Obelisk
Just an easy recovery workout tonight, but I wanted to get a ride in after a busy day today and planning on push mowing the yard for 3.5 hours tomorrow.
Massive congratulations 
Townsend instead of Pettit because I have time:
Heart rate spike near the end is when my Golden Retriever wanted to play fetch and almost tipped the bike over 
was it ellotheth’s dog wanting to play fetch? 
Completed Monitor this morning. This is my first attempt at structured training and 4 workouts down now after the initial ramp test last week, really enjoying it so far. Never really done any road riding before just mtb once a week/once every 2 weeks, so hoping for a lot of room for improvement and maybe start entering races once everything gets back to some sort of normal. I am 30 and interested to see how far i can push myself.
Baxter as a bit of endurance and recovery from yesterday’s VO2 session - rest of the week is outside I feel - something easy tomorrow, training tt on the road bike Friday, zone 2 sunbathing Sat/Sun is the plan… 
I have decided to put my FTP to the test - Kolie Moore Progression 1 after another two weeks of threshold and I was very (positively) surprised - 15W up, with increased TTE. I have 10 more minutes, at this pace, in the tank for sure. Decoupling was 0.5% so quite happy with pacing (my first fully self paced FTP test).
So simple methods are the best - if you want to be good at threshold riding, ride at threshold 
With all of the “real” events cancelled or postponed for the foreseeable future I’m using some of the more epic Zwift rides as my ‘A’ and ‘B’ events. With that in mind, I’ve got The Mega Pretzel on the calendar for this Saturday, so I’m tapering this week just like I would for any other big event. Am I crazy? 
I know it’s virtual, but some of these rides are tough! The Mega Pretzel is 66.5 miles with 5387′ of elevation gain.
The beginning of the taper was last night with Basin -5.
Thank you 
Only the guys and gals here care 
my wife does not and is not remotely interested. My daughter well she loves her daddy so she listens 
Thank goodness for TR Forum!!!
Yes, you are crazy but we all are to one degree or another!!! Good idea. I also was thinking of doing some killer workouts that would mirror my A event that was scheduled for this Friday. However, I just a a really good FTP result so now I´m going to chase a number then power down and ramp it back up for my rescheduled A race… Well that is if its safe.
Good luck!
Dunderberg -1 up today. Staking my claim that the 40k TT specialty plan is the most grueling plan out there both mentally and physically. Pretty great benchmark workout for my A race later this year, looking to go under an hour at the Mt. Washington hillclimb. Based on this effort, (325 NP for 59:32) I need to shed 10lbs from my setup, or gain 15 watts. A combo seems achievable between now and mid August!
- I am excited asI am 3 months shy of 60years old. I thought I´d never crack 300. Man I wish I was back in my heyday
This is tremendously motivating for us older riders, superb effort, congratulations.
