Supra-threshold with the new FTP. This felt good. I was working but both my legs and lungs felt comfortable throughout.
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Some outside rides on Mon/Tues getting up to speed on technical sustained descents. Some tweaks to my new suspension on Mon. And Tues was spent building my confidence, or lack there of, in the wet.
And today, Rattlesnake. Felt easy which was surprising and awesome!
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Bumped up the intervals a little to make this 4 x 10 / 3 @ FTP. Felt like I could have done another interval, but I’m looking forward to a couple of days completely off for vacation and as a mid-plan break between base and build.
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Oy … I’d rather do threshold repeats. Well done, nonetheless!
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Honestly, it was pretty easy. Long breaks.
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I’m pretty proud of this one! It was hard. Couldn’t seem to get my cadence right until the second set. Always seems to take me a bit to remember to pedal faster.
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This is a new one for me, really enjoyed it. Tough but doable. The first interval was the hardest, once the legs got going it wasn’t so bad. Those last couple of overs of each set are pretty rough though.
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Question for you guys – my plan is coming to an end as it was built around this first “A” race on the 24th. I have 5 more enduros in the summer/fall (1 each in June, August, and September, and 2 in October), and 2 or 3 XC sprinkled in. The first XC is at the end of May, which I plan to do. The other XC are up in the air. The XC will all be “C” races, with the enduros being “B’s” except I will target one in the fall as “A.”
The question is, how do I balance unstructured riding outdoors with indoor workouts – I dont have a power meter or a head unit to follow RPE workouts outside. And I like to just ride 3-4 times per week. I know I can fit 2 workouts in. Do I follow a plan and skip a workout? Do I use TrainNow? What training zones would I target in either case? SS, VO2, thresh, Z2?
Ive heard this come up on the pod, but I didnt quite get the straightest answer from what I heard. I appreciate any advice!
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Ready for my Rest “Week”. Four days completely off the bike I think. Then maybe a couple SS days then a few more days of off time.
Legs felt like garbage during the warmup and I thought it was going to be a Trainwreck. In the end I felt great.
I know I shouldn’t have, but I kicked at the end to go for 290NP.
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Thanks! Yes, there is an enduro plan, Ive been using it since November for this first A race.
Base phase shouldnt be a problem. My main concern with following the plan is that once it gets to build and specialty the prescribed LV workouts are Vo2/Vo2/thresh every week. Combined with outdoor rides I’m wondering if it will be too much intensity. It is pretty difficult to keep those rides easy, theres lots of technical climbing and the descents are essentially Vo2 repeats.
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Congrats in completing the plan and good luck in your race coming up! Sorry I don’t have any advice. I love the flexibility of Train Now but I have no real idea what I am doing. Lol. 
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Thank you so much for the thoughtful advice, it is giving me some great perspective and a rough blueprint for moving forward. I really appreciate it!
Easy one this morning. I have a big ride planned for monday as my last skills work before the first enduro, so for tomorrow I dropped my hour long threshold to a 30 min alternate. Already taking the advice!
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Sound advice from @kjdhawkhill, in my opinion.
My Low Volume week comprises of two VO2 workouts and one threshold. I drop on of the VO2 sessions. I opt for the session which I believe will be the most challenging and relevant to my goals.
The VO2 session that I drop gets replaced with an hours endurance. That hours endurance isn’t going to drastically improve my fitness but, it does help me to hit my ‘key’ sessions with full steam.
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Final ride of the week was planned for Saturday but had to push to this morning. Easy effort. Hardest part was trying stay comfortable on the saddle the last 2 hours. Little stand up breaks every few minutes were only temporary relief.
Shower, breakfast, then drive time to meet family. Happy Sunday!
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Recovery during Easter so only two short workouts airing the dog during warm up and four 60s hill repeats with short recovery by myself afterwards.
Final ramp test to conclude winter training.
Sept. 8:
215 ramp @ 89kg = 2.41 w/kg
267 ramp @ 80kg = 3.34 w/kg
Overall I should be satisfied with the improvement on ‘only’ 3.2h/week, but I did govern the ramp rate to not risk tearing up the injury and ruin a solid recovery.
Definitely learned some things by seeing what people in this thread and others have been doing, and also my own training block experiments.
The regular and irregular people posting their completed workouts have helped me over the winter to see their improvements and giving me a nudge to train consistently.
Also at times I’ve pushed past the discomfort zone on some workouts just to post them in here among you all. 
Will be transitioning to maintenance / creating local segments to compete against myself over summer as my spare time gets a lot less consistent and available at all.
Hopefully pick up soccer again as well if the injury is healed properly, but if not at least I got an exercise outlet in cycling which I’m very grateful for.
Thank you all for the added motivation over winter and see you in the ‘Outside’ thread over summer. 
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Last Thursday:
This AM:
I got real light headed during the last interval and had to stop. Most likely a fueling issue… but I still rode for over an hour.
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