Cycling Fitness / Training Advice

I lie - more like 1,200

Yeh, I was mostly interested as it's sitting in front of you on strava. I mostly think about w/kg

TSB -43 today. Dead to the world.

My legs have a TSB of 22
My arse has a TSB of -4977782434387

Ha. That's the benefit of riding silly long miles. Piles.

No 'roids here Chop, no just two big scabs where the saddle wore the skin away.

Tasty.

-54tsb. Unchartered territory.

Be careful, that's get injured territory.

VAM is heavily influenced by the gradient, so isn't really a good performance indicator. Watts per kg is better.

No reason to drop your head just yet. Ideal numbers to start taper with a bit of speed work at the sharp end.

#hippyisalwaysright

Finally got a Garmin which means I can finally nerd out on Golden Cheetah, even though I've only got an HRM so missing out on most of the features.

My question is: how useful is TRIMP for looking at training load/stress balance?

So tapering for an event.

Last 8 weeks been averaging 16 hours of riding and c. 400km inc. 150km of commuting and Ride London is next Sunday and I have the week off work.

Come at me amateur coaches.

Cut the volume, keep the intensity.

Is your number keypad broken? I need stats

Couple of easy recovery rides, and maybe one or two short intensity sessions, just to keep your body primed.

Horrible bonk 30 miles from home on Saturday on a long ride after quite a big week riding. Ground my way back at snail's pace. Felt shit yesterday and achieved nothing. Still feeling pretty lethargic.

Hope I'mfeeling back on it tomorrow....

I swear a Shit ride like that didn't used go take over 24 hours to get over. But I am in my 30s now....

Turbo, daily. 2hrs of tabata protocol or vomiting blood, whichever comes first.
Every second day is a brick session, after turbo you run a marathon. Don't ask, just do it.
Day before the race, don't sleep, sleep slows you down, do hill repeats until your chain snaps. Do not stop until your chain snaps. Then and only then will you be ready.

Wise words hippo.

Remembered BC membership gets you all their training plans for choppers with all the taperz

Started a new training block this morning after 2.5 months of long rides and losing weight for alpine fun. all the familiar sensations came flooding back - lactic burn, sweat pouring from every limb, retching...I'm tempted to sack it all off and start doing audax instead.

FTP test confirmed suspicion I've lost about 30w. Here we go again..

I had the pleasure a few weeks back. First week was grim, second worse and then the legs came back. Good luck.

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..

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I've been doing higher intensity sessions outdoors recently, which I'd normally do on the turbo, and have been struggling to put out the same numbers outside as I do in. I know this has been talked about to death, but but by bit the road power is getting closer to turbo power.

Thinking ahead to the colder, darker days when I'll be back doing these sessions indoors, should I be thinking about changing my turbo (Kurt Kinetic Road Machine) to something with better KE and road feel? Or is it just a fact of life that turbo works slightly different muscles and a period of adjustment is inevitable?

Good data.

I don't know anyone who has the same indoor and outdoor power, not sure if what you're asking is possible!

I guess if you do want something super 'realistic' you're going to have to shell out a lot of bucks and go for a tacx neo or even a wattbike... but for that much money you could just buy a nice new bike.

I think you should stop overthinking it and just slightly modify your indoor and outdoor zones etc, like you clearly have been for the last few years