I was wondering how to adapt my training regime and trying to make sense of the various workouts. My particular situation is trying to adapt the 40kTT plans when I am doing TTs up to 100m and possibly longer. Also I am doing a lot of B races for pacing, so don’t need the pacing workouts as much. Once these are removed from mid-vol, and I add in a couple of long TT rides outside, and an anaerobic session (because i feel I am lacking that), then I need a good set of incremental threshold sessions and workouts. Does that make sense? However finding these is a bit of a nightmare/maze with so many variations and no clear incremental logic to follow. (apart from TSS)
What I was trying to do (but found really difficult) was gauge workouts that went (for example)
98% FTP 6x10mins at 4 min rest = 60mins efforts and 20min rest…
then find
6x11 mins with 4 mins rest,
or
6x10 mins with 3 mins rest
etc. so that the intervals are increasing incrementally in difficulty.
The problem I had with some groups of workouts was I kept seeing a +1 or +2 variant, with a larger TSS, but it was actually just an increase in the length of the session afterwards or even the rest period, so it was not really an increase in the intensity of the session’s purpose.
So in searching for similar workouts, I would like to find, incrementally harder sessions, in terms of the intensity of the efforts, (not simply the FTP.
Does that make sense @chad @Nate_Pearson #feature-request