Cycling Workouts: Discussion/Encouragement/Sharing/Banter

[HLaB]

Down the cycle path to Yaxley to let the rush hour traffic clear then I started my warm up for a 3x15 SS session with 6 min recoveries, down Holme Road and on the Old A1 with a few rbt turns to stay close to home. I think I played it too safe in a string wind rather than focusing on getting the power out, and the first two intervals in particular were more like tempo. The 3rd interval is a little longer than 15minutes, but it finished at the bottom of a local hill sprint so I carried on.

 

[HLaB]

A recovery week for me (albeit my club TT is tomorrow) but I fancied a group ride. Lol, it bucketed this afternoon and only me another person turned up for what turned out to be an almost perfect evening. Home to Yaxley to Farcet to Pondersbridge to Ramsey St Mary to Holme (where my ride partner left). The official route went up Holme Road to Yaxley but I went out to the old A1 and missed the London Road Yaxley junction out and home. I strayed out of zone to avoid getting soaked at the end when it threatened to turn torrential again but the shower lasted less than a minute.


ima

 

[HLaB]

A recovery week for me (albeit my club TT is tomorrow) but I fancied a group ride. Lol, it bucketed this afternoon and only me another person turned up for what turned out to be an almost perfect evening. Home to Yaxley to Farcet to Pondersbridge to Ramsey St Mary to Holme (where my ride partner left). The official route went up Holme Road to Yaxley but I went out to the old A1 and missed the London Road Yaxley junction out and home. I strayed out of zone to avoid getting soaked at the end when it threatened to turn torrential again but the shower lasted less than a minute.



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ima

It was the ideal build up for the TT, I PB'd it by 9s tonight

 

[IrishAl]

It was the ideal build up for the TT, I PB'd it by 9s tonight

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Nice! Are you in leg warmers?? 😮‍💨

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Nicely done

 

[Norry1]

It was the ideal build up for the TT, I PB'd it by 9s tonight

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Good job

Looks like you were so fast the camera couldn't cope

 

[HLaB]

Nice! Are you in leg warmers?? 😮‍💨

Knee Warmers, long socks and aero socks and my shoe vents are closed too. I need them thanks to chemo. The slightest bit of breeze can turn my feet numb. It is gradually improving my whole lower leg used to go numb when I finished Chemo.

 

[Legs]

Gorby!

 

[Legs]

…and because Mrs Legs is away for the weekend, after the boys had gone to bed I did another medium-length workout. I couldn’t face a flat Z2 effort so I chose this one. My “fitness” on intervals.icu is back up to 29, having dropped below 20 last month. That may not sound much, but I don’t often get above mid-30s.

 

[HLaB]

First WO in a couple of weeks; 2 weeks ago I had a bad reaction to the new CT scan dye and rested, and last week was a recovery week and I rode outdoors. Given that as expected the plan adapted down to a low level VO2 max session, Sleeping Beauty -4 (PL=1.5 for TR users info). On Sunday it was great weather so I popped a ton (easy round here it’s pretty flat) so it made Monday yellow (easy day). But going for a 3mile walk on Monday made today yellow too and the plan wanted to adapt down again to Recess -1 (a level 1, 30min recovery ride). Given the VO2 max wo was low level one though I rejected the adaptation and stuck with Sleeping Beauty -4. I didn’t quite push into the VO2 max oxygen zone and could have done with another interval or two to push into it, so I think I did the right thing rejecting the recovery ride.