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Have had a few days off, we had a scheduled power outage on Thursday, yesterday I was gardening and today am visiting my dad. I think I have done too much base work and possibly ought to do a build program. Plus possibly need to find more violent or stimulating stuff to watch on Netflix to get me fired up. The light comedy of Lucifer or Rake isn’t exciting enough.
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I can't watch stuff if I'm doing SS or above sessions. I can listen to music at the most and even then I have a selection of mixes or whatever that will work for a given intensity and they rotate over time.
Below say 70% I could probably watch stuff but I generally don't unless I'm doing long sessions and I haven't done long turbo sessions for a long while now.
When I'm talking about time off though, I'm not talking about days. I'm talking about weeks or more. Like, if you are changing stuff up and you get nothing back then maybe it's time to put some hiking boots on and go and be in nature instead of staring at watts on a screen or whatever.
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Do you use anything to track performance and training load over time? Something like http://www.intervals.icu will give you loads of tools to show if you are improving or putting yourself in a hole with training load
hippy
dubtap
Change something.
Are you tired? Are you not pushing as hard in tests? Have you done so much SS you've blunted your top end? Are you just sick of sitting on a bike inside every day? Etc
Last year in lockdown I raised my indoor FTP above what I'd done outside and then it progressively declined before the Breckland 12hr. Could I explain it? Maybe it was just trainer fatigued. Maybe there was a physiological reason but if there was I don't know what it was.
Sometimes you just need to do something else.