Was going to mountain bike today but didn’t get the bike suspension rebuild finished yesterday. Only to find out the frame was cracked anyway. Poop happens and far better found in the workstand than landing a jump or drop off on trail.
After mucking around with that was kinda demotivated to workout so just hopped on the trainer for an hour and a half. Used Gibbs as a template then pretty much ignored it and rode LT1 :->
Week #2 of SSB MV 1.5 coming up this week. Happy and motivated to be following a plan again.
Big distractions continued the last two weeks but the extra time off was beneficial for me I felt fresher than I have in over a month. After two days of TR work I pulled my son around for 10 miles on the trail a bike. Feels good to be back at it. Here’s me picking up on plan builder SSB2:
Recovery week from Short Power Build… nice little group ride yesterday with a 20 min “race” in the middle… threw down an attack with 2K to go and got caught at the line but finished second.
Work trip this week, starting a two week step back to SSB2 work before starting Crit specialty. Taylor -3 isn’t much of a challenge, esp after short power build, so subbed in Brasted… 30/15s instead of 30/30s. Next week, I’ll do Rattlesnake in honor of @Captain_Doughnutman in place of Taylor -2…
“Why not both?”
flavour them differently (‘the ride’ vs ‘the work’, and cross-link as/where ‘fitting’)
[I do this… or one or the other depending ‘pleasure’ or ‘training’… all my rides are outside - “if I shouldn’t”, I hope someone will kindly tell me why not both ]
This is absolutely a milestone I’m tracking and it cracks me up. First it was yay my red line touches the blue! and now it’s someday my red line might stay in the blue!
Oh, Carillion, i like the ringing of…
Oops, sorry, getting carried away
Nice ride. Thought I’d pay the excesses of the weekend, but it’s all going well.
New shoes seem to be helping with various pains around my legs. And booked a bike fit to sort these out in the long run
Ramp test that I’m not prepared to share or talk about. Very poor couple of nights sleep, resting heart rate up a bit this morning, but I’m not accepting a drop after nailing every workout of Sustained Power Build MV Part 1, including all the VO2 max workouts.
Have to say, unless this is the first signs of me being in the sick house, I’ll be back to questioning whether the ramp test works for me. Can I just use Lamarck as my testing protocol?
Bashful +2 - lopped off 4% right at the start, to bring the 125% intervals back to 120% and avoid failure like my last attempt. It worked. VO2Max intervals are not my cup of tea, but I got it done.
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