Hit my time goal:
Volume seems to work, peak FTP by year versus hours:
Trained harder in 2017, and a lot more injuries and unplanned time off. Going easier in 2022 delivered more consistency with a small tradeoff in hours to basically reach same fitness:
however I didn’t train threshold power in 2022 so peak 1-hour power PR is still 2017.
Climbing similar to hours:
I’ve sliced and diced my data a bunch of ways, those comparisons were the ones that stood out.
For 2023 my ‘WindWarrior: what works’ will see a focus on:
- endurance and volume as first principle
- add more intervals aimed at increasing power from 30-min to 2-hours
- more climbing
Basically a repeat of what I did in 2016 and early 2017.