This has become my go-to workout to kickoff a new block of training when skipping the ramp test. Gets the high end energy systems firing again. Gives a good bit of confidence completing a tough but doable workout.
I’m starting Century Specialty but don’t really have an event planned. I have my eye on a couple of fall fondos / centuries but have not registered for any. Work is about to get crazy busy so I expect compliance to the plan to suffer and will make a long ride if work allows. Otherwise I’ll just kind of ease into the off season … and I’m ok with that. The mental challenge will be taking a proper off season complete with lower body weight training, instead of starting another base / build / specialty cycle.
I did an outdoors indoors work out today. Geiger adapted into my calendar. I fancied a change from the TR screen and heard RGT launched yet another new course in the light of the recent World’s, so I took it there. I set the feedback to 22% so my TT bike had virtually spinny gears.
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.
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.
Failed the 2.5 Threshold the other day, had some more rest, easy run yesterday and back with a 2.3, which I found not hard, moderate I think I rated it.
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).
Umpf, that was Very Hard. 5 x 7 / 3 @ 105%. Doubt I could have done another interval. AT got it just right, but now I have PL 5.6 over/unders on Saturday.
Have an A race on Saturday (our local CX series kickoff) so TR has me on a low volume week, but this was just the right intensity. Really pleased that the VO2max intervals just felt like spinning up a higher cadence. Emptied the tank on the last one.
Starlight-2 was in my calendar tonight but it probably wasn’t a good idea to have the Football (soccer) on the radio, the effort was rather lame. I’m not sure what’s happening with PLs, at first it said +0 which is about right, now it say +0.6
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, maybe I haven’t lost too much with dropping number of workouts and adding my running. 
