Trainerroad

Would anyone be able to help make a couple of custom sessions for me? The download for the builder won’t work on my Mac

Can't you do it online?

https://support.trainerroad.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034878072-How-to-Use-the-Workout-Creator-on-macOS-Catalina

or https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/workout-creator-on-mac-osx-mojave/7569/17

Or, raise a call with their support.

Can’t see how.

@hippy it’s more the age of the Mac I think sadly

Fuck. Just added another 23W. So, I've now bested my indoor AND outdoor FTP PBs.

Thaaaaaats lockdown

Yes

Do you need my login details or just create and send to me?

I think I can only share if we are in a 'team'. Otherwise yes login and create as you.

Dm'd

Yeah, seems pretty fucking pointless with no racing on but I guess it's adding something healthy to my day and the very fact I had a Ramp Test meant it was the first night I'd not had a drink for maybe a fortnight/month.

LOL @ "Wilhelm +5 consists of 7x5-minute repeats at 108% FTP separated by 5-minute recovery" after FTP bump. I think it was better than last time I did this jump, in that I managed 1 full interval and a second one with a pause before quitting.

I'm not sure how much thought they put into the base -> build jump. Think they should start with either reduced number of intervals or reduced duration for the first x weeks.

I'll have another crack at the next one and then decide whether or not to bother or just do another 6 weeks of sweetspot.

Next one: "Fang Mountain +3 is 6x9-minute over-under intervals with 1-minute valleys at 95% FTP and 2-minute peaks that ascend to 110% FTP. Recoveries between OU's are 6 minutes long."

Do they think I'm still racing crits?

7x5-minute repeats at 108% FTP

I managed 1 full interval and a second one with a pause before quitting.

I haven’t used TR for a while now and this reminds me why I stopped. I found the jump to be so hard sometimes that I would go into sessions feeling properly apprehensive, which led to general lack of motivation.

Saying that, this lockdown (and my new pizza oven) mean that I urgently need to get back on it.

Yeah, definitely went into this thinking "no fucking way, but I'll give it a crack" but at the same time I wasn't angry when I failed it. If I fail the sweetspot stuff that I've been nailing I get proper shitty :)

So, I'll give 'Fang Mountain +3' a go and make a call based on progress. If it's fucked, I'm going back to base sweetspot - it's more useful to me anyway considering I never go near VO2max in racing these days. Although I'm reading PJ's Corinthian Endeavour at the moment so now I want to race a hill climb again... if only to remind myself why I don't bother.

Yep, that, just with slightly longer hair and less brother/sister action.

I'll have another crack at the next one and then decide whether or not to bother or just do another 6 weeks of sweetspot.

With no races for the foreseeable future, I've given up on the Trainerroad training program, and am mainly doing sweetspot sessions. I might up the intensity in a month or so, but I'd be surprised if there are races this year. Hard to see how you can socially distance in a cross race.

Good book. May read again this year.

It'd be easy for me, I'd be so far out the back it'd be a solo ride until I was lapped and then I can go home. ;)

Finished it tonight. Now do I read I Like Alf or should I give another author a go?

Chatting to a friend in Spain tonight: "By the look of things you will be able to travel to Spain from end of June onwards so races are likely to go ahead in my opinion."

Maybe if I travel with my Aussie passport they won't think I've been using my 'British common sense' and actually be allowed in..

I've not finished two TR workouts in a row which is annoying and not like me, I may be a weakling but I'm pretty good at pushing myself quite hard.

They both have blocks close to FTP with sprint 'spikes' of higher wattage. I literally couldn't finish either, my energy/power just fell away and I was forced to give up on both.

Any idea what gives? They were Clark and Jepson.

I am not a sprinter by any means and I feel like I just don't have powerful enough legs for what it's asking me to do.

Those sort of sessions are horrible.
You don't have to do every interval is what I've found. Maybe do every other spike?

Hit pause and/or knock them back 5% and then try to bump things back up to 100% later in the sesh. Negative splits and that.