More Pool woes eh?
Spencer for me, had to cut off the warm down due to taxi duties.
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Warlow. Just about ready for the next interval after each recovery phase. Now chill-out with the newspaper on the couch and trying a new protein mokka hot cup (??)
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Wife was going to be doing activities from 8:30 until noon⊠so I wasnât sure Iâd have the motivation to do this after she got back and just woke up early to get it over with. I think Iâll need a nap once she gets back and can take over parenting duties.
Here is my 2 hour version of BAys +2 that I created. Hoping that after the rest week, the weather will start to pick up and I can start moving these outdoors⊠but March is coming in like a lion around here, thereâs going to be a significant snow here tomorrow.
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I told the head lifeguard to tell the aquatic supervisor that my husband and I are going to leave town and when anybody asks why weâll say itâs because the pool was too hot and didnât have lane ropes. #smalltownproblems
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Today was the ardous Putuo for 4:15. Started later than planned but still managed to stick with it. My going in though was âmaybe Iâll do 3hrs and then 1hr outside on the trailsâ but I knew that was a cop-out. Then I thought, maybe the whole 4:15 and then some outdoor saddle time, but nixed that too. Just the turbo time today.
Todayâs ride followed yesterday afternoonâs hard swim of 3600m where the main set was pulling: 5x200m on 3:00 (came in ±2:45 so about 15s rest), 4x200m on 2:55 (about 10s rest), 3x200m on 2:50 (about 5s rest), 2x200m on 2:45 (yes, about 1s rest⊠but there was traffic in the lane), and 1x200m on 2:40 (ie fastest I could muster) and came in at 2:40. 2min rest between sets was luxurious.
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I have Putuo again on Monday, not particularly excited at the thought!
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I watched 6.5 tv episodes and tested a nutrition plan. Enjoy Monday!
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just finished fang mountain +3 for sustained power HV. itâs kind of nuts it has us averaging threshold for 54mins! Did it all, didnât crack once!
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Antelope for SSBLV1 week 2, and I clearly donât belong among you racers but Iâm proud of myself anyway.
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Iâm exhausted and hungry just reading about your workouts! Was your cadence really avg 65 for 4.5hrs?
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We all start somewhere! I think my first recorded FTP was 90
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(after creepinâ on your profile) WOW youâve basically doubled it!
Yes, and Iâm at my best w/kg to date 
. Progress has definitely not been linear and these days I feel a lot of my gains arenât necessarily FTP based.
What I found interesting was the data that Nate put up some time back: The Bell curve of cylists - how fast are the average TR users? - #124 by Nate_Pearson because I always felt I was way more to the left of the curve than I actually am.
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Iâd be willing to be most of us think that until we are presented with the facts. I had a borderline complex about not being a very good runner in HS (25 yrs ago!) because I wasnât the fastest guy on my team, yet I was a 1:56 half miler and sub 17 5K runner as an underdeveloped senior. Not elite, but way to the right of the bell curve. I let that âcomplexâ affect my enjoyment of the sport. Live and learn. I often wonder how fast I couldâve been had I stuck with it and kept working!
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Ha, yep, I am less left-ward than I expected.
Kaweah.
Timed it perfectly to finish together with the Omloop, cooldown started just as the chasers came over the line.
Not happy with my new âftpâ though, it hurts!
2 weeks to go till the over/unders show up so hope to improve a bit by then.
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Wilhelm +5.
(Endurance interval done at SS pace)
Sooo easy.
Iâm either doing something super right or doing something duper wrong.
And so help me god if I have to read âYour FTP is wrongâ one more time!!!
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Ansel Adams -2
After today, Iâm calling these intervals âStybarsâ 
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Yup. Right there, not like alternating between 50 & 80, but hovering around 65. I used to ride at 85-90 comfortably but downshifted. Lower cadence is equalling lower heart rate which should mean lower cardio drag for the run. Thatâs the idea, at least. I sent this q to the podcast but it wasnât picked up.
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