The rain cleared and we had a glorious day on Saturday with plenty of sunshine and temps in the low 70’s that called for a nice, long 4 hour tempo ride with some hill training.
Then the cold front came through overnight and it was windy as hell on Sunday so I stayed inside and did Antelope.
Today was Mills. Hard near the end but doable. Recovery was enough to come to the intervals almost fresh. Today workout was fuled by gnocchi in spinach cream cheese sauce.
Oops I deleted my first workout today, super frustrating and time crunched so I just angry pedaled the last 20 min. Hoping support can retrieve - lesson learned.
Anyway, Carter on the rollers. I’m thinking I can do up to sweet spot work on the rollers but will spin out around current threshold. Tomorrow I will try Ericsson on the rollers.
Geiger +2 and 15 minutes of extra endurance work. Legs started to feel a little sluggish today, don’t know whether it’s because i couldn’t find something interesting to put on TV to pass the time, or because this is my 6th day straight of sweet spot. Planning on a lighter day tomorrow, Baxter or Andrews come to mind. We’ll see
First ride after Thanksgiving week off the bike, almost 4% FTP drop. I couldn’t catch my breath. I ignored the result because I survived McAdie +1 twice at 148, but I’ll take it if I crack on Kaweah this week.
Drop from 302 to 266 for me Whole fam came down with a vicious tummy bug two weeks ago then life happened so think I just lost my edge or something. If I’m honest I was only just holding 302 and I found it very challenging.
Ericsson on the old school Minoura rollers. Spikiness in the beginning w single leg drills that I abandoned. Confirmed that sweet spot and below works for the rollers, will spin out past that. I’m in tune with a virus I’m fighting and I almost bailed this am but I had the desire and energy so I’m going to use this to see how my body will respond to SS work while fighting something. Gonna stay on hydration and shoot for an early bedtime as well as a rest day tomorrow.
** To anyone looking closely it will seem odd that the squat is so low compared to the bench. Reason is I lift upper year round and have been consistent for several years. But have just started back into lower body work. Am super paranoid about my squat and deadlift form so start light, focus on technique and range of motion, and work up the weight over time during the winter.
Will probably keep up the leg work year round from here out though. I like the gym too much, weight bearing exercise is healthy and have set some PR goals which will require consistency to achieve.