Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
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Rather you than me. I love riding in the snow when there’s grippy snow on the roads and the sun’s shining; not so much when there’s ice and freezing fog.
Cycling Workouts: Discussion/Encouragement/Sharing/Banter
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Rather you than me. I love riding in the snow when there’s grippy snow on the roads and the sun’s shining; not so much when there’s ice and freezing fog.
nagden
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Hats off to you. That is dedication.
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
This morning was the first time I've done any of the Zwift 'Unicorn' workouts. Most of them are very long (1hr30m+), but the Lavendar (sic) Unicorn is a half-hour job. I was expecting to find it relatively benign, but it's got an 18-minute block of Z3 with 90s spikes of Z5/6 thrown in, which made it actually pretty tough. Jo was doing 20 minutes on the treadmill beside me 
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
The threshold workout Red Slate-4 was in my Trainer Road training plan today. I dint quite have the cadence edge today though, whether its because I’m a bit tired, my bananas were too green (so I had an Aldi version of a nutella bake which was too dry) or as it was raining I done the workout with the front door closed and it was 18.2deg C average. Probably a combination of all 3 tbh
I’ll probably need a new HR strap soon it doesnt look like the monitor kicked in correctly until towards the end of the first block
Edit I must have forgot to click Reply after typing Tuesday's VO2 max session but it was more 'Spinny' in 15deg C ave with the front door ajar, even after a wee bit of a harder warm up than I originally planned. Too much Z3 HR (and occasionally Z4 HR) on my 31mile round commute. Especially as on Tuesday night when I got of the train it was
and I felt I had to go fast to keep warm. I don’t know if it was psychological but it was hard to get going on Tuesday (or perhaps I just needed to get some carbs into my system) as I seemed to finish off better than I started. Although my legs are feeling it after
I’ll probably need a new HR strap soon it doesnt look like the monitor kicked in correctly until towards the end of the first block
Edit I must have forgot to click Reply after typing Tuesday's VO2 max session but it was more 'Spinny' in 15deg C ave with the front door ajar, even after a wee bit of a harder warm up than I originally planned. Too much Z3 HR (and occasionally Z4 HR) on my 31mile round commute. Especially as on Tuesday night when I got of the train it was
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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Strength endurance immediately followed by a threshold session today. Threshold was meant to be tomorrow but wanted to free the day up.
Occasionally I record the latter intervals in a hard workout - to give me more accountability and motivation. Here is one such example from yesterday.
View: https://youtu.be/S0ObjIbh8z4
View: https://youtu.be/S0ObjIbh8z4
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I had an endurance workout (Harrah) in my Masters Plan tonight and chose to my commute again. Lol its all change again weatherwise and was a mild 10/9 deg C so I stopped for a pic/vid of one of the houses in a village (it had been too cold previously).
View: https://youtu.be/v40FPXXnFjU
Lol, in the office my colleagues were talking about a famous cat who likes to sit on the train gates/barriers at the station, and I said in 3 years I hadn’t saw it. Guess who I saw tonight
Not really a workout but that was followed by a 4.4mile ride to the house and I was greeted by my Christmas Decoration delivery, so I duly put them up
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View: https://youtu.be/v40FPXXnFjU
Lol, in the office my colleagues were talking about a famous cat who likes to sit on the train gates/barriers at the station, and I said in 3 years I hadn’t saw it. Guess who I saw tonight
Not really a workout but that was followed by a 4.4mile ride to the house and I was greeted by my Christmas Decoration delivery, so I duly put them up
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Decided to go on road today and loaded up a TR outside workout (Electra). Electra is a manageable Tempo workout I quite like for passing time. I was also using my winter bike with no PM so it was done on RPE/HR I made my way down to near the Holly Lodge Cafe but I made the mistake of pressing lap when I didn’t need to so I ended up with one 10 minute tempo interval short. So I did it after the cool down. Towards the end of that I realised I was near an OS tile that I needed to bag so I diverted down a steep lane which was a wee bit flooded at the bottom and the timer page had no %HR max so it looks like I dropped out of the Tempo HR zone. After I bagged the tile I loaded Electra again so I could do it right. I did stop briefly for coffee and cake after the 2nd 10min interval. I made it a quick one as it was forecasted to turn wet.
After Electra was finished I decided to do some 60/60s at tempo to make sure I beat the rain. I did just
https://youtube.com/shorts/YR-14gJMcpw
After Electra was finished I decided to do some 60/60s at tempo to make sure I beat the rain. I did just
https://youtube.com/shorts/YR-14gJMcpw
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
A VO2 max workout today, four hill repeats of 4 minutes each. Roads are wet and flood other side of hill when I rolled down at the end.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I had a VO2max workout in my calendar tonight (South Twin) and if Intervals/ Strava Sauce are right I just about emptied the tank W’ wise although I didn’t quite average the 125% for the 2min intervals targeted. I marked it as ‘All Out’ in TrainerRoad's post ride survey as there was a lot of standing up. That got me a further struggle survey and its been a long day after an early start so I put it down to sleep.
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Strength endurance today. Light rain and 3C but only out for 40 mins or so
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I had a Under/ Over Threshold workout in my TrainerRoad calendar tonight (Ritter -4). After the sprint at the end of the first 15 mins block according to intervals I had just about emptied the tank again (W’ wise). But although I felt close to that, I think there was a wee bit more and certainly not the completely drained and in debt state like @Legs 💪. I concentrated on upping the cadence in the 2nd block (9 mins) which saw me drop out of the threshold zone slightly until I got up to rpm
I did the workout again with the front door open and that got the background temperature down to 11/12 deg C, which was a good thing because I forgot my head band
I did the workout again with the front door open and that got the background temperature down to 11/12 deg C, which was a good thing because I forgot my head band
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
My Workout today was an Endurance/ recovery one and as I’ve done quite a few times I did it on my commute. Although given there’s a lot of flooding I stuck to main roads and drifted out of the Endurance HR zone a few times. I averaged roughly where I wanted to be 59% Max HR but I drifted up to 75% max HR. Probably up the fast and busy main road into Knebworth
