First set, I don’t know if I can do this. Second set, positive motivational self-talk. Third set, feeling fantastic, this is a breeze!
Morning workout, surprised glucose remained nearly flat for the duration. Went just below 70mg/dL. Evening workouts, glucose is less stable.
Anticipation for this was dread, but once in found it remarkably easy. Last interval up’d intensity to 115%. I think I could have completed at that intensity if not for cramp sensation forming in hamstring. Decided to back off at that point.
Only six months in with TR and feel I’ve a lot of upside.
Merry Christmas.
A couple days ago, I had a kind of underwhelming workout (elevated HR, etc). I thought maybe I’ve just been pushing too hard and should do a bit of R&R. I spent the first part of yesterday reading some articles/threads on “recovery/rest week,” and was totally going to just do an hour of easy noodling and call it a day. But I had a mid-day nap and when I woke up, I felt great. I decided, eff it, I just want to do another long ride to close out the year. So I was going to do Robinson +2 for the third week in a row, but then I discovered there’s actually a Robinson +3. The only difference, AFAICT, is that +2 has 4x30min at 75% FTP, whereas +3 has those same intervals at 80%.
TR had never reco’d Robinson +3 to me because it’s categorized as Tempo, not Endurance. In fact TR said Robinson +3 was NOT RECOMMENDED, given that my Tempo PL was just 2.3 and this workout is Tempo 10.1. Oh well, what could possibly go wrong lol.
I definitely felt the step up in intensity, but in a good way. My average heart rates on the four intervals were 133 >> 141 >> 152 >> 153 (HRmax is 183). It’s really the last two that your start to feel it, with all the accumulated fatigue. This felt like just amount of pushing it. If I do this again in a week, I will probably just repeat it and see if I can get a lower RPE.
Today will be easy 1hr or just rest.
I did the full Disaster workout today. It was my Christmas gift to myself 
What does stultifying mean? Actually, this was not as bad as I thought it would be. Put the media player onto shuffle and started cranking this one out. Did with 70 grams of carbohydrates, a Nuum tab, and water for about 20 ounces total. I broke it up by sipping my bottle every five minutes and every 30 minutes (or so) an out of the saddle low cadence period. First was 1 minute, the second was 2 minutes, and yes the third instance was 3 minutes. The workout ended with a rocking “Hard to Handle” belted out by Pigpen and then I capped it off with the heroic 1941 March. Went upstairs mixed up some whey, collagen peptides, dark chocolate, water, banana, and a tangerine and drank that down.
Merry Christmas to you all!
Here is Low Saddle!
Lazy mountain -2. Then I proceeded to eat and drink my way through the day. Oooof!
Merry Christmas!
Ochoco
Had to hop off the bike at around the 47-minute mark to get the wife (sick) some breakfast. Meant to bump up only the last 65% trough, then subsequently forgot I had changed the intensity until part way through the next section. My OCD wouldn’t let me change it mid-section.
This was the last workout of the FasCat 10-Week Weight Training plan. I built the the FasCat-specific workouts (eg Standing Starts, Sprintervals) in Workout Builder and found comparable TR workouts for all others (eg Ochoco for a 2 1/2 hour endurance ride).
Between work travel and sickness I wasn’t able to complete the last two weeks of the lifting workouts. I prioritized the cycling workouts but still missed more than I would have liked.
I’m going to do one last week of endurance to hopefully complete the Festive 500, then start Polarized Based on 3 Jan.
Wtf is “full Disaster”? Seem like the sort I’d be interested in.
Oh I see. That looks like programmer art.
there’s some shorter versions. a couple of TR users dreamed it up. people on the forum said “that looks horrible. I’m gonna do it too”. and thus, World Wide Disaster Day (WWDD) was born.
I was crusing along making great progress then got hit by Covid last Monday!! That made for a shitty Christmas but what can you do. I still tested positive yesterday
I woke up full of energy and almost feeling normal today, so I wanted to try an easy workout (IF = 0.6).
It was easy and HR actually stayed in Z2. I’m so excited I could burst.
I don’t have access to my TT bike for a few days so I did Agassiz -1 on the road bike. I think I am too eager to spring out of the saddle on it. The result being it tends to move forwards more. So what started in an ideal distance back from the table that still allowed me to press the laptop’s keyboard, became my bars a cm or two above the table when I wanted to be in the drops. Although it was inconvenient, I think it was a bit inconsequential, as I had done a custom workout last week which just bumped up the VO2 max PL a little much. On hindsight I should have did the workout in resistance mode allowing me to recover my cadence better. It (my cadence) got a bit low at times. I was quite pleased with the last interval though which was probably my most compliant and saw me focusing on my breathing in and out hard.
Maybe last VO2Max alt max stretch I’ll do for awhile.
First set always the hardest. Second set gradually gets easier. Last set starts off easy, but last 2 to 3 intervals body and mind had words. I think I could have done, maybe, another set.
Didn’t feel lactate burn this session. Could that be due to high cadence?
Imagine how good your top end is gonna be when you build it on that solid base 
That, or your body is just getting even more used to the demands of on/offs, or both. 
