Eclipse
I did a long outside ride on Monday so decided to stay inside today for one last high quality workout before recovery week. I used @Nope0337’s tip to shorten the recovery intervals and get enough time back to add one more at the end. Still feeling great but will take the advice for a more ‘traditional’ recovery week of (mostly) Z2.
Got 15 minutes into the ride when I took my first sip and realized I forgot to put the sugar water in my bottles! Luckily there was a shortcut back to the house. Thankful to my wife for being at the back door with sugar water in hand as I rolled up!
I’ve got a cycling/hiking vacation starting late next week, so I’ve been rejecting adaptations after every workout in order to keep effort lower. This one felt pretty easy, so I threw in a short push at the beginning of each interval in the first 2 sets.
Thank goodness you checked then! I’ll often not take the first sip for an hour or so if I am only carrying a bottle or two (admittedly not if going hard). Would have been a bummer.
Three cheers for supportive spouses!
Nice! I love me some short rest intervals 
I adjusted my schedule to my LV scheduled rides to be on MWF based on me returning to work. When I did that, my training plan for this week changed. It suggested I do a SS 5.5 workout. Weird. I had an 8.3 previously scheduled. But I did 8.8 last week, so figured why not go higher before my rest week next week!
I liked this workout. Seems pertinent for when I do return to racing.
Race day yesterday.
First time doing a (modified) taper with AT. Felt like the fitness was right where I wanted it, but interestingly don’t feel the burnout I typically have at a peak. Planning to take some time off the bike towards the end of this week (as I usually respond well to a mid-season break) but don’t feel the need like I normally do. Will take the rest anyway, but a noticeable change for this season
Race day on this past Sunday. Felt pretty good after a choppy swim in Lake Michigan. Coolish weather for the bike and run compared with previous years. Went totally by feel but had the Garmin up to glance at from time to time. Left myself in decent condition to pull out a decent run! Still not sure why my old 520 still reads power and cadence but my replacement 945 watch doesn’t. A mystery for another day, probably a firmware update I’m missing or something. Going to clear all the sensors and pair everything again too.
Later today is Berryessa then a sprint race Wednesday before back to the training grind in my first ever Specialty Phase after all these years of using TrainerRoad. 
Thank you AT!!
Still on a LV base plan and waiting for new bike day so I can get out on my long weekend rides again, and trying to get a tweaked shoulder better so I can get back to lifting.
Workouts for the most part have gotten to the “hard” level with a 6.4 VO2 coming up next week, a sweet spot 7.5 and an 8.3, plus a threshold 4.7 and 5.1 before an easy week and then AI FTP re-eval…
After my major fail of last week’s VO2 max interval Sugarloaf +3 AI gave me a more realistic workout this week: Inspiration. After the first interval I was really doubting myself to complete the full workout but it worked out quite ok
Question to all: how should I fill these workouts in the survey? VO2 max will always be hard I guess, but overall I managed ok, so I would assume this is moderate intensity due to the long recovery intervals.
I use this form, created by @mcneese.chad
He has a newer version, but I use this one because I just look at the parts that are underlined to make it a simple decision.
Thanks! this is exactly what i was looking for
Here is a later version, and link to the fife that has the latest all the time.
Race day with 2 days rest. Didn’t do yesterday’s workout and just fell asleep early after work.
Again did the race by feel. Glanced at the power meter a few times but didn’t really process the info to change anything. Looks like I rode the 12 miles about -5w compared with the 24 miles almost a month ago. Guess I’m still feeling the aftermath of a 70.3, lol. Swim went okay, 15 sec faster than my self seed pace. Run also went okay with no cramping or issues, probably could have pushed harder but the legs weren’t obliged to help anymore.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a productive Sweet Spot ride but I might push that to Friday and just do easyish Endurance spin for an hour instead.
Home, showered. Now need food!
PS. Oh! I did get my 945 to capture the Power/Cadence data! But then forgot to hit LAP to end T-1 until I was over 2 miles down the road. Hahahahaha.
