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samrensho
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Bike's good but almost unchanged. Dropped the base bar about 40mm so my back's flat and left it like that. Feels ok and I haven't really felt like throwing any more money at it. I rode the Brighton Mitre end of season 25 in 58.41 for 4th place, which is ok but to be honest I hoped to be quite a bit faster.
As an aside, the race was amazing. Beautiful morning, nice course and so well run and an a £1.5K prize pot for 25 entries. Every woman and every road bike got a prize. Then tea and cakes afterwards, couldn't want for more.
Training not so much. 8 weeks into my plan and have dropped 1 watt on my latest FTP. I know there's a lot of variables but don't feel very strong atm and not really sure what to do. I guess my volume has gone down a fair bit from the summer, but I've been pretty good about the plan so I'd hope it'd do more than maintain where I was. I think also this conversation above about testing in the extensions vs not - I have been and I think therefore my vo2 max efforts haven't been hard enough. And I don't feel like I've adapted to the position in any meaningful way so I'm not certain it's helped there either.
I've never done well on training plans so I think I'm just going to go back to 2 zwift races a week, 1 long ride and as much zone 2 as I can fit in around that. Will find out in 4 weeks how that goes.