Just wondering whether you guys (and girls) think that this workout would be doable (if FTP is accurate).
20 at 220
20 at 240
20 at 260
20 at 280
20 at 300
20 at 320
No rest or anything in between.
Interested to know any thoughts or advice.
Thank you.
Best of luck,
Let us know how you get on
What is the purpose of this workout?
We would do progression runs in college but usually pace dropped down every mile (5 min-ish). 20 min seems a bit long. For a 2 hour effort I would think you are hitting pretty close to a race effort of that duration. Is that the goal here?
Trainerroad’s 40k TT plan contains lot of this kind of workouts (eg Tower series), with description saying:
raise your muscular endurance, grow your ability to withstand increasing physical discomfort and your increase your time to exhaustion
Your shown workout specifically would be at Progression Level 7.8, which makes it hard but certainly can be worked up to.
Camada (PL 10.0) has final step lasting 53min 
Yes, it is doable.
Whether it is doable by person X depends on more than just the FTP being accurate - though that is a good start.
For example, some people get to 320FTP without doing many 2 hour workouts. I think that would make it less doable.
IF of 0.84 for 2h, doable but very though
I think that most people hover around the 4.0 to 6.0 PL level range when their FTP is accurate - so I believe that the majority of people would not be able to complete that workout - but some could.
Perfectly doable but why? What is the purpose?
Yeah, this kind of workout doesn’t need to be part of usual base/build training periods. It suits more for 40k TT specialization phase, where athlete might not want to increase FTP but focuses on TTE at FTP. Also, if you are interested developing TTE at different intensities, it might not be best suited either (at least ramp rate and/or final step intensity)
Thank you for all the replies - really appreciate it.
Will give it a go at some point fairly soon and let you all know how it goes.
Also does anyone have a site/app/trainerroad etc where I can input this kind of workout to get an intensity rating? (As some of you have helpfully rated) Thanks again.
Just create workout in TR Workout creator or in TrainingPeaks so it syncs to TR calendar. From there TR itself rates it. But beware, it has some gotchas that may inflate PL and ruin later recommendations.
