Jeeeeeezus
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Gage:
I was expecting to be punished for taking the weekend off and playing video games, but that did not happen, which is not gonna help me not do the same thing next weekend 
Pretty high heart rate but RPE was chill.
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Ainslie -4 was in my diary tonight and although it’s been a good night I decided to do it on the turbo and on the relatively flat virtual Borrego course in RGT. It was actually scheduled for tomorrow night (Tuesday) but a Wednesday TT has come up so I brought it forward so I could have a rest or Endurance day on Tuesday.
Edit Oopsie, the original event tonight before it was postponed was on a Wednesday but the postponed event is tonight Tuesday. I could have done without a Threshold session the night before but hey ho 
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Ramp
TR AT adjusting my progress levels which I’m enjoying, ramp tonight was done and levels have only dropped a little bit, did expect them to re-zero.
Happy to be at same level as I’ve increased other ‘activities’ and the indoor cycling I imagined might have taken a hit. Regardless I had the previous FTP target as my bailing point, maybe I could have done more but brain had other ideas, 1W more in the end
so I over cooked it!
Enjoying my return to doing some runs, also doing plenty of walking in between, keeping to 5km+ everyday…had a WaterRower delivered last week so that’s also being enjoyed too.
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Black Kaweah +1, plus an extended warmup and cooldown.
I’ve been doing most of my workouts outside lately so I must have missed this, but it looks like the average power dot and the previous interval summary has both shrunk. When did this happen?
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Stangate - 9 x 30s sprints @ 730w
The first 15 seconds of each sprint isn’t bad, so it’s really only about two minutes of real suffering. I’ll take this over a threshold workout any day.
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These are just killer when it’s hot. The power drop after the second set is when I realized I was gonna need another bottle, ended up finishing about 1.5L for the whole ride. But the legs had it no problem, soaked towel notwithstanding!
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Shasta was planned but replaced with this after not working out all weekend. Added 5% after warm-up to account for always being under the power target in ERG, still managed 500W+ for 7 of 8 intervals. Other than being sweaty and drippy this one went well. This one is almost my go-to workout.
See how I feel tomorrow, might add something from Workout Now.
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Sutton (endurance, 2h 30min)
In this final week of General Build (LV) I had three endurance-workouts lined up. But due to circumstances I only had time for two. So I figured : why not upgrade one of those to a double one 
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This is the first time I tried such a long endurance-effort indoor. Luckily I could combine it with a good movie, otherwise it’s hard to keep focus for so long. Easy for the body, hard for the brain.
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Budawang +1, outside:
I’m not clear on whether AT thought that a success or not, but I thought it went great. Absolutely love doing these outside. Super blustery on the way out, huge whitecaps all over the fjord, felt like I was gonna get blown over a couple times, but my interval hill was calm and I had an amazing tailwind on the way back. Almost ran over a sheep but it kicked its heels and dodged just in time.
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Wasn’t really feeling up to doing today’s workout after a long and large lunch. After watching the final Tour TT and napping it was time to get the work done. Plan called for a 60 minute workout but I subbed this instead to make-up for missing things during the week.
Warm-up had me questioning things but everything felt okay once the main intervals started.
Weird how this was a Sweet Spot workout but AT thought it was Tempo. Tomorrow, Sunday, is a planned brick with a 60 minute Tempo ride. We’ll see how that goes or if AT recommends a change.
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I would like to only say that apparently your avatar is “climber” version of mine 
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Spruce Knob +2 yesterday
Was a little concerned about 30-minute intervals but Tempo (85%) was just right. Bumped up the endurance a little to just below VT1.
Percee today
This was a bit more challenging than it originally looked, probably because I set the recovery intervals at 70% instead of the 65% that I have been doing more recently. Really should get back to 70% for all Sweet Spot workouts.
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Blue Cloud
Blue Cloud is a custom workout made up of 5x10-minute race-start intervals that each begin with a 30-second surge at 150% FTP and then quickly settles in at 90% FTP for the remaining 9 minutes. Each interval is separated by 5 minutes of recovery.
AT put Sloan +2 on my calendar again. I inserted a rest week half way through SSB I HV and I think AT sent me back to the beginning. After Sloan +2 and Sloan +3 in the first half, I figured out that I really don’t like those types of workouts. I’m getting the urge to do some more intensity, which means I’m mentally ready for the build phase.
30s @ 150% hard starts were too hard given that I’ve only done sweet spot work for the last six weeks, though. 30s @ 135% or 15s @ 150% would have been more achievable.
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Failed Anthony yesterday because I just didn’t want to keep going:
Possibly taking three days off for the vaccine and coming back with VO2max was a bad idea, but I made up for it with Brooks today:
Dropped my cadence a little for a couple because there was something about climbing drills in the workout description. Felt both uncomfortable and like I could go for a while longer, sweet spot strikes again.
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Ramp test 259-265. Followed it with Taku, as usual.
That puts me up 19 W since I started using the PM in February. Feels pretty good.
(I probably ought to email support about that -0.9 adjustment shown there on Taku)
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