I had to shuffle my calendar a little due to a business trip earlier in the week and another one upcoming but wasn’t feeling ready enough for Saturday’s VO2 workout after yesterday’s threshold. So I opted for Sunday’s sweet spot workout (Wright -2) but needed to use Alternates to find one that fit the time I had. As it was I shortened the recovery intervals due to taking a longer warmup (great tip, @runriderandi, I’ve used this several times since you mentioned it!). Shout out to @IvyAudrain and the TR team for providing such flexibility to easily adjust the training plan around life (eg calendar drag/drop, alternates, PLs, etc).
Yeah, I was trying to do a short vo2 block and had one more week scheduled but I think I’m done.
Wednesday was definitely very hard, so much so that I took yesterday very very easy instead of doing this yesterday. Then this today which I felt like may have almost been all out, but I have a hard time using that score
Good to know! Thanks! I’ll keep it in mind for when I do a plan! I’m not doing a plan this year I kinda burned myself out with two straight years. My structured training is kinda unstructured these days!
Having not done proper VO2 since November and having a VO2 PL of 1.2 I had to guess a bit as to what my four-minute Power would be and what Level workout to dial up. The structure was perfect, though it was definitely tough. Made harder by still recovering from a minor cold. Usually I’d be pretty hesitant to do VO2 with any sickness, but it seemed well and truly above the neck and I’ve had to push Build around several times already this year. Hopefully I don’t take a step back because of it and can jump back in on Wednesday with Monterey.
Volunteer -1 (30 min, avg power 104 W)
Not been on the bike or done any meaningful exercise since January.
Now, 3 month after the traumatic birth of my firstborn (thankfully baby and partner both ok) - finally managed to get back on.
The road is going to be long, the watts are way down and the kgs the most I’ve been.
Still, gotta start somewhere!
Extreme newbie here – in it for fun and the numbers go up game.
Gendarme-6, first ride after ramp test. Ramp test did not go as I expected, took 36min. Accepted the result and letting TR platform drive my program. Super excited to see where TR and I can go this next year.
I said I was done with the vo2, but decided to do just one more. And now I can say for sure that I am done with this block. Fatigue is high, motivation is low. Time to do a few fun rides before I start really getting ready for next year!
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