Had a week off structure to go and ride my bike around Mallorca. I know, it’s tough but, someone has to do it 
Then a recovery week and now we’re back at it. Diamond Valley Road Race this morning. This felt good and I love this kind of work.
Trying to do more of my workouts outside now that we’re getting enough sunlight in the morning before work.
This is 8x4’ vo2max intervals with 4’ rbi. I have a section of trail near my house that’s perfect for anything under 5’ and it’s more or less on the way to work. So I did these with a backpack, continued on to the office, showered and then to my desk, just like old times.
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Hooboy. How do you get through that? Watch a long movie?
Train now
With holidays and life’s unexpected turns I haven’t been home a lot and thus the pain cave has been neglected. have managed to get some running in, 200km in last 30 days, something to keep the blood pumping.
Back on the bike last night, managed 45 minutes of train now, all PLs looking sad!
There’s no way I’d manage an hour at sweetspot, basically where I left myself before all these travels. Hopefully if I manage a few sessions a week I’ll quickly get back to where I was…
Nice IF, especially for an hour and a half 
It still amazes me that even on a hard ride like that you don’t take the full rest drop.
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There is the option to use the AI FTP Detection, but it’s not “automatic” in a way you may be thinking. See below for full details and how to employ the tool.
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There needs to be a Ramp Test on your calendar right now. This is because it is still in testing and not “officially release” at this time.
Thank you, @mcneese.chad!!!
Tested Positive for Covid immediately after 
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Hopefully it’s not long. Really struggling with how many workouts I’ve missed since Easter.
I’ve redone my Training Plan this morning (using a starting date two weeks later than original) which pushes out “Build” until mid June. Hopefully I can get in a week or two more of base riding again before then.
From Thursday. Missed some rides and AT actually recommended a Ramp Test! Instead I did the original workout.
Strength warmup. These actually felt good until the ramp down from the 3rd peak starting interval 2, that’s when the burn hit like a tidal wave. Held it together and finished, yay!
Easyish run tonight in our early May heat wave. Bleh. Bright side is we can call it Heat Adaptation Training.
I hope your symptoms are mild and that you recover quickly.
My training also seems to have also fallen off of a cliff since Easter - vacation then back-to-back weeks with business trips, a bunch of bike fit adjustments, and trainer power mysteriously lower than power meter (and the PM is right). I feel like I’ve been kicked all the way back to Base even though AI FTP Detection thinks my FTP is only down 2w. I feel like it’s down 15w. 
Anyway, I commiserate but hope you get better soon.
I’ve don’t a dozen tests over the past three weeks. This is the first positive.
I guess I’ve just been battling something else.
I was starting to think I had it but wasn’t going to +ve given how long I was struggling.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
With a .92IF over 3.5 hours I would want to quit too!
Stromlo +2 for me today - swapped it into my plan as I wanted a slightly higher TIZ at a slightly lower intensity.
Really hard day after TR AI increased my FTP again last week. I suspect its slightly over estimating and I was forced to dial it down a few % on the last rep and even take a quick pause. 5x8m @102% is a tough one anyway but with an FTP even a few watts too high I think its right on the border of doable. Still very pleased with 40 mins of hard threshold work and lots of time >90% vo2.
I would have dialled back my FTP slightly after today except AT has adapted the next session down, so I’ll go with that and see how AT responds to the issue. I had a really hard 80 mile ride on Saturday and could also have just been slightly fatigued as well, so lets see what happens.
Outside 3hr endurance with 3x20m tempo tomorrow and the weather looks good again 
