As a level 1.0 Anaerobic this terrified me. It was a 4.9 jump so labeled Not Recommended but it was on my calendar.
I had a threshold and vo2 max workout this week and I stupidly made my endurance ride a bit harder when feeling confident.
I had spent most of my week at work frustrated with an issue I can’t seem to solve and generally feeling fatigued from that going into an evening workout. I was anxious knowing that 40 on/20 off x5 was going to be really hard. I looked at alternatives. I couldn’t find one I liked.
So when time came to ride, I loaded up the workout, put on some tunes, hopped in the saddle and hit extend warmup a few times to delay the inevitable failure that I was sure was coming.
And then I nailed the first set of 5, heart rate was steady. 15 minutes later I’m gasping crossing the Richmond sprint finish line on Zwift but I’m halfway there. The next one I dropped a pedal stroke at the end of one segment but continued on. My heart rate drift was starting to not let me settle down to 115bpm between but I had one set left. And I did it.
I don’t often find moments of great joy from riding the trainer but today was not a usual day. Because I dug deep and tried something I wasn’t sure I could do.
Got a new trainer (Elite Suito) this week. I did a couple quick spins to get it set up, but I’ve been short on time, so tonight was the first proper workout.
Never have done a workout in erg mode before, and as you can see, in the last interval I got to experience the erg death spiral. That was something. I think this is going to take some getting used to.
One more week of the FasCat 10-Week Lifting Program, which, from a cycling perspective, closely matches Traditional Base MV. I definitely feel stronger having done the FasCat lifting plan and I think my FTP is the same or even higher than at the end of last season. I would love it if TR added a similar plan to their library.
Then I start the program Plan Builder put together toward my A event. I swapped out SSB MV for the 6-Week Polarized MV plan. Looking forward to some more intensity and giving the POL plans a fair shake!
Not too bad, could probably have done another interval, the 19min cool down was terminal My power dropped just 3W from 1 minute to 16 minutes so pretty even power.
I have one Tickr X that gets stuck at a bpm at the beginning of a workout. I thought it was because the strap was going bad but turned out to not be the case. I think there’s another thread on HRMs but DCRainMaker recommends the Polar H9 or H10.
Got my butt kicked today. I was pretty anxious about it, but had high hopes based on where my fitness had been.
I have a few theories, chief amongst which is that I did too much on Saturday. I usually do my bigger days Mon, We’d, Fri, with Saturday being a standard sort of 60-90min SS workout.
It looks from the power profile when you’re cadence collapses you didn’t quite die 
My power dropped just 3W from 1 minute to 16 minutes so pretty even power.
