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140tss is a fair ride, it's not hard but in the middle, but it's definitely not easy. You should recover by the next day, but it's not easy.
200tss is hard and you can recovery full the next day.180 in 2h30 is 70tss pet hour, so no doubt, that's pretty tough riding.
If you have a big ctl then you can handle more daily stress. At a ctl of 60 you can't handle much. Ctl shows a few things,but typically the bigger your ctl the faster you can recover. And thus the harder you can train.
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just following this up- cheers for the advice people.
Have continued to commute in taking recovery ride days much more easy. Had a week off in cornwall but snuck a few high intensity rides in but it still dipped my CTL. However my CTL is definitely on the incline and I feel much better.
Have 2016 PB'd power data from 1min - 30mins over last few weeks and set a new FTP while also beating my 10 TT time (I havn't done many)
perhaps the weather is also helping..
apc
just intrigued that you mentioned that 140 is a tough ride. I did 180 last weekend over 2 1/2hrs which was certainly a tough ride! It was one of the toughest rides id done in a while but had a day off and an easy ride the day before that.
Before commuting I was used to going for a hard ride, rest day, hard ride, repeat.. rather than riding everyday.
Im going to increase my hours, lower the intensity on rest days and see if I can commute every day without being a wreck by the weekend.