I’ve not been in that part of Maine but no doubt you’ll be fine on your road bike & different wheels on the gravel up there. I’d wager they’re logging roads & will be a blast!
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Round Bald, well 66% of Round Bald because it was freaking HOT.
And that was with two fans blowing on me too. I use my Garmin 1030 on the side to provide smart drink/eat during workouts and got TEN 100ml drink prompts during the hour. Yeah it was hot.
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Hopefully the Garmin gave you heat acclimatization credit!
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Tough one. Combination of the set up at work is a bit harder, fatigue from Monday, possibly dialled up too high in PL relative the normal amount of progression and fatigue management, and worst of all I am feeling scratchy again and the wife has picked up the hideous cough virus that’s doing the rounds 
. Flipping hard avoiding things this year.
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After a new FTP estimation of yesterday Sugarloaf +3 was on the menu. I bonked during the third interval but was already falling apart during the second one. This must be one of the earliest failures during my Trainerroad career. Let’s see how tomorrow’s workout is going to be
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Those >100% Threshold workouts are absolutely brutal. I find the fatigue from them is so much worse than long intervals at or just under.
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Inchwormed 3x up my local hill today, with 30s hard starts @ 150%
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This one was really interesting. 2x23 mins, with the goal of keeping cadence around 75 to simulate climbing. I have a tricky knee, so appreciated the lower %FTP target while grinding it out. For the second time this week, I declined several adaptations trying to push my SS PL up. I feel guilty doing it, but my knee is feeling iffy and I have a cycling/hiking vacation with the wife coming up soon.
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SS 7.5 on Tuesday nearly killed me. I rated it very hard, and then AI proceeds to think SS 8.8 today would be a good idea. This was the first time since getting back on the bike in March that I was dreading a workout. I hopped on fully expecting to fail. The warm-up was hard, that 1min hard start was so so so hard. And then, it got easier. I think I probably should have failed because of how hard this was but I’m stubborn.
I was worried it would make next week harder, but next week is SS 8.3. WHAAAAAT? I’m so confused.
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did some standing climbing drills during intervals 2-3-4-5.
Even though this workout had no instructions, I’m now programed to take advantage of longer intervals to do things like standing, cadence, and quadrant drills. It’s this on the trainer coaching that to me sets TrainerRoad apart from the rest. “Do this other thing while you’re in the interval and here’s why and how it can help you.” That’s worth the subscription by itself.
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Solid workout. Marked “Hard” as it definitely took a decent amount of focus. It was an Alternate from the original adaptation “Keith” which didn’t look like one I’d get through with end of week fatigue in the legs.
Definitely started wondering if I’d bitten off more than I should have at the end of the second interval.
Week One of Build complete. Should be ~12hrs and ~700TSS after a short recovery ride for my Saturday tomorrow. I’ll have to manage the workout choices over the next two weeks to the rest, excited if I can maintain the work rate.
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Leconte
Good ole Leconte. The 30-second “overs” every 2 minutes made the intervals fly by. Early start (for a weekend) to make it to a kiddo swim meet.
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Summer heat is in full force in Houston and that means early early rides outside for me. Really hard to do long intervals like this outside in the city with some very long stoplights, but I do my best.
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I have Keith next week. I would much rather do this workout!
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I thought this would be harder, but wasn’t too bad at all! I shortened the rest intervals, so I could get off a few minutes early and get to work by 645a instead of 7.
I’m looking forward to seeing a new increased FTP in another week or so 
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@runriderandi to shorten the rests, do you still have to pause/drag/resume or is there a shorter way to skip ahead?
I set the cursor where I want to resume, then I pause and double click the start of the next interval. It’s faster than having to drag, but I’m on computer. I don’t know about mobike…
Takes less than 3 seconds for me. Space bar, double click, space bar, suffer 
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