Thursday
I was getting ready to ride but then I got a call from Jacks school, apparently he was being a little shit so I had to go pick him up and make him sit in solitary confinement until I picked up #2. Eventually he got bored and crashed on the couch, for 90 minutes.
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Tough day.
That means I did my workout on Zwiftopia after crushing almost two full pies of flatbread pizza, which almost came up towards the end.
Whats wrong with my scoot seat?
Yes, I do wear a full face, seems to be the most responsible thing to do. That bike screamed 90s, so now it looks a little more modern, dont ya think? I wanted to get a different style seat that also had the little cafe racer hump in the back, which I still might do, but was too antsy to get it going and that one fell in my lap.
That Time Crunched Plan, or two
Kevy isn't too far off with that time crunched plan, and it worked for me last year. Granted I didn't do any 100 mile races, most of them were 60-70 miles, It took me where I wanted to go. I also didn't do the extra volume on the weekends, since I knew my races wouldn't go over 3-4 hours. Some weekends it did call for 5 hours Saturday, 3 hours Sunday, but I kind of just whiffed it. Actually, last year, I only rode over 10 hours a week twice.
I know it doesn't make sense from the outside. In the beginning, its always just "RIDE MORE RIDE MORE" and it works. And its fun. At some point, in my findings of cycling fitness, just throwing hours/miles at your legs only gets you so far. When you know, you know. I recall being able to throw in 10 hour weeks all damn month back in the day of JRAing or chasing people on the mountain bike. After having an actual coach and seeing how "simple" the work was, this kind of follows that mold. The whole "Less is More" and "Quality of Quantity" blah blah. Is it as fun as riding your way into shape? No, it's not fun. It's efficient though.
The book says you can do two of these "plans" a year. Right now I'm doing just the standard competitor plan, which is just relative fitness and should get me back up to speed to where I was. In May, I will start the endurance one.
Remember when
@Norm used to throw numbers at us all the time? Comparing fitness to last year, I did a "real deal" 20 minute test in May last year and did 311 watts; quick maths says that puts my FTP at 295. I did a 8 minute test this year, because I was not interested in doing 20 minutes, I was only able to hold 306 watts, which would put my FTP at 275. So maybe I didn't fall as far down the hole as I was.