What workout did you do today? (2020, part 2)

Dade +5 (fail)

Bluebell (partial)

I’m on the third week of SusPB. Legs are super tired. Gave up on Dade +5, opted instead for Bluebell.

Experimented with standard mode during the last set of intervals of Bluebell since I already had 20+ minutes at VO2 at that point and didn’t need (or want) to do the whole set.

Recovery week can’t get here soon enough!

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I am so ready for recovery week, too! This sustained power build is really tough. Looks like a great idea substituting Bluebell for Dade and still getting the VO2 work done! Nice!

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Just finished my Ramp💀 weighed in @158.6 Ibs/71.9 Kg this morning. Going into 2nd half of general build mid volume now!

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Thanks. I got the time in zone, but not the progression of increasingly longer VO2 intervals. I plan to attempt Dade +5 again during the first week of the next block. I don’t always retest FTP in between blocks, but if I do I usually do it at the end of the recovery week and redo the VO2 workout from week 3. I already had Dade +5 scheduled in week 5 before today’s failure. Details in the link below.

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Well I said I was going to a workout to empty the tank for my festive recovery week. Turns out the fuel light was on before I got to the end of the street. Didn’t quite need to pick a 0.93IF 2:30 workout - made it halfway and ‘got spat’ just as the hardest bit started!

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Fair play for even taking a run at that beast :muscle:

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Kamikaze mission! It was quite enjoyable having so much variation in a workout. Not the sort of thing I usually go for at all - I got new PRs from 5:30 - 8:30 and definitely wasn’t ready for those kinds of effort! I’ll probably try it again sometime when I’m fresher to see how far I can get. Also sensing some VO2 max work would be massively beneficial for me!

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Doing time crunched maintenance at the moment. Sessions are 45 minutes on the trainer which is keeping me interested, but the I.F is generally high. Onwards.

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accidental double post

My New Year’s resolution is to work on not seeing an intensity reduction on some of the harder workouts as a personal moral failing.

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I hate morning workouts.

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Off to visit my partner’s family for the holidays so I squeezed this guy in before my rest week. Felt pretty good, excited for my next block after I return home

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I hope the US Mansfield is more cycle friendly than the UK Mansfield. I can’t imagine 4 of them :scream:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-nottinghamshire-40974380

The 4th edition did seem more friendly :thinking:

I’m not sure Intervals.icu is identifying that Z1 interval correctly, I don’t Coggan’s zones are that closely spaced.

I probably need to up my FTP a bit though as I am managing relatively too easily the power zones in a lower HR zone. It does give a nice psychological boost though.

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Whiteside +2. Some rest during christmas now I think :sleeping:

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Substituted Bashful +1 for Bluebell today, I prefer the shorter 30s rest over the 1min in Bluebell. Bumped the last set up by a whole 1%. :sweat_smile: Was also interested to see how my cadence changed with each set. I kept it a little more constant in the first two, and in the last one I picked it up a bit more for each interval.


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Wow!!! 73!!! That’s really really impressive!

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I was supposed to do Stromlo +4, but I really didn’t like Stromlo +3, so I moved it to Christmas where I can “forget” to do it, and did my Friday SS workout instead today:

After VO2 max, SS is so kind, until about the fourth interval. Then it starts to be hurtful, too. :laughing:

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A perfect workout for some tv time before work.


Sweet spot with lots of rest in between. Happy days.
I got bored by the last interval and managed to find the Neo2’s limits with low cadence/low flywheel speed. You get that with midrange MTB gearing sometimes.

205 workouts to go.

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:partying_face: that vo2max!

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Pettit for me:


This is the last week of SweetSpot Base LV1, so it’s not as demanding as the other weeks. Did well

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