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Another monthly ramp test tonight. 1min peak power was a mighty 1w higher than last month.
This is the first test this "season" that I haven't seen a big jump, but I'm sanguine on two counts:
a) Obviously perpetual gainz are unrealistic and any upward trend is likely to include some noise. One month of flatlining doesn't indicate a plateau in development.
b) For unknown reasons I've felt unusually low all week, and today has definitely been a recent minimum. I struggled to get up this morning, nodded my way through a zoom call and have achieved virtually nothing for work. I started the turbo an hour later than planned, felt flat during the warmup and still achieved the same peak power with lower perceived effort (i.e. I felt I quit sooner than I might have done).
So, I'll keep my training zones the same for next month, and experiment with going for an easy ride tomorrow morning (typically I go in the early evening). Also I'm moving on to the "Bossi intervals" described upthread which are a little daunting.