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Are you as low as me now? LOLMy FTP has taken a massive hit downwards with Aussie holiday. 20% down
Onward and hopefully up
Probably lower!
I knew I was way down, just needed test to prove it. Training plan starts in earnest
I was watching it live but didn't see you. You should have worn red speedos like those blokes yesterday.
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Carl, I am now riding at 6 so will see you there. Anyone else?
Brusgaard
Über Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
If it's the Tour of Innsbruck S1, I signed up for that.
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Sod that
Went too hard and bailed at the second climb.
New ftp and faster up the climb but would rather have held back and continued.
Went too hard and bailed at the second climb.
New ftp and faster up the climb but would rather have held back and continued.
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bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
Come on you younger faster guys
Brendan Parker
Veteran
- Location
- essex, england
Well that was eventful. 10mins into tour of Innsbruck and the kids flick the power off in man cave. 
So went back on and thought I have an easy one and went up anyway.
2 rides today and I’m done
On another note any tips on general maintanence on the kickr seems to be getting sweat dripping on slightly and don’t want to rot the thing??
Cheers
So went back on and thought I have an easy one and went up anyway.
2 rides today and I’m done
On another note any tips on general maintanence on the kickr seems to be getting sweat dripping on slightly and don’t want to rot the thing??
Cheers
darrensmith0410
Senior Member
- Location
- Powys, Mid Wales
Come on you younger faster guys
Haven’t had a chance to race up it yet!
Realised I couldn't make one of the stages so decided not to do any - shame they are only running each stage over one day with no re-runs. Hey ho, did ZA #8 instead.
bobinski
Legendary Member
- Location
- Tulse Hill
I saw.
Consider yourself lucky. Stage 1 has the Insbruck climb as a WARM UP! I hadn’t read the details properly so didn’t realise. When the climb started again and C cat riders were holding 4w I am afraid I couldn’t be bothered. Well that’s my excuse
ZA#4 on Sat. First one with the "free ride" section to encourage you to hit the best you can over the interval. 25s in this case. The comments prior to the interval indicated this should be >2X your FTP. I was pretty sure this was low and I'd already cranked up the bias to 110% for the practice intervals. Based on data in GoldenCheetah I figured I could "easily" break 2.5X FTP, or around 600W. I hit 676, just a hair shy of 3X my FTP the first effort, and 633, 2.75X FTP on the second effort.
Did my final group ride Monday. Nothing much to report other than the leader went out like a bat out of hell and it was a huge effort at the start for everyone to catch up. Quite annoying. Once caught we stayed in the 2.0-2.5 w/kg range, but I was ready to bail and likely would have if we hadn't settled in.
ZA#5 today. It's a lot like ZA#4, but with adjustments for the target interval being 1 minute. Figured my magic number was around 400W, or 1.75X ftp. Uncorked 441W on the first effort and 421W on the second effort. Well short of my all time best 1M effort of 589W, but still good efforts. FWIW that 589W effort was in one of the races over on bkool a couple years ago.
Resting Wed. Going to focus on the workouts. Probably won't do the races until the last week.
Did my final group ride Monday. Nothing much to report other than the leader went out like a bat out of hell and it was a huge effort at the start for everyone to catch up. Quite annoying. Once caught we stayed in the 2.0-2.5 w/kg range, but I was ready to bail and likely would have if we hadn't settled in.
ZA#5 today. It's a lot like ZA#4, but with adjustments for the target interval being 1 minute. Figured my magic number was around 400W, or 1.75X ftp. Uncorked 441W on the first effort and 421W on the second effort. Well short of my all time best 1M effort of 589W, but still good efforts. FWIW that 589W effort was in one of the races over on bkool a couple years ago.
Resting Wed. Going to focus on the workouts. Probably won't do the races until the last week.
If you're setting the effort to 110% you probably need to change your ftp value for the sessions. I did an ftp test before these workouts to get a more accurate figure, and I'm having to knock my % down on some of these workouts, rarely upwards! Saying that, za#8 last night was one of the easiest of all the ones so far.
My ftp is set ro 243 for what it's worth
