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Did my VO2 session this morning. This is one workout I’m not going to do heat acclimatisation during. It was a 5 x 7 x 30 / 30 session with 2.5 min recoveries between sets. First one after FTP bump and felt okay.
Does anyone use the Strava fitness score?
I kind of do. I use the fitness charts on intervals.icu to plan and review training. Seems a bit better as it gives you graphical representation of "Form" which helps to prevent over training.
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Will likely be told by others here it is not useful but I like it, and there are lots of other useful bits of data that you can look at in "Totals" tab, and the "Compare" tabs.
Happy to share my training plan for the Maratona which is based on a Haute Alpe plan
Blimey you spent a lot of time in the high risk area
Blimey you spent a lot of time in the high risk area
But it is nowt compared to what I was doing during lockdown when I had only been cycling a few months and discovered the turbo! 😄 (NB didn't have intervals.icu back then)
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I kind of do. I use the fitness charts on intervals.icu to plan and review training. Seems a bit better as it gives you graphical representation of "Form" which helps to prevent over training.
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Will likely be told by others here it is not useful but I like it, and there are lots of other useful bits of data that you can look at in "Totals" tab, and the "Compare" tabs.
Happy to share my training plan for the Maratona which is based on a Haute Alpe plan
Consequence of doing long endurance rides, mostly zone 1 and 2 but over 5 hours long. I also have a 4 day weekend every week which is when I do most of my cycling, rather than spread out through the week
Thanks
I’d be interested to see your training plan. My trips in two weeks so my plan at this point is mainly based around denial and my pre disposition for stubbornness! But I’d look at your plan all the same.
Not really, being in the red is down to a steep increase in load compared to your typical training load. I typically will have 3-5 hour Z2 rides as well as a 2-3 hour one during the week and only hit the red zone when I’ve had one of my ultra endurance events.
Being in the red frequently means your fatigue is out pacing your fitness most of the time.
We'll see! It's very hilly where I live - many of my recovery rides can have >500 m elevation
Has been a tricky balance. The event I am training for has 4200m+ elevation in 138 km, so have wanted to train endurance, nutrition, fueling and climbing all at the same time. Have been training for 9 months and pattern I have developed seems OK for me and my diary. We'll see! It's very hilly where I live - many of my recovery rides can have >500 m elevation and my longer rides have hills thrown in as well.
Here’s my chart for comparison, note my current fitness score is 100 against your 57. I’m in transition at the moment as April and May were big months for my ultra distance events (300,400,600km events) and clearly the load will drop as the events fall out the window. The red periods you can see were down to my events.
I’d just advise caution about steep ramp rates, as it’s not considered optimal for increasing your fitness, for your upcoming event.
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