Low volume polarized

No, however its flat around here and not an issue to ride steady for hours and hours (for example see my ‘Strava moose’ post here Too high intensity for base training - #19 by bbarrera).

I respond to volume. Recently did an HC climb after a couple days not feeling well. Here is 5100 feet of climbing with only 100 feet of descending, it was literally straight uphill for 4+ hours and I just wanted to get the work done without worrying about hitting the 180-215W target (in green on chart below) in plain sight on my Garmin:

lots of z1 power, from the past I knew that length of time and relatively low cadence were going to deliver adaptations. Sure enough, within 10 days I was already seeing adaptations and highest power-to-HR of the year on my two hour Tuesday ride (and it was very warm on that day). And last week (about 4 weeks after the climb), I hit all-time power-to-HR on a 2 hour endurance ride in the gym, partly because the average temp in gym was around 65 degrees / 18C and a LOT lower than my usual 80-100F / 27-38C outside summer rides.

2 Likes