Increase your Cycling Power over the winter = Faster times on 2009 (Page 23)

With intervals it sometimes feels during the first one that I will not be able to finish them all.  Once I get to the later intervals I seem to find the energy to pull them off.  Similar effect with swimming -  the first 500 metres feels really hard and after that I can go for a long time without feeling the muscle fatigue.

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That's the thing--by the last interval, I felt like I could keep going. It was just getting over the initial "I'm gonna puke and I'm only going 7 mph on a trainer in my living room" freak out. After that, I actually felt good about the workout. It just freaked me out a little. 

So is Jorge back to post the next set of fun yet? 

I'm sad there are no workouts I have hit every workout even if I had to switch it up to fit the schedule. I have looked forward to these workouts...it's the only thing that got me on my trainer.

Hope you're doing ok Jorge.

I'm sure Jorge will be posting the workouts at some point today.  I tried to get up this morning and do a ride on my own, but it just didn't happen.  I guess I've really come to depend on these to keep me motivated and stay on the bike.

Something tells me I won't be thinking so kindly about these once the intensity gets knocked up a couple of notches.

sorry peeps! Just flew back to the US yesterday and I ended up having to catch up with a nuch of stuff. I will upload the workouts as soon as possible and catching on questions!

Glad you are back safely Jorge! Looking forward to checking on the plan later tonight.

Ok people sorry for the delay, week 8 is up!

This next 3 weeks will focus on the very top end speed (VO2max) hence the intervals will be shorter but much harder. You will notice as you do more of those This will allow you to create a 'bigger' room for you power to grow once we focus exclusively on Threshold sessions.

Evening all

I was sick a few weeks back and thought I was over it.  Well I got home from work around 2:30 am on the Decemebr 22 after closing the prodcution line down in the plant.  I had a fever of 104 and was not doing to well, Tylenol and off to bed, thinking I would sleep it off.  I missed Christmas eve and Christmas day, in bed.  On Friday after Christmas my wife drove me to the Doctors.  She teold me I had Pnumonia and a couple of shots and a few script's later sent me home and to bed.

This Monday came and I was still to sick to go to work, back to the Doc's, more meds.  Today I am finally up and getting bored and complaining.  The wife says my complaining is a good sign!. 

So back to work on Thursday and hopefully back on the bike.  These past two weeks have kicked my down to nothing and I will probabley have to start all over.  Ok done moaning now.

Joe

I am so sorry to hear that! But you, know, I am glad to hear that you are on the path to recovery. Hope things come back fairly quickly. Hang in there.  

Mirjam and Joe, good to hear you are back to normal (or almost). It seems many of us were sick battered at some point but as long as we get back on the saddle and catch up with the training let's keep moving to have a kick azz 2009!

Finished week 8#1...ooooouuuuuch! I don't remember the last time my legs "burned" that good! also never knew a minute could take so long!

Good to have ya back Jorge and thanks again for kickin my butt!

Amen to that!  I hope I can do my 3 mile run tomorrow!

as long as your legs hurt/burn you are around the right intensity

Not sure why, but the Q1 session wasn't too bad this week.  The 1min intervals hurt, but I knew they would end quickly, and afterwards the lower intensity sets just seemed really easy.  I posted this comment before, and I think Gregkl's comment reaffirms it.  Unless you're really in tune with RPE, the HR group is going to work harder than the Power group as they try to hit their HR numbers during the short sets, while the power group only looks at watts - HR being more of an afterthought.

my HR monitor decided not to read properly today--so I only had a good reading until about the end of the warmup. I went with RPE and a few hit and miss manual checks during the longer intervals. I feel like I went hard enough--the one minute intervals ended just in time, and I felt good and got the HR where it should be on the long intervals. i do think I'll be a little sore, though. 

Thanks again for doing this, Jorge. I soooo appreciate it.