2019 Structured training

[Ming the Merciless]

Not fully recovered yet so did some endurance zone riding today instead of lactate threshold intervals. Will do the lactate intervals tomorrow all being well. Then a long outdoor ride on Sunday to get back up towards Audax distances.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Interesting article on detaining

https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/how-much-down-time-is-too-much-the-concept-of-detr/

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Manage to hit the delayed intervals today. An extra day makes all the difference after a hard workout.

 

[mattobrien]

Interesting article on detaining

https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/how-much-down-time-is-too-much-the-concept-of-detr/

Talk about disappointing - I was looking forward to reading an article about how to apprehend and confine people and all I got was an article about become less fit if you don't train

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Talk about disappointing - I was looking forward to reading an article about how to apprehend and confine people and all I got was an article about become less fit if you don't train

You detain them in their pain cave.

 

[mattobrien]

You detain them in their pain cave.

I do seem to have been confined to the cave for quite some time now. Maybe one day I will actually cycle outside. It will be interesting to see what my indoor / outdoor ratio is this year.

 

[Nebulous]

After working all winter on the turbo the weather has turned a bit warmer and I've suddenly realised it's only 4 weeks until my first audax. I've turned up the effort a bit and have done 260km this week. I'm pleased with the fact that half of that was outdoors.

A 52 mile ride today, into a 23 mile an hour headwind. At one point I was struggling to hold 15 km an hour on the flat. Ended up with an average of 14.1mph.

You don't get that on zwift!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

After working all winter on the turbo the weather has turned a bit warmer and I've suddenly realised it's only 4 weeks until my first audax. I've turned up the effort a bit and have done 260km this week. I'm pleased with the fact that half of that was outdoors.

A 52 mile ride today, into a 23 mile an hour headwind. At one point I was struggling to hold 15 km an hour on the flat. Ended up with an average of 14.1mph.

You don't get that on zwift!

Yes indeed, I nipped out today for 200km. It was not meant to be that long but after a good day with no mechanicals I extended it a bit towards the end. Like you first Audax in four weeks. Feel a bit better about getting back up to distance now.

 

[CXRAndy]

A 52 mile ride today, into a 23 mile an hour headwind. At one point I was struggling to hold 15 km an hour on the flat. Ended up with an average of 14.1mph

You went the wrong way, you could of had a 28mph ave with a 23mph tailwind

 

[Nebulous]

You went the wrong way, you could of had a 28mph ave with a 23mph tailwind

I usually do a loop, or out and back, but unfortunately I was away for the weekend and decided to bike home - so it had to be point to point. A bit of climbing as well, though the open tops were more strenuous than going up the hills.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Aerobic decoupling has dropped to 5.7% from the original 10% at the start of January. A good sign that the aerobic base is nearing completion and that I will be ready to start my build phases soon. The books I have recommned it drops below 5% before you move onto the next stage of training.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I’m having a nice easy couple of weeks of active recovery, mainly doing endurance work with little drills to keep me from falling asleep. Hour long, easy sessions almost daily as I am not cycling on the school run as it’s half term. Rest day on Sundays.

Deciding whether or not I should do a third active recover week as work is very physical at the moment. Trees and hedges mainly. Some hard digging too. Must be good core strength work surely?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Did my delayed V02 Max intervals today. Warm up, 5 x 3 min at Vo2 max, 3 min recoveries, Cool down. They almost killed me last week at the new intensities. Seemed to handle them better today but boy am I glad when I reach the cool down period.

I put all the data into Golden Cheetah and it estimates that my V02 Max has climbed 13% since beginning of Jan which is excellent news.

 

[HLaB]

My coach has put me on a commute only rest week before a FTP test next week.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cycling & suffering - a special relationship http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/47278392