Cycling Workouts: Discussion/Encouragement/Sharing/Banter

[bobinski]

Tempo ride yesterday and today a climbing workout with 1/2 the workout over ftp. A days rest tomorrow then an increase in duration/intensity over the next week. Plank now up to 1min 15s before physical collapse 😀

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I’m in a recovery week this week. I have 3 x 7 x 30/30 VO2 max scheduled tomorrow.

 

[BurningLegs]

Tempo ride yesterday and today a climbing workout with 1/2 the workout over ftp. A days rest tomorrow then an increase in duration/intensity over the next week. Plank now up to 1min 15s before physical collapse 😀

That was a quick improvement on the plank!

 

[CXRAndy]

I find static exercises more difficult than doing lets say moving up and down from elbows to hands in a cyclic action. I can normally keep going for longer. That said I haven't done these exercises in a long time

 

[bobinski]

That was a quick improvement on the plank!

Yeah, but it’s not pretty 😁

 

[CXRAndy]

Yeah, but it’s not pretty 😁

Out of curiosity, plank'd

Better than I thought considering it must be several years ago I did them regularly

Give it to Bob having had a recent hernia repair 👍

 

[<Tommy>]

Andy putting in an early bid to be named CC’s No.1 planker

I can see some stiff competition though…

 

[Ming the Merciless]

20 mins of low cadence big gear tempo today. About half the usual as in a recovery week. Managed to find a window between rain. This was swapped with VO2 max work (always done in turbo) which I’ll now do tomorrow, when it’s due to tip it down all day.

 

[Norry1]

Roy had me doing the Turbo Threshold Building workout again at the same intensity as last time.

Have to say I found it a fair bit easier (or rather, less hard) than last time.

 

[HLaB]

Its been a good week of training for me. On Monday I got the boost that a new FTP had been detected. The training package subsequently adapted to place a Sweet Spot workout in my calendar for Tuesday night and it a actually felt sweet.

Wednesday night was the chain gang and not surprisingly only 2 other people turned up with the hail storms and knew of them blew up and had to sit on the back and we had to lower the pace a few times so it was a pretty comfortable workout for me an IF of just 0.68 for the chaingang.

Tonight was a bookended under and over session.

Tomorrow will be an 30min session a so called opener before a hilly TT on Saturday.

 

[Norry1]

Its been a good week of training for me. On Monday I got the boost that a new FTP had been detected. The training package subsequently adapted to place a Sweet Spot workout in my calendar for Tuesday night and it a actually felt sweet.
View attachment 685485
Wednesday night was the chain gang and not surprisingly only 2 other people turned up with the hail storms and knew of them blew up and had to sit on the back and we had to lower the pace a few times so it was a pretty comfortable workout for me an IF of just 0.68 for the chaingang.
View attachment 685486

View attachment 685487

Tonight was a bookended under and over session.
View attachment 685488
Tomorrow will be an 30min session a so called opener before a hilly TT on Saturday.

Solid week and congrats on the FTP boost - always feels good.

Over/Unders are nasty I find!

How do you find Adaptive Training on TR?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

VO2 max work completed on Wed , an hour of Z2 yesterday, got some longer tempo intervals lined up today, but freely chosen cadence and gears not low cadence big gear work. I’ll do the tempo outdoors as got a suitable low traffic no junction section of lane to do it on. I’ve then got a 3 hour Z2 and some threshold planned over weekend. Threshold likely tomorrow and then I’ll finish off the week with the longer Z2.

 

[bobinski]

3 comfortable workouts for me this week. All just tickling the legs a bit. I am finding I need to raise the bias on Zwift workouts which feel generally easier than SYSTM workouts. A case in point below. 2 long rides planned over weekend inc , perhaps, Ventop or Alp D’zwift at tempo.

 

[BurningLegs]

On a bit of a whim I bought a pair of trail running shoes and a running belt early this week. Started the Cto5k programme yesterday on week three (suggested by the app I downloaded based on my responses to a few questions about by fitness/activity levels).

Did my first run yesterday - only 16 mins of effort, with half of that running and half of it rest. Sounds pretty light and didn’t feel challenging.

Oh my god my legs are a MESS today. Totally wrecked. Hobbling up the stairs, can feel the strain of getting in and out of chairs. I feel like an old man! I don’t get this from any cycling workout or event anymore, but I remember it when first starting out. I’m enjoying it!

Looking forward to the next run, but only planning to do two per week 🙂

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Tempo session went well, but encountered the April showers. Just under 2.5 hour outing.