Finally getting serious about training.
That’s me this week. Back at it in the morning.
Carpathian Peak -2 last night. I was a bit worried about this one because after doing some solid base and lacking any work on my muscular endurance, I’ve been finding some of the threshold stuff quite tough. I’m on week 3 of sustained build. So it’s a vo2 and a threshold session on Monday and Wednesday respectively. Probably at the start I was carrying some slight fatigue from the vo2 session and I’d go for an easy run on the Tuesday. Genuinely thought it was a possibility if have to quit. But no, got it done and fairly well for that matter. Three weeks in now and I’m almost back to fully fit after a big lay off after Ironman Wales.
Embrace the Power Hour!
Trying to figure some of my actual thresholds with some testing, which I really haven’t done much of. Generally have ridden prescribed TR workouts in erg mode.
Started with a TTE workout - 1 Hour @ 95% FTP. Next time need to bump it up to 285’ish (98% according to TR), finished with gas in the tank and bumping up the power and a quick 900w sprint where I forgot to turn off erg mode (Doh!)
First time I’ve done an hour threshold effort like that, happy with how it went
(Edit - in about a week I’m going to do 5 minute, 1 minute, 20 minute, and sprint testing. So, have a couple easy spin days coming up, a couple days off traveling for work, and then time to party again!)
“Whaleback” Threshold 4.0
First time dipping into this thread, this one had me shaking my head a little.
First workout in specialty block, came off a polarized build block which had about 3 weeks total time off/recovery during the 8 week block due to holidays and travel. FTP dropped a few watts according to AI but wasn’t enough to make me worry one way or the other. This felt like VO2 (@105% I guess it is on the low edge). bailed toward the end of the 2nd interval … 2 mins of recovery wasn’t feeling like enough to get me thru 3 & 4. Maybe mental, maybe not.
Monitor +1 Sweetspot 4.9
Got carried away at end on downhill sectio onTitans Grove (Zwift) Really enjoy that part especially with the steering… Think I over did workout as it questioned me why I marked it very hard! and truth be told as I type this, I do feel like I did a little too much.
@BCM Very nice effort, kudos to you for that sustained effort
What % FTP are your recovery valleys set at? That looks like approximately 70%. I used to try to do that but, in the end, it usually cost me an interval or two of “real” work. Once I embraced “make the hard days (intervals) hard and the easy days (intervals) easy” I was mentally ok with recovery intervals in the 40-50% range.
