What workout did you do today? (2022)

Easy Sweet Spot day to close out the week on the trainer. Outdoor stuff this weekend to get some extra TSS.

Decided to start a DIY sweetspot block and AI FTP detection just gave me my highest one yet @ 312W :face_with_monocle:

Opted to start relativly easy in case that value was too high. I wrapped up 4x10 @ 90% and marked it easy!! :star_struck::star_struck::star_struck: I’m planning a few outdoor rides this weekend than probably back for 3x15 and 3x18 (3x20?) Sweetspot next week.

Awesome!

Caltech -1

This message comes to you from the floor of the pain cave:

GO HARD OR GO HOME!

:joy::joy::joy:

whimpers

Emerson +2

You know it’s hard when your VO2 PL increases 1.4 on an over/under workout. Even Garmin detected a new VO2 - hadn’t seen that in forever. :hot_face: Marked it as Very Hard. Good thing I only have Sweet Spot tomorrow before a rest week!

Are those 110/95s? Spicy!

These were 98 / 108!

Eeek. No thanks. Do not want.

Could you be having a wattage floor issue? I have them and just cannot get the lower power for the recovery intervals in a lot of my workouts. It has to do with the parameters of your trainer.

Hi @JMT,
Thanks for the suggestion. It’s definitely a “Zwift taking control even when deselecting” issue as I did my workout today without Zwift (watched red bull tv on ATV instead) and had no Erg/control issues.

So I need to keep fiddling with a sequence that allows the two apps. Or, I might give up Zwift because it’s just to be a distraction and red bull tv or some other sport film also works well. shrug

Golgotha

Last workout before rest week. Fatigue has definitely set in. 3 x 30 @ tempo should have been easy but I marked this as Hard. I may have to rethink how far I’m going to ride tomorrow …

Strong effort :ok_hand:t2::clap:t2:

Ooosh :muscle:t2:

Glassy-1

Marked as ‘Hard’ afterwards as it was somewhere between moderate and hard but I opted to take the cautious approach :smiley:

Saturday: 30km Easy Trail run. GPS issues with watch but managed to record everything except HR data with Stryd pod. Pace averaged 7:05mikm and power averaged 237w

Sunday: DIY day, but took extra rest day as calves feeling “used”, so listened to body and binned Sunday ride and moved it to Monday. This old body needs more recovery than it did!

Monday: As I’ve found previous Threshold and Sweetspot workouts ‘moderate’ I found a breakthrough workout I thought I had a chance of completing: Marion Threshold 4.2
Hard to very hard, marked as latter as cadence was dropping towards end, wasn’t far away from spiral of death, but it was a good mental battle, especially as last 6 minutes I was on Zwift with a virtual down hill epic KOM descent.


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Actually feel now that leg endurance is coming back, looking at PLs VO2 max needs some work on it as it’s currently at 1.0, so plan will be to attack that next.

Thread turning into my own persona; blog :rofl:, where has everyone gone!
Tuesday: 18km/2hr Trail run 6:30/km pace avg 274w with 420m Elevation gain, slightly faster than Saturdays.
Wednesday: Baird -1 Sweetspot - Stretch workout


Know I was on my last legs but with some mental counting and Zwift Volcano climb with Rabbits I made it through to the end, Thus marked it as ‘All out’ and ‘Too intense’.

Still Ramped me up from 1.0 to 3.0. Think all is where it should be now, but I’ve a week away coming up, some Hiking in the Cairngorms, little event up there, 75km over four days with all camping kit, looking forward to it, rest week from Trail running and TrainRoad Workouts, fresh air and hopefully no midges!

Rest day today, tomorrow I’ll squeeze in a sweetspot workout and weekend, probably do a very easy recovery run.

Just started a new plan to keep myself consistently training since I would just bail now and then when I was going with train now each time.

I have a sprint triathlon and the Zwift Racing League season coming up and actually put it all in the plan for once (instead of doing this all on top). Surprisingly enough, the plan have me my first ever anaerobic workout to I guess get a quick boost to my fitness right before the events.

Black Giant -5. I did this whole having Zwift control my Tacx, and used my Assiomas for TR. For anaerobic workouts, should I be aiming to be near the suggested watts? I went hardest in the last set since this was just a 1.0 and was very easy.

The Owl last night.
Strangely it felt harder than perhaps it ought to have.
Showed as a 0.2 progress on PL.
I rated it as ‘Hard’.
This prompted the App to tell me well done for ‘pushing through’ and asked me what the problem was which I selected as ‘sleep’ because I’d had Monday off the bike and Tuesday was an L1/L2 one hour indoor easy session so I ought to have been good to go but had some poor sleep for two nights in a row; which I think can’t have been a coincidence.

Recovery week. No one needs to hear about my experiences with Pettit and friends. :grin:

It’s given you a 1.0 because it has no history for you. When I was in this position, I took a look through the library and eyeballed one that I thought would stretch me but still be doable. Ended up choosing Propsting (5.0) and it was absolutely fine. I’m guessing anything between 4 and 6, depending on your power curve, should be good. :+1: