Yeah when Nate said this almost verbatim on the podcast a while back I was like “Yep, that’s me…”
Bit fatigued after a monster weekend on the bike. Managed to blast through the power targets, but HR not really getting up to where it should. There’s a longer rest before the last interval, I was heading home not realising I’d one left🤦♂️. I’ve another monster day on Saturday. So all easy between now and then.
My weight is dropping rapidly with the long days at the weekend. I’ve been doing short 30 mins easy runs in the morning, aiming for the 5 work days. I’ve only managed to get 3 in the last few weeks because of the need to recover. Pace is coming down rapidly though. 
weight = free speed 
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I’ve been doing my workouts exclusively outside for the past month or so. I a little harder to consistently hit a target, but far more engaging. It also doubles as nice break from the screen/work during the week.
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Interval #1 “uh oh, this is very very hard”. Interval #2 “oh man, I’ll finish but it’s going to take a lot to get there”. Interval #3 coach Chad recommended getting aero in the overs. I usually don’t listen to coach Chad, but figured whatever let’s make this even harder. Somehow, making the overs a bit harder made the unders easier, and by the third over I decided the workout now wasn’t hard enough 
so I skipped the rest interval to truly discover what hard felt like. Type 2 fun achieved.
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McAdie +1
Back to back threshold days made this harder than it needed to be, not that McAdie is ever “easy.” Similar to @runriderandi, I felt better toward the second and third sets, but was definitely ready to be done by the end of the fourth. Not sure if I could have done a full fifth set but still rated it as Hard (vice Very Hard).
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If the Garmin is still reading the HRM fine and TR isn’t it suggests that something is blocking the signal. With my ant+ power meter sometimes I have to turn off the garmin and let TR pick it up before using the Garmin again.
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My TickR is like that. It usually connects fastest on Ant+ rather than BT. I think when I have the Ant+ PM and the garmin and wifi it can just be ant+ overload for TR. I am not sure how TR works but I’ve found myself in the past having to turn off the garmin until TR has found everthing, most times its not a problem though.
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I recently had to switch to PowerMatch using Bluetooth and have noticed many more dropouts than over Ant+ to Zwift and my Garmin head unit. The head unit is obviously closest to the HRM and power meter, but I also have an Ant+ dongle for the computer connected via a shielded USB cable, whereas the computer is using its built-in Bluetooth, so furthest away. 
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Fridays are generally bad day for workouts for me, so instead of looking for an easier alternative on Friday, I looked for one on Thursday. 90/60s seemed like it was going to be a bridge too far for me, so I settled down to Acrodectes -1, (VO2, 5.8, productive, 60/60s). And I pretty much knocked it out of the park. I added 3:30 of Z2/low3 and then did a full 5 minute cooldown. TSS was higher than Baird +4 target would have been and I exceeded the targets on most reps, usually by a not small margin.
I marked it hard because it was. Only in the last set when I was trying to maintain a vanity power number above the workout target’s, did I actually think I might have to mark it all out.
I’m glad I alternated down, though, as 90/60s would have been a real stretch. I think with my smaller increase in FTP, AT made an aggressive call for the workout to be a whole 2 PL higher, but it wasn’t long ago I was pretty doubtful that it was making too conservative adjustments after large FTP increases.
Coached a soccer game, got home after 9 and managed to get four sets of squats, kept it light, but I haven’t been lifting well, so, yea…. DOMS expected.
Friday just a commute to and fro, and an early start. Actually had a less range of motion and lifting DOMS than expected, but maybe that’s because I wasn’t quite as focused on range of motion during Thursday’s squats.
Saturday - woke up with the DOMS I was expecting, coached a 9 am soccer game, chauffeured a bunch more. Got home after 5pm and totally flaked on a workout. 0 saddle time/0 Training Stress
Sunday - brewpub ride with friends. 23 miles, 4 beers, some cheese curds. Speed limit sign sprints (2). No other efforts. Good company. Tinge of regret when one of the friends admitted that he got his workout in during the morning…. Oh well, sh/t happens. 100 minutes. 48TSS.
In-office week:
Monday commute to and fro, and wife’s birthday, so the weekend’s threshold workout (St. Elias, 4.1, 90 minute, Productive) got canceled after being pushed from the weekend (tinge of regret). 49.5 minutes, 36 TSS.
Tuesday commute to and fro, but really early on the return, since we had internet, power and sprinkler issues at the office. Rode home and jumped into Wolfjaw +1, (vo2 6.8, stretch, 75 minutes) 132 minutes total, 124 TSS.
Wednesday office is still closed so I considered trying to pack a threshold day in to make up for St. Elias, or an endurance 90-120 minutes, but work (even telework) didn’t allow it.
Thursday - late AM commute. Like 10am rather than 6am. About halfway there I picked up a tail. Total cat6 dingle-berry. He was impressed with my acceleration out of lights; when he managed to catch up he wanted to chat, but I did need to get to work. He followed me on city streets for about three miles, usually only catching me at longer lights. Funny part was during one of these awkward conversations, I realized he was on a home-job e-moped bike-shaped object. I’ve never been a carrot for a moped before, but it was mildly amusing.
Commuted home late, too busy to eat lunch, but took advantage of a tailwind and took a crack at a strava segment (flat, only one light in about 1.25 miles) and thought I’d have parenting to do so was ready to bail on the VO2 workout, but my kids were around the corner at the park. I took the scheduled 6.8, 75 minute, productive (title forgotten once I hit “replace”) and found a 45 minute achievable 5.8 in Bird -2. Glad I reduced time and level, but I still feel like I accomplished something. Marked it Very hard, because for once I wasn’t exceeding the target avg power as displayed on the screen, but upon review, I was pretty close for most of them. Still felt very hard. No lunch might have something to do with that, right? 84 total minutes, 112 TSS.
Friday 0420 start leads to fastest commute ever, but that’s from being confident about traffic conditions in my major metro area. Commute home was long-way. 72 total minutes, 48TSS.
Tomorrow I have Remmel (thresh 4.2, 90 minutes, productive) but the wife has plans for a family ride on a creekside path, for Father’s Day. I might get it in, might not.
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You didn’t want to skip a rest interval 
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Hahahah … NO! But I did most at 50% instead of 40%. Does that count? 
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Two straight hours of SS? how about a recovery interval at least once in there!
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Did some extended solo endurance outside today
Power didn’t really start to drop until the last 90 minutes or so - pretty happy with the VI and zone adherence considering how hilly the loop was
Only real question is which endurance TR ride to associate it with
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Damn! Well done!!!
This is solid!! Maybe time for an FTP increase?
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First-hour fasted outside on my single speed…
Then straight into Baxter+2 fuelled with ~ 120g CHO
I had four hours of endurance scheduled but with not quite enough time for that I decided to opt for something a little shorter but more intense… around equivalent?
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Day One of Build. First Threshold workout for the season. First attempt at going hard since Covid.
It was a good workout. I have manually swapped the VO2 workout to the second half of build and chose this as the first workout as it was all just under FTP.
I marked it as “Hard”, because it was getting really a bit hard towards the end of the final block. I would have called it “moderate” otherwise, which is a bit weird because I was working pretty hard at ~320W and would say that was over MLSS. 12min intervals didn’t push me to the limit though. I pushed on for the last one to try and dial in my FTP since AI-FTPD hadn’t worked this morning unfortunately.
Weird HR response still. Spent a lot of time at what pre-Covid was my VO2 HR marker.
Good to have got through it.
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