Tendency to put in more effort on workouts

[Gxespino]

@iamholland

Are you using powermatch for your workouts as well? If not, you should.

I thought I was but I’ll do a proper googling on “powermatch” prior to my next indoor session.

[d_diston]

Indeed - with SS, I feel as though there should always be a little left on the table.

Worst thing to do is to hammer it one day (when you shouldn’t be), paying for it over the next couple of days. This derails subsequent workouts, torpedoing consistency (which is the no 1 thing for progression).

In the past, I’ve been guilty of this (i.e., going too hard during sweetspot sessions and having to take a few days off). 10 years into training, I’ve realised that it’s better to go a little bit easier, recover well and nail the next session.

[splash]

@Gxespino

I just feel soo accomplished and the 3 weeks of work will seem like a waste.

At worst, you’ve done 3 weeks of endurance-level rides. That’s actually good base training.

I’d just go into a straight retest tomorrow. The ramp test is probably about as taxing as a vo2max workout, so shouldn’t be difficult to factor in. Also the new desktop app should give yoh a predicted ftp, so you can check while testing, now that you have a better idea what your ftp should be.

[willball12]

@Gxespino

I had guesstimated my FTP to be 225 (looked at 1 months worth of previous unstructured ride data) and when I hit that number the last 30 seconds of the ramp test I sort of just gave up thinking “yeah this is my number, don’t wanna push to hard or training the next few weeks will be too hard”. Lo and behold thats not how the ramp test works and my resulting FTP was 147.

You didn’t do the ramp test as intended so all of your training zones will be off.

Re-do the test and go to failure, see where you end up.

Restarting a plan 3 weeks in isn’t the biggest loss in the world.