Donner. Another ride where I came home from work wanting to do anything but climb on the bicycle. But it’s done. Who needs motivation when you can tell your brain to shut up and make the legs spin.
Is 60% specific to your goals? I ask because I think that’s pretty low for a 90min decoupling assessment, but that depends on what you’re training for.
Motivation waxes and wanes. Discipline is foundational… discipline trumps motivation.
Sort of. That is an aerobic endurance ride that I intend to do every week. My decoupling usually stays quite low all year round, unless I take time off. More interested to see if there are minor changes up/down during the year.
Taku yesterday. Nice easy spin. Not much to really say.
Mount Field today. I love Sweet Spot work. It is my bread and butter, especially when it is broken up with leg speed drills, standing intervals and position changes to keep it interesting. Felt good this ride. Not too hard but also not too easy.
i did McAdie a month ago and in my notes, i respelled it: McA- DIE
Slight deviation from the SSB 2 plan this morning, as I’m not the biggest fan of Mills. Went hunting through the TR workout library and found this gem.
It’s fair to say that this was a step up from Bluebell and boy did it raise my heart rate! Just thankful I’ve been sprinkling VO2 in SS1 or this would have been a step too far.
The dreaded Kaweah. Long, not easy at all. Somehow I don’t need as much HR as before to do this, but it sure hurts. I went through @ellotheth’s 2 phases - sell the whole kit, wow I’m a superhuman - but a couple more after that - a second sell the whole kit phase, a deep dark meaning-of-life one, and a sort of redemption-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel worthy of a B-series Hollywood catastrophe flix.
I would watch this.
Pettit and ebbeett…
It was kinda weird trying to do the sprints… I decided to do resistance mode to be able to push faster on them… But the detection of power going to the wheel is slow at increasing whether it be sitting or standing sprint.
Last interval block i put on erg mode and it was just a weird feel to have that sudden “in the mud” feeling. I’m still feeling it today (the day after) in my legs.
I guess this is where a power meter would be real useful
Leavitt +2 - 90 min of continuous endurance/tempo/sweet spot. There might be something to it. I had to eat after an hour, felt hungry, smelled ammonia. I’m pretty tired after an unscheduled 1 hour mountain bike ride last night, after 36 minutes of sweet spot work yesterday AM - and up pretty early for this one. I’m ready for a rest day which is tomorrow. See you on Sunday!
