Small group ride last night where myself and another guy were doing the majority of the pulls and pulling back any of the attackers. This was a huge ego boost for me after a couple weeks of failed workouts. Average power was solid, and the normalized really highlights how hard the pulls were when I was at the front bringing guys back. Felt so fun and good to ride in a paceline again, even if it were smaller (six of us).
I never felt out of my element and everything felt like it was within the realm of possibility to manage with my fitness, and that’s such a wonderful feeling.
Planned for a century today but my rear spoke took half the day off so cut it short. Shore towns are empty in the off season and makes holding speed much easier. Held it in Z2 and fueled light, really light: 3 bottles, 2 SiS Bars, 2 SiS gels, and a jalapeño pretzel from Wawa.
Hoping to do a big indoor ride tomorrow since nobody local has a spoke, and my MTB is also down with a bent hanger which nobody has in stock locally either
Here is said bent hanger from a ride earlier this week, AXS derailleur is stout
After my broken spoke fiasco yesterday I managed to find whole box of spokes that my friend Jim had. Quick stop at LBS and off I went at 1pm, didn’t have time for a longer ride so just made this one a bit harder
Big loop (for me, right now) in the Sierra foothills. Lack of weights and any real ‘climbing’ work showed on the inclines.
Has me thinking of the next training plan and what I want to tweak to improve this.
Great ride though, and a big relief from wildfire smoke we have been dealing with lately.
Steady Z2 ride (with a couple Strava segment efforts) out into the countryside for a loop before heading back. Quite happy with my performance on these structureless, fun rides this week. It’s really put my fitness and improvement into perspective after having felt down on myself at the end of specialty as I was failing workouts. A year ago, a ride like this would have been 1-2 mph slower average speed and I’d have felt wrecked by the time I got home. Today, I felt invincible at this pace.
Delighted with my performance, but not by my ranking
Doing ok when the road goes up, doing well when the road goes down.
Getting hammered when the big guys put on the hurt on the flat though.
I need to keep at it, but I might actually revise my nutrition strategy for ALL workouts.
I don’t need to lose that much weight, what I need at the moment is raw power.
Bring it on!
Last 15 laps were a little rough with some cramping preventing me for standing out of the saddle, so probably need to think about some electrolytes to supplement the carbs. But overall really happy with the 203 NP over such a long duration.
Planning a full Everest on the same segment about a year from now.
First decent ride after a week on holiday.
My goal is 100 miles a week so I’m pleased to have managed it this week.
Rode a couple of local streets to make it 80 miles and had to fix a flat 500 yards from home🙄
(Apologies for breaking Rule#49)
Didn’t fancy a walk home in cleats…
I probably need to retest my last test was in the middle of a knee injury and other sh1t going on. I don’t think TR has me down for another for a few weeks and now its end of season I am not in a rush and may replace it with a non ERG 20min test. My Suito seems too harsh on ERG, that how I think I hurt the knee in the first place.
For the last two-three weeks my e’FTP has been a consistent 293-296w back to where it was pre knee/Sh1t. The eFTP value for me seems more akin to my 20min max at that time.
During that cr@ppy period the e’FTP also seemed more akin to 20min max values, rather than 95% of them.
Miserable headwind for the first half, which I expected because it’s an island, but which I did not mentally prepare for. Also got half-way across a bridge and then walked the rest of the way because I thought the crosswind was going to toss me into the ocean.
Wow. Norway looks so beautiful @ellotheth ! I have a Norwegian Fjord pony, but she was bred in the US. It’s funny but Americans seem to like to name Fjord horses Oslo and Bergen.
