My second successful over and under workout. This right out of bed with a couple of gels and a bottle of HEED. On a borrowed trainer.
Save my Stroopwaffles from United flights to use later on bike rides. My wife is forbidden from buying them for me. Pro Tip – United also has amazing Albanese gummy bears on international flights (as opposed to Haribo).
OK, with sugar / carbs out of the way, today was a nice solid 1 x 60 min +/- VT1. Still boring. Not as easy as it sounds.
Still adjusting to the increased demands of SSBMV2. Yesterday’s threshold workout “Donner” got me. I was blowing up about halfway through the 2nd interval and had to dial it down by 5%, but was able to complete it after that.
Tonight did “Clark”. Glad I can still manage my sweet spot workouts but just barely. The stomps in this one were kind of fun though, until I realized how hard it is to recover by settling back into sweet spot. Felt super productive though, looking forward to taking it super easy tomorrow.
Leconte today, notched down a few % to reflect FTP as it exists, not as I wish it to be… last hard one of SSB2 LV. Actually, quite happy with this as I’ve been digging myself out of a hole of overreaching, and this week was the first real signs of getting out. Oddly, the fade at the end wasn’t heart rate, leg burn, or gasping breath - it was just gradually loss of contractility - couldn’t keep any cadence going.
This was also the last leg of a working professional’s one-day stage race. By that I mean:
- Having to get up 2.5 hours earlier than usual for an atypical work day
- Driving 3 hours to a field site
- Hiking four hours over rough rocky terrain, which I very rarely do, getting pummeled with technical questions from co-workers and colleagues
- Driving back for 3 hours
My pit crew for the day was 1) caffeine - can’t usually tolerate it, but once a month or so is okay 2) about 30 minutes of time lying down in alpha-wave state, not sleeping though 3) a new pair of bibs that landed in the mail today and 4) re-watching my football team win a playoff game.
Looking forward to the down week…!
That’ll be ‘final push syndrome’, I find this often when I’m absolutely hanging but just because it’s the last interval my head gets a rush of enthusiasm and my legs follow suit, lol!
Junction (yesterday, not today). I was worried about this one. Work and life in general meant I’d barely eaten or hydrated all day and just sat at a desk. With the resulting achey legs and feeling under-fuelled, I was reluctant to even start it. The warm up felt terrible, even just the 200W step felt tough…
…but I persevered and all was well. Hard, but doable.
Booked via Narco Travel 
Another date with Mary. Underfueled as my GF is on a diet so I support her … and I dream about something fried in a bun 
The workout - Mary as usual, hard and taxating but I do not understand her reputation. Leconte was a killer O/U for me and Mary is not harder than any other workout with similar IF. The power drop in the middle was me opening the door for a building’s administrator.
Avalanche spire+2 - felt pretty easy - HR only up to 163 even on the 105% segments @ 310W - even lower than last weeks HR on Fang Mountain+2 - easy week next week and then a Ramp test before starting my hybrid version of SPB (only VO2/Supra threshold sessions plus SS/endurance - I’m not killing myself 3xweek at the age of 51!) …weather is dry and cold here in the UK - fingers crossed my group are out tomorrow to save me from Wright Peak -1! 
Her reputation was built on the full version, before Coach Chad modified SSB2 to use the -1 version in November 2018.
That was my assumption as well - thank you for confirming this
