Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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Completed two hours of tempo today before the rain blew in.
Cycling Workouts: Discussion/Encouragement/Sharing/Banter
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
A hour VO2max session on Wednesday and a 45min threshold session for me yesterday (Thursday) lunchtime. I had wanted to do two 45mins workouts but TR only suggested VO2max sessions with 2min intervals and couldn't face that so I stuck with the hour. I changed it though for a bookended anaerobic to VO2max session rather than 3 anaerobic blocks.
Attachments
Managed to get my workout done today before setting off to the in-laws.
One of my regular workouts - coach has progressed the wattage and durations regularly.
Last 2 efforts below
View: https://youtu.be/LssZMPi2sww
One of my regular workouts - coach has progressed the wattage and durations regularly.
Last 2 efforts below
View: https://youtu.be/LssZMPi2sww
Had a tough one today. If you want to see me "fail" a workout, look below. Last 12 mins of "The Big One".
View: https://youtu.be/YAz1PcTdAAc
View: https://youtu.be/YAz1PcTdAAc
Just spotted this feature on TPV.
If you set it up right, TPV will record power from your Turbo and also another connected powermeter - in my case Powertap Pedals. The .Fit files keep both sets of data.
If you drag and drop the .Fit file onto the Dual Record feature in the TPV Hub - it does the analysis below. This is the chart for the workout I talked about above. It shows my Powermeter was about 4-5W higher than the Turbo.
If you set it up right, TPV will record power from your Turbo and also another connected powermeter - in my case Powertap Pedals. The .Fit files keep both sets of data.
If you drag and drop the .Fit file onto the Dual Record feature in the TPV Hub - it does the analysis below. This is the chart for the workout I talked about above. It shows my Powermeter was about 4-5W higher than the Turbo.
Low Cadence, High Gear work yesterday
View: https://youtu.be/STeakI_C4uY
A good thing about recording these workouts is that my Coach can actually watch my performance at his leisure - I put the Youtube link in my post-workout comments in TrainingPeaks.
View: https://youtu.be/STeakI_C4uY
A good thing about recording these workouts is that my Coach can actually watch my performance at his leisure - I put the Youtube link in my post-workout comments in TrainingPeaks.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
First workout after a recovery week. I actually had one to do yesterday but after a long outdoors ride the day before TrainerRoad's oertraining algorithm (RLGL) adapted it a Threshold workout to a Recovery workout and I couldn’t be bothered setting up the trainer for that. Tonight’s was a decreasing SS workout.
Quick update on my training post-Tenerife “holiday” - back 4 weeks today! 😞
Post holiday lurgy
After a solid 8 days of cycling training in Tenerife (mix of 90min workouts / steady endurance spins) I took a bit ill on the last 2 days of the holiday - whilst fit to cycle one of those days I hadn’t got the oooommph to do anything above Z2 without getting out of breath. I put it down to a bit of usual holiday lurgy (We stayed in a private apartment so it wasn’t a case of picking up something nasty at the all you can eat buffet).
Battle of the Bulge
The lurgy lasted almost a week - easily out of breath and generally lethargic feeling so I didn’t cycle much and when i tried it was a waste of time. Strangely my weight shot up which I’ve nevered encountered before and I was physically carrying a lot of weight especially round the waist which I now put down to water retention.
Getting back on track
Been feeling better now for 3 weeks, and with the weight scare I’ve really concentrated on dropping weight as it was stubbornly higher than my ideal weight despite 8+ hours a week of cycling and walking c.20 miles a week. So in the 3 weeks I’m getting down close to or even just under the ideal - I’m going to preserve with the diet for another week to see where I am, then revert to a more normal diet. Graph below shows the last 12 months with the huge spike post-holiday.
Training - typically c. 8 hours per week but I have definitely noticed a drop off in power which I put down to the diet which I know isn’t ideal but I reckon I get the weight down to where I want then return to a more normal diet with higher carbs intake). For instance I could easily hold 310w for 20 mins in January but yesterday I struggle to do 290w for 10mins!
