TR Eichorn adapted into my plan last night. I decided to take it again to the virtual world. Probably the closest I’ll ever get to Colorado but it looks nice 
Eichorn is basically 2x20 at 90%. I’ve held slightly more than that for an hour and 4 mins back in August on a TT so I was pretty confident and I think it worked out ok.
Woke up this morning dreading today’s workout. Start of the Specialty block means only one thing: Ramp Test. 
Updated weight before starting, up 1.3lbs since last test (so not much difference really). Made sure to carb up at lunch and popped a leftover Maurten CAF100 gel that I snagged at my last race. FYI they aren’t that bad, even if the caffeine always adds that weird after taste. I always test in aero bars so I put my head down, turned on Chad’s Mixed Bag #2 from Spotify and went to work. When I finally looked at progress it was 1 step below the break even point. Made it almost 45 seconds into the next full step after break even which means…
Stopped because my cadence started to crawl to a halt from the upper 80s. Probably could have mashed the pedals a few seconds more, but ugh!!!
With new FTP comes new responsibilities. And new Progression Levels. Looks like almost everything was reset to 1.0s. Huh. Welp, I will trust the process and leave things as is for now. This is my first Specialty phase in all these years of TrainerRoad so since I don’t know how this is gonna feel it should be okay to prep rolling with the training punches. First because I would always reschedule whatever plan I was on and it would revert back to Base Phase in all cases, lol.
Anywho, that test still felt horrible but at least the numbers are back to where they were in August. 8-weeks until Ironman Arizona. 
Klawatti is no joke. Well done.
Thanks 
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My HRM died before my workout on Monday, and the new one hasn’t arrived yet. I do wonder if I am better off without it. No reminder of the suffering 
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Thank goodness for Intervals ICU.
I hadn’t run into Klawatti before – it looks like a great workout to throw in towards the end of my current progression. One of the things I really enjoy about the advent of AT is that I feel like I’m finding more workouts that scratch the itch of the week/month than before, and with far less effort digging through the catalog to find them (I realize I say that after finding out about a workout the old-fashioned way).
Suggested by TrainNow. The thought of a VO2 max / threshold mash up really appealed today. And the name…
Watch your back.
Infamy, infamy…
, maybe I haven’t lost too much with dropping number of workouts and adding my running. 
Solid Sweet Spot session this afternoon. AT thinks it was a struggle which is more than a little disappointing. I was a few Watts under and had a high HR, but both of which were to be expected on my work setup with no fan.
The only way to get it to not ask why I struggled is if I put “easy”, but it wasn’t exactly easy even though I didn’t “struggle”.
Pays to not get too hung up on these things, but I’m happy with it.
@liam_mail, Isn’t there an option to select “I didn’t struggle?” Well done, nonetheless.