Planned session fixed by pool closure so, easy bike at lunch and easy lifting in the evening
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TR Beech was in my calendar tonight. I tried it a few times in RGT but something in my parents garage was interfering with it. It runs fine with less bandwidth in my flat 
So I gave up and did it on TR. It wasn’t the smoothist of rides with coming off on ice yesterday I have twinged something on the inside of my stronger leg. I thought it was more of a zone 2 power workout however which wouldn’t have been too problematic but it felt a wee bit harder. I see it drifted into zone3 which explains how my RPE felt it was slightly harder than it should have been. If I had noticed that before the start I think I would have swapped it for tomorrow’s Pettit. At least my HR stayed mostly in HR Z2.
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What app is that for strength training?
Garmin Connect. Fenix Watch has a strength activity.
I’ve programmed in StrongLifts A and B workouts.
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I have one tonight. With 7 weeks sick from beginning of November and Christmas I’m not hoping for much, and I’m a bit stuck at which watts to start my pacing strategy.
Some Christmas timber to shift, around 6 kilos so threw the Sweet Spot Base Low Volume II 6 week program into the TR Calendar. Will be mixing it with some runs so hopefully see some results in a few months. UTMB Event scheduled for May, so need to get back in some sort of shape for that.
Started with a 13km run, on pavement at the weekend, I usually do trails but mud was excessive!
Nice slow and steady 5km run on Tuesday night with other half, talking pace very zone2, this pace does feel I can run all day at, body makeup might disagree…
Accepted TRs AI FTP value and last night did Jordan Sweetspot 2.0, which was productive and I marked as easy.
Plan for January is three TR workouts and 3-4 hours of running per week.
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I’ve done quite a few 20 minute assessments, ignore hr and watts, go off of feeling. Don’t set any expectations for wattage in a scenario like yours!
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Appreciated thanks. I’m also a veteran of tests, and the best approach for me is a slight negative split with 5 min intervals with wattage targets. My last was 270/280/290/300 albeit there is always a push at the end!
Today though I’ve no idea where to start - I guess 270 again then adjust for feel as I’ve been doing well on V02max intervals recently.
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Brick session 90+10
Was not feeling the love from 30-60mins but turned on the last episode of the Night Manager to get me through it and was fine.
Very happy to start the short run though I felt some kind of problem in my left knee, walked for a bit a restarted. 6:00/km, raised it to 5:00/km at the end to catch up and make the average better.
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Mount Regan
RPE was higher than it should have been during the first two intervals, probably because I got a flu vaccine yesterday and was achy. The workout did wonders to make me feel better overall, though, except the sore shoulder from the needle stick - not sure why that still hurts. 
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Pettit was in my calendar tonight but doh after just 11.5minutes my laptop flashed up low battery. Whilst I had plugged it in the the plug to the laptop had come loose. So following on from the do you stop in a workout, yes, I had to jump of and plug that in (the battery would have never lasted 10mins yet alone nearly 50mins).
I toggled off ERG for the first form sprint and it for some reason locked up the laptop so TR never recorded my Olympic Class sprint. The dual recording garmin did though, World Class 
The laptop seemed ok after that although ERG seemed to be up and down a little too much despite a reasonably consistent cadence.
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Eventful night and not enough sleep, typically post-call trash. Looking forward to getting on a regular sleep schedule again. Lifted before.
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According to HR this was more difficult than Tuesday’s VO2Max 9.4. It felt that way.
The intensity is probably too high for me to recover with a single day rest between.
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I use the TR app on my iPhone, connected to the wattbike. I find that I can switch from erg mode to resistance mode without stopping, such as for a sprint as you did. However, if I want to switch back to erg mode, I really need to stop pedaling and let the workout stop momentarily. Then switching back to erg mode works for me.
You don’t need to stop on the laptop either to switch ERG off, its just a case of pressing ‘T’. Its the same to toggle it on. I didn’t actually stop to toggle it for the sprint, just TR locked up (I think something in my parent’s garage was interfering with it but my next session will be in my flat anyway so its not worth finding the cause). Toggling off/on seemed to have been ok for the next sprint aswell.
Threshold 3.0
Kennedy
Wouldn’t at this point want to do anything longer on the trainer, lack of time on it shows. No digging deep required but marked down as hard as if I put anything less I know adaptions in plan would increase to point I woudn’t enjoy at this point in time. There’s no rush to get back to previous levels this early in the year. Had some unwelcome cramping in the calfs in the hours afterwards.
Next bike workout isn’t until Monday, have a couple of easy trail runs marked down until then.
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