Did Monitor today in small chainring 34/21 and it went well.
Last Saturday went to a local State Park where I wanted to try hill climbing. There is an approx 15% (280/1700) grade that I eventually made it up after stopping 5-6 times to let my HR drop from 160s to 140 and try a few more feet, rinse and repeat. Did a recovery ride afterwards keeping in the 120-130 bpm range. I totally was too high in cadence so next time will do better (thanks @WindWarrior for suggestions made in other threads).
My Aluminum Domane is 22 lbs so could still be a bit heavy for climbing even with Hunts and tubeless tires. I think Iāve lost about as much weight as I can down to 66kg (145lbs) and my VO2Max per Garmin leveled off at 43 so need to work on that.
Sort of embarrassing. But I guess for me it is true that the ceiling is gone if I donāt train. I was never good at sprint efforts, but I donāt remember being this bad at them. I just could not make enough power.
The best part of this is that AI knew I struggled and didnāt even ask my how it went. It just skipped to asking why I was so weak. I plan to revisit this workout in a couple weeks.
a pretty tough workout for me, but that 4th burst in each interval was really hard. Iām wondering if I should be doing these types of v02 max workouts though. Iām on low volume climbing road race but Iām not racing (I just ride hilly routes), so is there any point in doing these v02 max workouts with the sprint bursts?
Had a date with Mary last night. First time Iāve made it all the way, full pull with no bailouts. Due in no small part to the best FTP estimates Iāve had in my TR career, via AIFTPD.
The ease of use and results Iām getting from AIFTPD are great. I wish I had it when I started TR in 2015. Would have prevented a LOT of bailouts and overly difficult workouts over the years.
I can relate to that. Completed Pizzone yesterday. Not only nailed it, but nailed it comfortably. I felt like I could go on and on. I was almost sorry that it ended. Gave it a āhardā rating, because āmoderateā would be over the top
It was the first time that I felt that my estimated FTP and my ārealā FTP (what I could really maintain during an hour) perhaps arenāt that far apart.
figured this would be hard and it was. At what point do you guys rate rides āvery hardā? This felt āvery hardā but Iāve been reserving that rating for a workout where I fail or come close to failing at some point. I wasnāt in danger of stopping here and my cadence never dropped but it was very tough, where a slight headache was coming on towards the end, and Iām just looking down (maybe even closing my eyes a bit) as I hold on to finish each interval.
In my experience, when I legit fail (cannot meet the power targets or cannot complete the session), AI doesnāt ask how the workout felt. So I wouldnāt save āvery hardā for the ones I fail.
Couldnāt get outside today due to family obligations even though the weather is awesome (and itās going to rain Sunday and Monday). Felt great so no complaints, though. Have a great day and long weekend in the US!!
I do plenty of the long Endurance rides inside and end up with just the simple naming being good for my needs. Easy & Moderate are most common and I just pick on feel. Easy only really happen for me on sub 1.5 hour and most others Moderate (2-4 hrs). I have likely done a few Hard, but only if I messed up fuel & water or made a large jump in duration (over 30 mins step).
@JoeX nothing - for some reason that data field always takes forever to load and I screen capture as soon as the image first loads. I marked Mount Hayes -3 as Moderate.
Took less than five seconds for the image and all of the other data to load, but nearly 30 seconds for the feedback field.
I plan to revisit this workout in a couple weeks.
