Today’s forecast yesterday was good so I decided not to do it yesterday (Friday) as I’d pondered earlier. Was a relatively hot afternoon yesterday anyway, & I decided I could do with the extra sleep cycle since my last workout on Wednesday.
So Disaster -1 is done. (TR - Strava)
I cut the recoveries down a little between threshold intervals because of time (I wanted to get to parkrun at 9), & also if I didn’t feel properly recovered for the next threshold interval I’d be less inclined to exceed the targets, & more likely to leave something in the tank for the end.
Was feeling it after the third firework, but by the 4th I realised it was either the sprints, or the tempo floats, so I sacrificed the tempo floats to hit the sprints. About 15 minutes before heading out I’d thrown a 3-teaspoon granulated espresso plus 100g of sugar down the hatch, & had consumed about another 250g (half the bottle) before starting the “castle” Z2 section. Effectively 240 grams per hour up to that point so I’m pretty sure I can count out nutrition as the cause of dying in the arse during the fireworks. 
Rather, I blame a complete lack of really long sweetspot intervals & minimal work over threshold for the last 14 months. And a lack of racing or hard group rides has very likely made me less inclined to properly put myself in the bin. But I’m okay with that; this year’s been all about that base (16000km so far) so it’ll be good to build on next year.
