Trainerroad

I have 3 codes if anyone wants one?

You’ve got to laugh at Trainerroad’s text description of a breakaway simulation.

‘One min at 120% and then settle in for a few minutes at threshold and you’ll be away from the bunch’

Try sprinting your bollocks several times and then riding at 120% for three or four minutes to get a 20 second gap before realising nobody was stupid enough to come with you.

Better than the bloke at my LBS's crit sim: 45 minutes 85% with 30s @ 200% every 5 minutes (straight back at 85% after the sprint).

In my very limited experience, miss your clip in, flat out with 1 leg unclipped, panic brake, freewheel, repeat is more like it.

That said, it is a pretty brutal session

Or the park and ride style crits, 90% for 45 minutes, with 5-10 second sprints every 30 seconds.

If you're sprinting before you're at the finish line (or a paying prime), you're doing racing wrong.

you're doing racing wrong

Guaranteed. I’ve normally burned my matches well before any prime, let alone the finish.

Step 1: Identify the problem
Step 2: Take up golf?

Step 1: Identify the problem

I don’t race enough - six or eight races a year. I reckon I need to be racing week in week out to get myself in the mix at the sharp end of a race.

I enjoy it a lot but >£25 is a fair whack for the privilege of pinning a number on and finishing consistently just outside the points.

£25 per race? Fuck, that's a bit rich!

I think it was ~$10 a race when I last rubbed elbows. When you can race each day of the week even that gets spendy. Plus the 200+/year race lic and all the other costs.

Oh road race or crit?

Road races. I only do the odd crit but they’ve crept up to ~£15.

I can start doing LVRC races this year although I don’t think many are planned.

I know they won’t be any easier but at least the lack of super keen 18 year olds with coaches will make it seem like a level playing field

Yeah they were more expensive (plus we'd have to drive out to do them instead of riding to/from the start).

Cool tip, sync your Garmin with TR and feel special with double the chances for power PBs.
201 all time power PBs yesterday according to TR haha.

+15W making today's Ramp Test the second best all time. Will the next one get me an increase or will my yearly decline begin already? Place your bets...

Warmer weather = instant increase

FTP up 15w?

Mine went up similarly this week but I rejected it and I’m going to go halfway and test again in a few weeks. The thought of doing workouts at what is 5% higher for me didn’t exactly fill me with glee.

@hippy shortest interval is probably 30 mins, so less vomit inducing.

I'm not sure air density makes much difference when you're not moving :P

Yeah. It's not an unreasonable amount given my training history so I see no reason to dismiss it, at least until I fail two weeks of subsequent workouts ;).

But I'm only doing LV plan this year, not HV SS, so I have more time to recover in theory (unless I go and smash myself on gravel/mtb in the 'off' days).

I think the LV plans have more VO2 stuff whereas HV SS had none. It would make sense, coz you're trying to get similar results off less time so intensity has to increase.

Last few years I've been measuring my intervals in countries..

Mine isn’t too unreasonable either but I simply don’t fancy popping a bollock.

Normally I will just hit them and see how far I can go. If I do a week or two and seem to be failing everything I might turn it down, but it depends how far through the sessions I'm making it and if it's improving. Gotta also go in acknowledging outside stress. This is why I've moved on to the LV plan, because I've got too much other shit going on to do daily SS sessions.

So does everyone have AT now?

No, am still sulking about it.

Oh yeah. Me neither I don’t think. Just noticed something about it in the latest app update notes, but haven’t had an email.

Haha, just got this guy in my inbox

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