What PR did you hit today?

Lol, I managed to set 2 all time records today on a long Z2 ride. It looks like the first. I’ve probably not ridden 3h15m or 3h20m often with a power meter :joy:

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Beg to differ. Increasing from ~15 to ~17 mph is a HUGE achievement. Spectacular. Bravo.

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Thanks, I know some would say you can’t really quantify improvements based on speed and HR because of all the variables, but I think we know when we’re performing better.

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We have a local hill climb series going on around Zurich, Switzerland. Up until 20min i smashed nearly every PR. This shows me, that I have to go hard more often. Or race more often!

Cleary I dit not make into the top ranks as my weight is still too high. Power wise however I am quite happy. With 391W for around 10min I am around in the top 5%.

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Longest ride ever counts right?! 2km longer than my last attempt but one hour quicker, TT bike helps! Don’t tell anyone at TrainerRoad, I did this is in my the first rest week of sustained power build high volume :joy: Ramp test tomorrow and looking forward to it!

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Not really much FRC work, if at all. I would say that I’ve only had maybe a handful of true FRC workouts the entire season. If I had to guess, this is still reaping the benefits from better endurance and VO2max training.

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My highest ever CTL :smile:
Little wins and all that

91_CTL

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Barely cracked 1300w, but cracked it

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Hit 4w/kg FTP (officially- I’m dubious about the result)

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They’re some pretty :muscle: numbers

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Last week I had PR’s between 2-4 minute efforts and I did it again this week. During a race, launched for the prime lap money but brought 1 guy with me. He sat on and got the dough but I was happy with the effort. Opened up a sizable gap on the field. Last weeks effort, which resulted in a prime lap win, was 408 watts for 2:34 min 5.6w/kg and this week was 423w for 2:34 min - 5.8w/kg. 472w for 1:45. 6.5w/kg.

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Love that you did 1200w “messing around”. :laughing:

Good to see you are riding in and out, but where is there racing in your area (NY I think)?

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Broke off a new 15-30s PB on a 95 mile ‘endurance’ ride. Coming off a peak is fun.

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TR says I hit a 1sec All Time PB of 1228w on the warm up to my Virtual TT I’m putting it down as a spike though. Its about 56w either side. I believe strava’s 2020 PB from 43secs to 1min 36s as it doesn’t include that spike and I PB’d up the virtual Paterberg at 374w. For some reason Strava, TP, RWGPS, Intervals.ICU and Golden Cheetah can all read the RGT file but Strava and Garmin Connect can’t :thinking:

On to the main TT. I ran the Garmin in parallel with RGT for this one. The Garmin to TR file picked out 18 All Time PBs and 45 2020PBs.

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New all-time 10sec - 1min power PRs. :partying_face::star_struck::hot_face:

Looks like the month of god awful Z6 training kinda paid off. Didn’t get the promo KOM I was shooting for but that 1min PR is an ok “first loser” prize. :laughing:

That was from today’s AM ride. Going back out this afternoon for more hunting/power curve testing.

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PM ride –
New all-time max power – 1120w! :boom: woot! :laughing:
Plus a new all-time 5sec power for good measure.

Last full-effort ride of 2020 and I gotta say, as nutty as this year has been, it’s been a boon to my fitness.
I’ve raised and extended my entire power curve. Except for one weird zone: 4-10min. Early 2019 is still just barely better. :man_shrugging:t2:

Now for a couple weeks of fun t-shirt rides on the single speed…plus a few beers and burgers…then prep for 2021!

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Found how to edit the .fit file for entry into TR and it confirms I hit circa 45s to 1min 30s post op pbs :grinning:

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Did you edit that binary file using a website? I get about 3 rides a year with a spike, and its easily fixed in TrainingPeaks/WKO but not on TR.

(I’ve written some C/C++ tools using the FIT SDK, but I’m not that good at writing software to bother making my own tool for fixing these spikes)

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I simply used used Golden Cheetah’s editing tools to remove the 1 sec spike and remove the 1 sec gaps, then uploaded it to TR.

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Thanks, never thought to try that. I did try fixing in TP and exporting, but you just get original .fit file. Now I know what to do next time!

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Ahh these are unsanctioned night races in Central Park, NYC and Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

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