Easy recovery ride. After yesterday work out, today I was Pedaling squares. After 60min everything was smoothing out. Hoping tomorrow’s work out I can do
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Carson today. RPE was a bit higher after the over unders from yesterday. But still not that hard. Kinda hoping that a bump is incoming. I feel really strong latest two weeks.
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2 sets of 2x3-min vo2 intervals, targeting 12 minutes of intensity. Haven’t done 3-min intervals in a long time. Based on PDC I was targeted 300-330W. Overcooked the first interval a bit, and knew the end was coming soon in interval 4 so I pulled the plug because Saturday was a very strong vo2 stimulus and even with only 10 minutes of intensity this should also be a strong stimulus (for me).
Bagged 17 seconds worth of all-time power PRs around 3 minutes. Fresh is faster, and less (intervals) can be more. The art of training seems to be about finding the minimum effective dose so you can recover and grow stronger 
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Nice and chilled endurance session this morning. Feels good to use the trainer for something other than pain 
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First interval felt great, but both legs were wrapped in a thick fatigue blanket by the end. Maybe I’ve been overly optimistic with all the extra endurance bits I’ve been adding to SusPBMV, I don’t know. Just gotta survive the weekend and I can chill for a week 
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Woke up this morning like “uhh this looks hard” then I started it and I felt really good throughout it. I was surprised I didn’t flag during the 99% interval (middle) and thought my power would be all over the show by the end of the third interval but here we are. My heart rate is so high - I look at @chad chilled ramp test earlier in the week and my heart appears to be bouncing around my chest!
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Was harder than expected. Low cadence. This feels so much harder inside. Guess it’s cause there is no rest… 
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Andrews outside for me today. Kinda overshot it a bit .79 IF instead of .7. Wasn’t really focused today and had a hard time to stay on target. Don’t know what it was. Lack of focus, too much wind, dressed too warm. HR was too high as well. We’ll see what tomorrow brings…
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Whorl for me.
Over lockdown I’ve gone from Thursday being a rest day, to recess to pettit to now whorl. So far nothing really negative - the reality is I’m just not as active as I was in the office. Step count way down (for example). Anyway, we’ll see.
I probably have time for high volume, but trying to be conservative and stick with MV, and add in extra endurance volume at the end of workouts (sometimes by accident or design) or add in an extra endurance workout (like today).
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FYI, you probably meant to tag Coach Chad Timmerman. His forum tag is @ Chad (no space, but I didn’t want to tag him here).
Whoops! Thanks for that. I’ll edit my original post now 
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Completed Galena for the second time this week, with results much better than the first and much easier to complete. Might have something to do with being fuelled correctly before my ride today - whereas, earlier in the week I had birthday cake instead of my usual porridge!
I’m not a scientist, but I think that this proves proper fuelling works, despite the test sample not being a statistically significant sample 
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Phoenix. It was slightly hard, but adequate. My legs seems to be slightly tired because of yesterday run wo.
Then a 30 minute brick. My HR was slightly elevated but it was ok.
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Learning how to maintain power outside - so planned Boarstone outside but the result was something like Ochoco. Z2 outside is so much enjoyable than on the trainer, especially when you get some PR’s not even trying (or even holding yourself to not cross power zones)
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Four years ago I used the CTS plans on Strava, and became familiar with these types of sessions. The Time Crunched Cyclist book has them as well. Believe they are also in the Training and Racing with a Power Meter book. Compliance is giving it everything and walking away knowing you left it on the road. Good stuff 
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Gibbs +1
Z1 ride and one tomorrow. Decided that to spice things up I’d throw in some sprint efforts since I haven’t done those in a while. Kicked my Neo into resistance mode for the first time for the sprint section.
However, I felt like I ran out of gears trying to hit a sprint max. Turns out I had the resistance mode set to 15% resistance. Wasn’t sure what that meant but after some searching learned that it’s TR’s way of controlling the trainer resistance level. Tbh, it’s not really clear to me what that means but I did learn to set it at 50% and then adjust if you think it’s too hard or too easy. If anyone has an original Tacx Neo and wants to comment on what they’ve found works, I’m all ears.
Another Z1 ride before a day off.
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I don’t have a Neo (Kickr), and wanted to ask if Neo also supports level/standard/whatever mode. When connected via Bluetooth, TrainerRoad supports the following modes on Kickr (with Wahoo descriptions in quotes):
- Erg
- Level/Standard: “like riding on a fluid or wind trainer, the faster you go, the harder it gets. The level you select determines the progression of your power curve”
- Resistance: “like adjusting the brake in spin class… Regardless of speed, resistance will remain the same”
In my experience, level mode works best as it behaves like being outside and sprinting.
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No, in the app there’s no level mode. I think its because the Neo doesn’t use a power curve per se but it is set by an algorithm in the trainer itself.
I need to check it out more tbh. Though, when I hit the final top gear and was going hard, I had a moment of, “oh shit, I can do 2200 watts on the neo!” I was sadly mistaken.
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Dug deep today. The fatigue buildup over this block is showing, especially after doing Kaiser with @paulgrav @Mark0930 @GregElwell the other day. Got some PRs at least
(note I have not quite high-volume yet :D)
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