After nixing the usual weekend ride with my wife because of 2 000 things, went out for the morning 1-h solo outing today - it’s getting pretty dark already, those 5h30 rides are about to be over. Managed to squeeze it between darkness and the incoming rain. It’s a nice loop with mostly minimal traffic, including that stretch of broken pavement country road on the way back - with a tailwind, I was flying over it, quite sure the rattles would make me lose a few screws or dental filings. It’s like my own Paris-Roubaix.
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Not workout I did today…but what workout I did yesterday (er…day before yesterday).
Junction -1. Did it a day early, so I would have time for team CX practice on the lakefront, which meant doing it junction -1 the day after bashfull +2. Nailed it, though it was brutal.
Just finished up short power build 1. I’m utterly cooked. So looking forward to rest week starting today.
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After a week in the Colorado mountains with the wife (wife’s bike is on the left, mine’s on the right)…
I’m back to a normal routine leading up to a 6 hour mountain bike race this Saturday. This past weekend I did Avalanche Spire and Round Bald. The plan for this week is to taper leading up to the race.
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Some more “fun” Zwift academy workouts with a some all time PRs 
Workout #4: Anaerobic Power Development
First 3 min interval done at 132% FTP and final one at 128%… FTP probably a little lower than it should be…
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Follow up on my VO2 block:
I did a shortened version Mist+1. The plan was to do a 4x4min of the sloping tops in Mist+1 and then call it a day. The 3.rd top my legs almost fell off, and I had to cut short. Did some extra recovery and then did the 5.th with a goal of holding 3 minutes. I Think the 2 minutes between tops are a bit short, and I will make myself a modified version of this with only 4 tops and added 1 minute in the recovery.
I cannot understand have I should be able to do the complete Mist+1…
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Dade +1 this morning.
I went through this back in January and every pedal stroke came flooding back 
This is me, right on the edge. I can hold my form in the drops and control my breathing to an extent but, I know that I pushed myself to my limit.
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Stuffed this at the beginning of my mid-Century-plan recovery week to try to make up for terrible compliance three weeks ago. Heeeeaaaaavy legs by the end. Not really burning, just full of lead. Can I like adapt myself a bigger set of lungs, is that a thing?
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[Zwift Academy 2019 Workout #5: 1min Power Duration]
Continuation of my group suffering, taking a break from solo TR suffering
(Zwift Academy 2019 Workout #5: 1min Power Duration | Strava)
x51 All time power PRs from 32secs to 1:22secs
Don;t think i set my best 1 min power, dropped off in last 10-15 seconds in first effort, went too hard at start, but now I have a target in mind for any future efforts..
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Beech for me, accidentally. Meant to do Birch to directly compare against last Thursdays ride to evaluate how i’m getting over the flu. Too many tree based workouts! (I also found there is an Abbot and and Abott…)
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2nd workout, today was Bashful +1. Legs were burning, but I finished and was fully compliant!
It feels awesome actually following a plan, now just to stick to it!
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After a week off on holiday with nothing but walking and chilling out I’ve returned to Short Power Build with Ansel Adams -2. Just pushed a weeks gap into my schedule.
Doable but very difficult and set 5 was a bit of a disaster.
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Ramp test, PR, +7 watts. Followed that up with Truuli-1 to make a really solid day.
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I like Lazy Mountain because I can do it in my pajamas.
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Fang Mountain +1. Kept resisting the workout texts suggestion to bump up intensity. So fecking pleased I did by the time the last interval came around…
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Had Sonora on the calendar, but decided to switch it out with a Zwift race. I have my A race next weekend so I want to get those competitive juices flowing. It worked! I set PBs across the board.
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Failed Kaiser. Again. I’ve got to do something like a VO2Max build-up mini-camp or something. Slowly build up from 60s intervals up to those 3 min jobs. Maybe do a mixer - 3mins, 1 min, 3mins, etc.
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Chad (actual Chad, not Other Chad) has a mini-plan for this!
(How’s your climate/airflow situation?)
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Was reading that reference thread before I posted, thanks. That’s what I’m probably going to do - that or start a “I suck - I mean I really suck - me too” thread.
No, I don’t have a climate excuse. The basement is at a pretty constant temperature winter/summer - certainly drier in the winter with the heating, but nothing worth noting. And I have the same fan in my face year-long.
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