If you're over 40 don't do Sweet Spot

[bbarrera]

@Slowsher

At 80% fast twitch, doesn’t that instead mean that you can “afford” sweet spot?

My fractional utilization (FTP as %VO2max) is 89% which is way above normal, so no, I’m not interested in doing more sweet spot. I need to do more VO2max work, would be much happier with fractional utilization below 86%.

But per my request, coach put a 45 minute freestyle tempo workout into the rotation and tonight I pushed it out to an hour:

Where did you ride OUTSIDE today (2021)

Simulated 1 hour climb in Flatland: [image] 0.88 IF and no decoupling (negative 4.4%). Just a nice and easy upper tempo push that ended in lower threshold. Don’t call it sweet spot! LOL. Had to do a loop-de-loop coming back via the west end of town to avoid the rain. [image]