How strange - it’s a 3.6 for me. What number does it have if you look at Bald Knob by pulling it up in the workout list?
It must be because you are too fast so it’s easy for you, @HLaB !
Dicks+5 (FAIL!)
Failure for me today. My head just wasn´t enough there to push HARD. Plus my yesterday evening 2hr outdoor ride was maybe little bit too hard. Plus is quite hot in my apartment now in summer → increased RPE (I would need one more fan or even A/C). Plus I think I´m little bit losting motivation as I just can´t push myself to limit anymore=/
To get planned 2hr riding i did Baxter-2
Apple Orchard +2 (with an extended warmup). I kind of struggle with these “float” workouts. I’m doing these on a dumb trainer, so it takes a lot of concentration to keep up the wattage on the float portion. You can see that by the last set, I kind of gave up and just concentrated on the hard 15" intervals. Anyone else on a dumb trainer have this issue?
Mary Austin -1 Gapless
Altered Mary Austin -1 so I could do Alpe du zwift without stopping. Then realised there was the weekly race which was around an hour in duration, so opted for that.
Skipped a warm up interval to align count down clocks for start of event and at the end I had to pause the recording for 2km so I didn’t lose resistance at the end. Home made workouts don’t have the choice of extended warm down, well my effort didn’t.
Shattered after this, got to recover for a hike in mountains tomorrow so I’ll skip the days scheduled workout.
When creating custom workouts there is a setting in Workout Creator to determine which intervals “count.” By default it is 50%, and if your very first or last interval are at or below this value then the extend warmup/cooldown buttons will show and work. Otherwise they don’t. In your workout above I can’t tell if the first interval is at/below 50% but the last interval is definitely above it.
Thanks for the heads up, the final one isn’t below 50%, I will ensure next time is ![]()
I did my first AT-ified Sustained Power Build suprathreshold workout and I didn’t turn myself inside out or feel absolutely shattered afterwards. This is weird.
I didn’t do all that well on McAdie this morning and am thinking about switching to the new Century / Fondo specialty plan. Sure would be nice to be in the beta, though, to dial in the levels. The VO2 and Threshold are probably right for where I am right now, but Sweet Spot is way too easy. I guess I could manually stick with the original Century plan progression just for Sweet Spot …
AT hasn’t touched the SS at the end of the week for me (despite my SS level being much higher than those workouts), so I’m wondering if those are supposed to be that easy. I think they’re there not as a muscular endurance progression, but as a lower-intensity aerobic conditioning progression. (That’s not how I’ve thought about them at all in the past, so it’s breaking my brain a little bit but I’m going to give it a shot!)
Was meant to be the weekly fast club ride to feed my competitive needs but didn’t go due to weather. Hopped in a Zwift race instead - haven’t done one for ages and ended up with an 8th place in Cat A on Watopia flat course. Couldn’t get my legs to do anything in the sprint!
Finished up with Carter to cooldown. Competitive itch scratched ![]()
Back to back posts it would seem! Eclipse +3 this morning - all good, that kind of manageable sweetspot pain which one becomes accustomed to over time. What was a real pain though was my PC completely shutting down 1h30m into the workout! Had to restart, reload and finish up the final 20m interval. Stitched the FIT files together to get a full workout…
Looking forward to a rest day tomorrow.
Another one from the new cohort for me. In the olden days of yestermonth this probably would have been a Dade or Mills variant? I miss the 40% recoveries but the 5-minute offs were nice!

















