load).
In contrast here you can see when I was doing 2 a days, mornings generally anaerobic efforts for about 20 minutes and IF around 1.0. Afternoons generally longer sweet spot intervals.
Only 3 blue “low IF” symbols LOL. And CIL is above CTL.
FWIW one of my favorite charts/reports is time above 85% relative vo2max.
Progressive overload and recovery. I’ve built up to the volume and intensity that leads to a summer CTL of 120 over a number of years. Thus at 56 the load is a none issue and I recover just fine.
I’ve not suffered an exercise induced injury my entire life. I guess I’ve just innately known when to recover / rest and when to crack on. Long before I’d heard of such terms as ATL and CTL.
Ahh man I like the TSS zones and the IF zones on your chart. I need to figure out how to do that.
Here you go, I made a GitHub repo to share some charts:
You should be able to download and import the chart.
I’ve signed up for the Festive 500. Probably won’t acheive the 500, as i have a cyclo x race on 28th and don’t want to be tired for that.
Off road planned for tomorrow, and 4-5 hours on Christmas day.
Then I’ll tack on some endurance to my TR session the next day,
More realistically it’s going to be up to 300k 
Impressive 
updated the chart to:
Example:
redownload and reimport.
the charts or the ridiculous amount of intensity in 2017? 
Turns out simply doing more endurance and just a little more time got me to the same fitness level, and without all the injuries. 
Currently 65. Down from mid 90s over the summer, partly a) because in the summer I can ride outside for 3 hours a day if I choose and b) covid.
Took me awhile to figure out how to download. Thanks Brian.
Glad you were able to figure it out, and apologies to those unfamiliar with GitHub and software development.
found my guy! was starting to feel pretty inferior.
