God I hate hard start vo2max work. Also 2 more days of this… send help
Nothing major from me tonight. I decided last week to lower the intensity of my midweek endurance ride to a purer recovery ride. So it was Pettit-1 rather than Pettit for me tonight.
To keep it kinda interesting I did it on the RGT virtual Borrego course and practiced holding my TT position for the hour.
These are a lot more fun when they’re eight minutes long and there are four of them.
(Yes, I 100% skipped the isolated leg drill because it is LITERALLY THE WORST.)
Felt exactly as prescribed - uncomfortable, but do-able. Good stuff. Also happy with my HRRc between intervals.
Mount Wood
First interval was worse than the last. Ditched the HRM midway through the set. I bought a cheap Lifeline HRM for indoor workouts a few weeks ago to save my garmin tri for runs and bricks. It was pretty good for about 4 weeks but is nearly completely useless now. If I stand up, go aero or sweat too much it drops down to 40-60bpm. I’ve had to swap over to the garmin mid-workout the last couple of times. I just gave up on it today. Did get good info out of it for one interval I guess - HR well depressed. All easy now until Sunday so I’ll get some recovery in.
Thimble +4 which was not fun after tuesday’s Spanish needle +2
Monitor +1
Legs felt good so pedalled through.
Rest day tomorrow and then onto two weekend workouts I shall be compliant with…else I’ll be having words with myself.
i did a 60 min hilly zone2 run at lunch today (i need to move to a flatter neighborhood) and have Tower coming-up in another hour or so. I’m really nervous about it for some reason. Might do Tower - 1 instead.
Fang Mountain +1
WFH = no commute = some Z2 at the end!! Back to the office tomorrow, though. 
New (virtual) bike day on Zwift. Adjusted saddle height IRL to get rid of some pressure points and saddle sores. Dropped it 6 mm two days ago - a tad bit too far as I was getting some IT band soreness during the first half of the ride. Much better after a slight raise.
It felt too easy on Tuesday night and I ended up with an IF of 0.92 for the VO2max session but tonight I was brought back down to earth and struggled to an IF of 0.86. After 12 mins in TT position a recovery block and another 5 mins in the TT position I sat up and that where it started to go pear shaped. I deliver more power in the TT position but don’t seem to get enough air in, so come up for it (its maybe psychological). After I started getting ragged it was well below target when I sat up, on or above when I was down and that led to a dropping cadence. After it I feel like I have been constantly shouting at a football match. Coincidently the Scotland game was on the radio but I wasn’t exactly shouting at it 
A week ago today I took on and crushed Baird +2 so I figured Bashful +2, while not a cinch, would be doable.
HF, that was a few steps up from Baird+2. I got through the first set and took a backspin during the rest interval. Second set came, and during one of the rest intervals I took a backspin. During the second and last rest interval more backspinning and yes during the last set I took backspins during the rest intervals. LOL, when the cool down came…I took a backspin! I missed on one of the work intervals but overall my IF and TSS exceed plan. No shame, I did this and racked up considerable time in zone.
Golden Cheetah bins 20+ minutes of the power into the anaerobic bucket about 34% of the workout and 2+ minutes of V02Maxx power. Active recovery and endurance account for 57% of the workout – that is NOT polarized! TR calls this a V02MAX workout I think Chad has different ideas of the power bands than does Mark.
i got off the bike and mixed up some chocolate milk with Skratch recovery mix. I’m taking much more of that and with n=1 (plus with some “recovery breathing”) it seemed to help me with my sleep. Also plenty of yogurt and a dinner of spaghetti with a tomato sauce, some fruit, and a couple glasses of garnacha.
Junction -1 is next and a blessed recover week.
Bashful +2
