Fits and starts. Good weather had me commuting, coaching had me not training as much as I’d want in December… A holiday or two…excuses into New Years.
2024 - 3 trips to the office this year, and I haven’t driven yet. (+/-55 minutes and +/-40TSS per commute day). Best Garmin performance condition I saw in those 6 rides was -4, Fair.
Back to Fox to start this week (but I watched football all day instead)…
Pulled Fox to yesterday. Sweet Spot 1.4, “productive.” I’m stupid. I should have looked for a stretch yesterday, but knowing I was going to train again today I stuck with “productive”… Discretion might be be the better part of valor, but I know I could have done more.
The intervals were short and light enough that I decided to really cook off at the beginning of some of them, and the end of the last one. +5 button pressed, 2 minutes in at 107% of “FTP”… then a full 5 minute cool down. Marked easy.
Passed on the AIFTP update because it probably would have lowered my FTP even further and made the “catching up” OF my workouts TO my current fitness even slower. Interestingly, Intervals ALSO offered to update my FTP based on the 6 minutes on the final interval/add-on time, as if that were a max effort 6 minute interval rather than just a boredom killing effort. Wanted to drop almost 20 watts from the number I have it set at in TR… Pass on that, too.
Calendar adaptations accepted. Calls for Mono 2.4 Threshold “stretch” today. Discretion means I’m only moving up the “stretch” scale and I alternated in Owsley a 2.8 with basically the same profile and only three more TSS… Its calls for only 6 more TSS than the version of Fox I completed yesterday.
Edited, calling this a success:
Passed. Exceeded targets by a half zone or better in the “over” intervals. Self-added 1/2 of an interval. Would have added a whole, except I needed the cool down and to get back to parenting. 113 TSS where scheduled was 93.
Decent week. 5H 25M, 325 TSS. Stacked workouts back to back, killed them both. Wish I’d have gotten another ride in, but whatever, start the year crushing “stretches” and fall into “productives” in how many weeks? I’m guessing at least 2-3 training weeks unless I crack out a “breakthrough” or two in a couple of different zones/focuses.
Just changed my next two SS workouts to “stretches” (3.6 and 4.3 from current 2.5)… We’ll see how that works out.