I decided that I didn’t want to ride 105-120 minutes outside. Then I decided that 105 minute volume builder (3.9 endurance) wasn’t enough for this early in my base phase. I played around with the workout filter, found Mandum and plugged it in.
Obviously handled it. The sprint intervals exceeded the targets by about 100 watts +/-, and you can see I was pretty comfortable handling the endurance work. Routine Builder 75 penciled in for tomorrow before Tuesday’s Thunder (SS, 3.1, productive, 60 minutes).
Week was 8H58min saddle time, 502 total TSS according to TR, but there was something really goofy about the commute numbers for Wednesday when I hadn’t linked the new watch to the PM… It was a hard ride in (cold, cold headwinds), and what is normally 15-25 tss based on power jumped to 41 with only HR numbers. 35 I might have bought, but 41 seemed really high.
Whatever. 6000kJ +/- is good week. Glad to be back.
[edited kJ number, even though I liked the bigger number better]
(HR monitor doing the weird thing it did last winter where for the first 10 minutes of a workout it reads wicked high…didn’t happen during the summer or fall )
Been working nights since Thursday. This is all I had time (and energy) for today. Two days ago I ran for 13 minutes and lifted for an hour. Yesterday I ran for 16 minutes. I’m trying to veryyyyyy slooooooowly build back my running volume–these runs are more about accumulating ground strikes, not fitness.
My garmin HR monitors have been doing that over the years as they get erratic after a year or so of training. I’m thinking they’re disposable. Maybe i should look at other brands with ANT+.
My first 2h SS workout. This has 1h19 at 90%. It went ok until I needed to backpedal at the Happy Halfway mark of the 18min interval and again and again.
I wonder if there’s a SS workout where the longer interval is earlier?
Pre-night shift ride. Got about 6 hours of sleep during the day and it was the most restful I’ve had in this block…i guess being awake for 26 hours will do that!
Its a rest week for me. I adhered to it during my AM commute but in the PM I wanted to test my new Garmin front light. In addition to my 2x niterider swifts (a 450 &500) and my helmet mounted Cateye Volt 400 it was a massive improvement on the dark country lanes and I got a bit carried away. Part of my commute is also on the train and at the far end it was freezing so after the slow wind out of the station, it was a sprint to the flat! Not exactly a rest
Bald was in my calendar tonight. Bizarrely it feels like my legs have worked maybe because I did the single leg stuff but my lungs feel like they have done completely nothing and my HR says the same
Skipped structure on Monday and just did a townie commute to watch my favorite sport at an establishment which normally serves beer. I abstained, thinking I might ride when I got home. I didn’t. Just played fetch with the Labrador a little bit. (35 minutes, 34 TSS based on HR only).
Commuted Tuesday to and from (53 minutes total, 46TSS). Got on the trainer for Thunder and exceeded the power targets pretty much all around. These definitely felt like SS even though they were a near-dead-on match for my current FTP estimate. Recovery periods were pretty good as HR fell pretty quickly.
Wednesday commuted in and felt fine, once I got going but my legs did tell me that I was working pretty hard yesterday. Rode home and felt fine. Took it easy for the most part, but did take the opportunity on a little 3-4%, 20 second “hill” to crank it up. Set 2022 power records for 13seconds through 17 seconds. (34 total TSS, 56 minutes on the day).
AT adjusted my Thursday workout up to Steamboat +2 which they have as a 4.4… Its Turkey day so I’m probably going to look for a 90 minute SS 5point-low.
Friday’s weather should be really nice and I’m not terribly concerned with the AM world cup games, so I’ll probably go for an outdoor ride from whenever I get moving until just before USA-England kicks off.
One of my favourite TR sessions. I love these ‘throw it at the wall and see what sticks’ type of efforts. The time just flies and you’re engaged from start to finish.
today I was feeling so good, increased the intensity on a 2 x 16 min @ FTP session and marked it as “moderate” hell yeah! and there is only 2 mins between main sets
Is it scoring you low across all types of workout or just VO2 Max?
Unless you’re really committed to an experiment of not changing anything, I’d pick a stretch or breakthrough workout. Easy VO2 intervals are a wasted hour, and I fear AT won’t ramp you up fast enough even if you’re rating them as Easy.
Seems mostly VO2max. Thresholds, like Cartwright, are challenging. In Cartwright-1, a stretch for me, the last one or two steps in the interval are about right, and have me hit 94-95% HRmax with controlled but heavy breathing.
Wish there were a way to adjust VO2max interval duration during the session.
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