Always very pleasant. Something about the structure makes it very enjoyable, as far a sweetspot goes anyway .
Tallac up later, but might head outdoors -weather is pretty nice today. Plus, have a 200km cycle tomorrow and the bike’s just back from a service. Would probably be wise to make sure everything’s in working order.
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Carpathian peak was on the schedule but fancied a change so I jumped into a Zwift race. Plenty of threshold work there, with plenty of over and unders!
Did Corcoran -8 Wednesday, trainer didn’t have it’s day. Did the +1 version today. Hard, very hard but managed. It broke me in the final seconds of the last interval. A RPE 10. All Out
Did another double today. I’m slowly settling in to my Polarized Plan. At my age, definitely having 3 full off the bike days per week is good for the recovery and I can functional strength training on the off days.
Pretty happy with my progression since November. Lower HR per power output is definitely a plus.
Spanish needle for me last night. Found it quite challaging bu the end but managed to complete all the 99 burst at target power or at least the best I could average with the bit of lag from erg mode. Had to use erg mode wouldn’t like to have to try amd find the right heating for each interval and rest period, think that this would take too much brain power on a already quite taxing workout. Lost about 5 percent of the target power because of this lag which I can live with.
Took a lot out of me to be honest but to be expected having never done this volume of sprints in one session before.
Wouldn’t even consider attempting this workout outside.
Now to recover before the next tough session, a sweet spot ride tonight
Catching up. Townsend Friday as per! Then yesterday was meant to be the fast club ride but rain stopped play here in the U.K. so I did SusPB workout that was planned (Palisade) indoors instead. All felt good albeit the final 2 mins of each interval got me needing to be in full focus mode.
Skipped the planned Juneau -1 today to head outside in the sun/warm. Didn’t have an ideal route planned for the workout so just went and enjoyed myself riding my bike over a lovely 100km
Was expecting rain so stayed indoors, no rain🤷♂️. Starting new build next week, so no harm taking it handy anyway. I’d have overdone it outdoors anyway most likely.
I done a open TT in the morning but stupidly let my pm go to sleep and mis paced it.
Given I still had energy and there was still plenty of the day left I dropped an impromptu tempo work out in for outdoors. I was quite pleased with my level of compliance to the workout. Except when I thought I’d lost something out of my pocket and I spent 5-10minutes out looking for it.
Skipped one interval in the third set, cut short one in the fourth, and reduce the intensity 5% for the last two intervals. VO2 has been kicking my butt for the last four weeks.
Legs felt tired and used after this one… final interval extended as I’d been doing KOM repeats on Zwift and decided to complete the climb even though I’d told myself not too. Spencer only a week away
I am happy to see the TR updates include the progression levels against workouts - I am in turn looking forward to seeing our personal progression levels in due course alongside the assignment of achievable, not recommended and break through status as todays efforts certainly felt like the latter.
Happy with getting through it relatively unscathed but it hurt at the time!
One of the new workouts was in my calendar, Wild Snow. I was wanting some TT practice but I was also expecting a delivery and didn’t think I’d have time. So I prepped the turbo. The package came on time though. So I quickly took the bike off the turbo and headed out. Too quickly I had the wrong shoes/cleats on and had to come back and change.
Given the delay I started the workout on the shared path, I usually wait until I am off it and over the footbridge and railway level crossing.
I’m quite pleased with how the bike shifted/ handled. I think thicker gloves protected my damaged fingertips and made things feel smoother