Ouch! Yeah that’s cold enough. I’m sure there’s some heat coming off the trainer, but I guess if you put the ipad there you can’t see its screen. 
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Conness (Z2 L5.6) today, after swapping out the shorter, higher intensity Lachat (also Z2 L5.6).
I had the usual dripping sweat all over the screen, causing the phone to think I was touching it.
It looked easy enough to memorise targets & approx durations so I turned the screen off, went by my head unit, & listened for the tones to guide interval start/finish, just flicking it on once in a while to see how I was tracking. Couldn’t work out why I was over target on the third of the lower work periods, until most of the way through I saw it was 60%, not the 65% I presumed. 
Ah well, a bit extra work done.
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Garrard
Surprise was on my calendar for tomorrow but I can’t ride due to kiddo activities but I found two hours today to ride. Interestingly TR did not have an Alternate but Garrard looked really close.
I kept the gas on during the cool down to complete the Zwift climb portal climb. Other than the warmup, the whole ride was ‘high Z2.’
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I did some flow trails with my son, then TT’d back up to the car solo. @Jonathan this is the last climb on Peaks
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It turns out that going from 9x30/30s at 115% to 25x30/20s at 120% is quite the jump. Good to find the limit as I’d been pretty comfortable doing TR’s recommended VO2 workouts in the past. .
The workout was part of a marathon plan, and 2PL’s higher than my current level, but I didn’t have time to scrutinise beforehand. I’ll stick to <1 PL jumps in the future
Also attaching an image from the iPhone app below, where actuals is stretched, but target is not - a bug for the TR team
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@eddie, @SeanHurley… fyi: @adski found a display bug.
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Sunday was Yayamari for me.
Past few weeks I’ve been upping my VO2 as I come to the end of my base period, in preparation for build that will take me into March.
Last couple of jumps in PL have been fairly chunky and this one was also a pretty big increase (5.5 to 6.4).
9 x 2 minutes at 120% (370w) in ERG mode was a tough one. Pleased I managed to complete it and tagged on an extra 30mins at 50% FTP as I’m also slowly increasing my weekly Z2 volume. 
Might try a similar effort at a PL level somewhere around 7.2 to see if I can continue the progress.
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Are you talking about how the power graph doesn’t align with the thumbnail image in your calendar?
If so, that’s on our list to fix! 
Let me know if I’m missing something else…
Thanks for the heads-up!
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The first workout of the year in the ‘Hall of Pain’ in my house (my pevious w’outs were in my parent’s garage) and I don’t think I got it all out and as a result I got a struggle survey 
On reflection though for the 2min VO2 Max intervals I was ahead of where I was at this time last year and at the start of 23 it was only surpassed slightly by an outdoors power meter ride.
Also I stayed in the VO2max zone, not quite 125% and anaerobic but in the VO2max zone :-/
My pain hall FWIW
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I changed today’s Threshold workout to an an ‘Achievable’ one last week immediately after last weeks session but decided in the end to go back to a ‘Productive’ session, and that gave me:
I did the first two blocks in ERG and switched to Resistance mode in the last block when my cadence started to die.
PS. The name was apt 
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I usually need at least 10-15 minutes of gradual warm up before I’m ready to do any intervals. As needed, I’ll extend the warm up and manually adjust the erg intensity to get the warmup I want.
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I think I’d like more but a 45min workout suits better for squeezing into my wfh lunch. To be honest nobody would notice if I was offline from work for a hour but I feel more comfortable not being.
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I haven’t returned to my ordinary routine after breaking my leg three months ago. Moreover, I gained some extra weight during this time. I need to be causious, so I decided to start with a calisthenics workout, found one for beginners here https://betterme.world/articles/calisthenics-for-overweight-beginners/ So, today some squats, lunges, plunks and push-ups. I hope to be in shape till summer.
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I had a VO2max workout in my calendar for a lunchtime session. I initially wanted to shorten it to 45mins (from an hour). However, all the 45mins work outs had two minutes VO2max intervals, so I stuck with an hour. Although I did change it to Baird which only had 2 blocks anaerobic and 1 block VO2max (the original session had 3 anaerobic blocks). On reflection though apart from my warm up 30s intervals and the first Anaerobic interval all the intervals were too low cadence wise
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I had a threshold workout in my plan today and I shortened it with 'Alternates ’ so I could do it at lunchtime. The first 10 min block is not bad but I think I was lazy with my cadence in the second block only to have tons of energy at the end when I dropped to the TT position, particularly in the last minute 
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Two days in a row. Threshold is hard; threshold the day after anything is extra hard. And you smashed it! 
Mine’s a bit more sedate. Custom workout on the new Zone 1½ team I’m peddling. 
This one’s firmly Z2 though.
Intensity distribution wise, it’s not that different from Vogelsang.
Warmup & cooldown extended, & the only “coasting” I did in the whole work period was in the first five seconds whilst stationary. I was throwing some water over me & topping off a bottle in the warmup period, & the interval start beeps caught me off guard.
Clearly cadence suffered a bit in the middle.
Got to 2½h on one bottle when the sun was still low in the sky, then was chasing shade & ran out of water with 5 minutes left on the last interval. Not too bad.
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