Hello all,
So, I completed my next two sessions, one on Friday and one last night. I've noticed for a while now that I tend to slip forward on the saddle - its level, so I thought I'd move it forwards just a few mm. I don't usually mess about with the setup but I've recorded the previous setting so I can always go back. I really seemed to help on the next session (Carson), I was definitely more comfortable and didn't need to stop at all due to numbness (which usually happens when I slip forwards and don't notice for a while). You'll see that I did stop toward the end, but this was due to something else that I may as well share:
I asked my daughter if she'd fill my water bottle up for me and she went off with it and came back and handed it to me. "Is that okay" she said, I said "Yes, babe, that's perfect, thanks." She went off happily. I raise it to my lips and gave it a good squeeze, where, due to my daughter's cross threading of the lid, I was covered in water. Shortly after that, all data went off on the trainer, there was no power, HR, cadence. I soon realised that the Ant+ dongle was sitting on the floor in a shallow puddle of water. So, I dried it off and thatkfully everything recovered
So, Carson went well, I'm not too keen (or good at) the ILT sections but I suppose I'll improve. I think my form is definitely improving, specifically the pedalling mechanics and this is due to the excellent advice from TR. Funny, but I've always looked at the way professional riders ride and I have always tried to mimic them a bit in the way they hold themselves on the bike. I've always resisted rolling my shoulders and I have always tried to look like I'm not working, even when I am. This is coming in really handy now as TR is recommending this as a way to keep sit bones planted on the saddle and to keep good form.
Eclipse came next and my arse knew it. I got very numb around 55 mins so I had to pause and get some blood circulating down there. This happened again at 1hr 15mins. A bit annoying after I was so comfy following my saddle adjustment, but I will see. It was a 90min session, compared to Carson's 60min session. I don't know if pausing adversely affects the data, but it had to be done!
Eclipse was hard work since there were 20 min sessions closeish (90%ish) to my FTP. The first tries out a quick cadence, the second a slower cadence (that I didn't like), and the 3rd, I think, (my daughter came in and distracetde me a bit), was left up to me, so I took it quick. Pictures below:
Felt knackered the last few days and managed to escape for a quick outdoors training session today and felt cr@p. I'm hoping its just that I have had a busy week at work plus a cr@ppy McDonalds lunch courtesy of my boss and not that I've blown it too much ahead of my first tt of the season 
Still plenty of room for improvement as I wasn't down in the Ski Poles enough, which was a good job when I rounded a blind bend in the second last village to find a queue of stationary cars 