The diet plan
Breakfast - eggs for breakfast (i normally ate a 38g portion of porridge)
Mid morning - banana and apple (sometime I would have had a few biscuits or a sandwich)
Lunch - small/moderate portion of rice and a protein (chicken/tuna)
Evening meal - regular meal
Cut out the post evening biscuit(s) and supper (cereal)
Also completely cut out alcohol - previously i would have treated myself to a mid week glass of wine or tin of beer, Thursday or Friday-eve glass of wine, Friday and Saturday- couple of beers). I’ll treat myself once or twice a week with a drink going forward but stay away from the beer.
Post holiday lurgy
After a solid 8 days of cycling training in Tenerife (mix of 90min workouts / steady endurance spins) I took a bit ill on the last 2 days of the holiday - whilst fit to cycle one of those days I hadn’t got the oooommph to do anything above Z2 without getting out of breath. I put it down to a bit of usual holiday lurgy (We stayed in a private apartment so it wasn’t a case of picking up something nasty at the all you can eat buffet).
Battle of the Bulge
The lurgy lasted almost a week - easily out of breath and generally lethargic feeling so I didn’t cycle much and when i tried it was a waste of time. Strangely my weight shot up which I’ve nevered encountered before and I was physically carrying a lot of weight especially round the waist which I now put down to water retention.
Getting back on track
Been feeling better now for 3 weeks, and with the weight scare I’ve really concentrated on dropping weight as it was stubbornly higher than my ideal weight despite 8+ hours a week of cycling and walking c.20 miles a week. So in the 3 weeks I’m getting down close to or even just under the ideal - I’m going to preserve with the diet for another week to see where I am, then revert to a more normal diet. Graph below shows the last 12 months with the huge spike post-holiday.
Training - typically c. 8 hours per week but I have definitely noticed a drop off in power which I put down to the diet which I know isn’t ideal but I reckon I get the weight down to where I want then return to a more normal diet with higher carbs intake). For instance I could easily hold 310w for 20 mins in January but yesterday I struggle to do 290w for 10mins!
The diet plan
Breakfast - eggs for breakfast (i normally ate a 38g portion of porridge)
Mid morning - banana and apple (sometime I would have had a few biscuits or a sandwich)
Lunch - small/moderate portion of rice and a protein (chicken/tuna)
Evening meal - regular meal
Cut out the post evening biscuit(s) and supper (cereal)
Also completely cut out alcohol - previously i would have treated myself to a mid week glass of wine or tin of beer, Thursday or Friday-eve glass of wine, Friday and Saturday- couple of beers). I’ll treat myself once or twice a week with a drink going forward but stay away from the beer.
Blimey, that weight spike was a bit extreme. I tend to put on a kilo or so when I go abroad even with all the cycling I do there but 5-6kg is a lot!
It is a conundrum how to deal with diet when training hard. I'm in the "see where my weight settles" and eat well but as much as I want. My problem is I enjoy a couple of pints and that really doesn't help the weight.
Hope you settle out soon
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
That lurgy going around is horrible. I got it on my last commute before Christmas and instead of being fully active quite a few times I gave into the weather excuse!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Threshold today. Strava gave me a PB for the hill Im using for the repeats.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Taftan was in my calendar tonight, a mixture of SS, Threshold and VO2max stuff. I did the workout mostly in ERG but for some reason in the first VO2max intervals at a high cadence resistance dropped out and I to toggle to resistance mode until it settled out. Lol in the last VO2max interval I had to toggle to resistance mode again but this time it was to avoid the ‘spiral of death’ 
Taftan was in my calendar tonight, a mixture of SS, Threshold and VO2max stuff. I did the workout mostly in ERG but for some reason in the first VO2max intervals at a high cadence resistance dropped out and I to toggle to resistance mode until it settled out. Lol in the last VO2max interval I had to toggle to resistance mode again but this time it was to avoid the ‘spiral of death’
TPV has a great feature in it which avoids the Spiral of Death if you select it as a Setting.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I did the TrainerRoad workout Mount Field in my lunch hour today. TR is classing it a low level SS workout but I'd say it more of a Tempo workout.
