Bravo 
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Wow! That deserves some extra kudos 
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Holy crap!
If Lamarck gives a good estimation of FTP then I’ve just gone up 10.3% to 384😊
Intervals.icu had me at 378 but I didn’t believe it. I’ll wait until next week’s ramp test before making any changes.
It’s nice and all that, but not what I need going into Build stage
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It definitely looks like your killed that workout! Nice!!!
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Wrapped up SSBLV2 (my 2nd time) with Leconte to head into a well needed rest week. Really struggled through this one today and I saw it coming as I was grinding through Lamarck a couple days back.
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Been waiting to do this one for a while - it didn’t disappoint
was worried about my legs in the first couple of intervals having played golf and carried my bag for 18 holes yesterday but they came good in the end
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More sweet spot, found it hard enough to make a difference. Intervals icu had me at - 1.3% decoupling so all good. Onwards.
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I like swapping out a workout just to do one you’ve not done before. The 1 min intervals at 115-130% were my first time above threshold for a while - ouch!
Been feeling fatigued over the last couple of days - the longer hours are catching up with me (normally in the 7.5-10 hour range, and on course for 13 hours this week plus weights). Next week I’ll do some Tuesday SST, then go shorter and easier for the rest of the week.
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Gabb was on deck today, did it on the usual out and back stretch, bit of a challenge to keep the wattage up on the longer ones. For the 2x8min sets at the end, I went up a mild climb that I often use, too, takes 17-19 minutes depending on pace (had a headwind today), and only let off the gas a little bit for the recovery between those, made it a single 20min interval instead. I am looking forward to being done with the specialty phase though!
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Thank you!
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2x25 at 96% for 50 minutes of threshold. Not too difficult, just the final five minutes which seems to be the theme for me with this threshold progression. I think tomorrow I’ll stick with another 50 minute threshold work but with shorter intervals, probably 5x10 minutes. Then I want to give 1x45 a go next Tuesday with a goal of 1x60 in the near future!
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Ericsson
Was going to delay this until tomorrow, but have eaten too many sweets today so by 7:30pm felt guilty and got changed…
Maybe I should have waited until my dinner had gone down as I had a curry at 6:30pm but all good, pushed out a good steady last lap of the volcano on final interval, 115%, easy/rest day tomorrow.
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3,5h@75% FTP. Next time will be 4h. Not especially hard to be honest. Decoupling 2,5% so also okish. To summarise - just another boring base ride 
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Week in review:
Telework week so no commutes. Monday nothing on the MVSSB1 plan builder for April Crits, so I put in my 75 minute “routine builder”:
Tuesday Carson, pretty plain Jane:
Wednesday, I substituted my routine builder 75 for petit -1 because I wanted the additional saddle
time, but ended up getting some work calls. I think I still ended up covering the primary goal of the scheduled workout - active recovery, I just didn’t get the saddle time I wanted.
Thursday I had taken some vacation time when we were planning on traveling, so I wanted to get in the workout and then add volume. So I did the scheduled antelope-4:
As you see, I decided that it felt too easy. (When I re-tested after a one week break not too long ago, I only did the ramp test, which was resulted in a lower FTP than I’d been training at, but still the highest ramp suggested number ever. I left the FTP setting where it had been, a handful of watts higher than the ramp test, but likely a little too low.) And so I decided to see what a 10 minute interval would feel like in mental prep for whenever I take another 20 minute test. I really felt that interval, as I should have, and you see the final interval was the only one that barely held the target wattage.
Then, I added 75 minutes of outdoor, rainy and nearly raining riding on my old cx bike (no power, but very low zone 2 by heart rate and skills on wet leaves were the real goals).
Friday the plan calls for an off day, but off days are for hangovers and travel days, and I wasn’t traveling or hung over. I picked up my regular CX bike from the bike shop, rode home (10 rainy minutes) and then managed to ride petite -1 close to the intended intensity, but I still managed to pick up 7 extra TSS somehow (34 vs 27).
Saturday tends to be the keystone workout during this MV-SSB1 plan as built. PALISADE.
I was prepared to struggle bus in the back 3/5 intervals, but then I reminded myself that I’d just recently completed a 10 minute solid interval just above where the overs would be, so getting a few short reprieves should get me through the first 3/5. (Confidence in progression, accidentally from what was prescribed as SS only).
I was pleasantly surprised with my performance today. Upon further review, I missed one sweet spot 1:00 by three watts. Every other interval exceeded the target by a more significant amount. The final over 2:00, I asked, “Why not see if I can add something?” So I rode as hard as I thought as I could hold for two minutes. Instead of riding 105% FTP, I was able to ride about 116% to finish it off.
Tomorrow, I have Eclipse on the schedule (3x20 @ SS). I don’t foresee any issues (knocks on wood). And hopefully I’ll get my kids out for a dry outside ride. Total TSS will be somewhere in the 590 range and saddle time will be just over 10 hours (plus whatever the family ride takes). That’s a good week in my mind. I’ll update if there’s some sort of flame out, or I really deviate from the plan.
Edit:
No full family ride due to rain and crap-weather.
No deviation, I just wanted to update with the kid birthday party ride-by (nominal 1 TSS) and Eclipse ended up exactly at 590 TSS for the week.
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Antelope for me today:
Did well, but multiple equipment issues meant it was a bit spotty. Time to change out all the batteries methinks.
In other news, this is the same ride but shown in intervals.icu:
Pretty! Same ride mind. I wish you got extra TSS for the number of different programs you examine your ride in…
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I get extra stress from it, you don’t?
Its just not training stress… Its marital stress and parenting stress, and letting my low sprint power get to me.
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