SBR Utopia ---- Permanently OPEN!! (Page 4)

This side of the lake too. 44F on Saturday, then falling continuously to this morning. It's -3F right now. Not sure just how low it went as the sun has been up for a few hours. Road conditions are about the same. Maybe I should go for a run?

Just finished up a 1200+ TSS week on the bike, and I'll probably get really close to 4000 for the month of December.  Legs are feeling it right now, but the next 5 days are focused on just easy spinning.  20' test next weekend.

When was that?

Just for the record, you didn't fool anyone (i.e., me) with the username change back when I'd recognize those calves anywhere!

And for the rest of you rabble-rousin' tri-lovin' Utopes ... I just missed you too much to stay away. And Fred called me out in Tri Talk

It is insanely (in a good way, for a change) busy in my life and I now live between THREE different cities (Bali island, Jakarta, and Perth) just to keep it fun. Really happy with the drop-in, floating format here ... and continue to desperately need youses wisdom. Triathlon went from two people (before I moved back to Indonesia) here, to ten (shortly after I moved back) to well over a THOUSAND now and still exploding (as are the number of endurance and multisport events). It's all so very dizzying and wonderful.

Yowser...thats BIG!  Nice work.   I need a much better bike seat to kick out that TSS!!

Holy crap, Jason!  That is crazy....and awesome!  Were you off for the week and able to put in a bunch of extra volume, or is this on par with the volume you could (not necessarily would) put in during a normal week?

I've been away from home, visiting family in LA, for the week.  I've only been running for the past week, which has been a nice break from biking and swimming, but I sure am missing my bike!  May even get on for an easy spin tomorrow when I get home.  I seriously contemplated getting on the trainer at 11pm tomorrow night and then riding into the new year....we'll see!

1200+ TSS in a week....  riding the trainer at 11PM into the New Year....   I think we are reaching new levels of craziness here.  

Yanti, that's incredible growth, congrats for getting that going!  Simply amazing!

Commuting to work everyday helps pile up the TSS.  I did take 4 days off this month (use it or lose it vacation) to ride, but other than that one crazy 123 mile ride, most of my long rides were in the 50-65 mile range.

Riding on the trainer into the new year...now that's silly.

Just got done with 20' bike test. 

Improvement of 11W in 4 weeks. 271W to 282W today.  I just came off a recovery week of really low volume and legs felt great.  I dont think I can credit the Maker's Mark and Christmas cookies to that improvement.

If I can get 10W of improvement each month until April and then bring my run volume back up I will be very happy.

Congrats on the +11W!

I've got a re-test scheduled for Jan 9. I'm curious to see what my improvement will be! I've been training hard for a stretch goal of a sub-2:35 Oly in March. It's still months away and it already feels like crunch-time.

Nice job.  I'm hoping to see about 10 watts improvement from 6 weeks ago.  As part of my recovery, I small chain ringed it all the way to work.  Somewhere around 25 TSS points in 1:10...LOL.

Nice going with that total! It's amazing how fast you can rack things up when finding a nice range to work in, as opposed to looking for the biggest possible. Many of my rides tend to be in the 40-55 mile range as they're decent size and I can push well in them. They're also not too hard to repeat in the sense of at least several times a week and also from week to week. 

James, I assume by "II" you mean the second (first one in from the big toe)?  When I had my x rays the doc said my second metatarsal and meta-head were larger than the others, when they should be the same, indicating a high load.  I also am just generally tight in the feet, and my toes at rest stick up nearly straight to vertical,so also looking at a flatter toe box... 

thanks

Nice work!  I'll likely be testing next week - haven't done one since the spring.  I'm hoping for some sort of improvement, just not sure how much.  Recent numbers in training suggest it should be up.  Tomorrow's workout should be a good indicator I think.

I stopped to help a guy push his car out of a snowbank on the way home today.  It's amazing how I can regularly train 10+ hours/week and that 20 seconds that I spent lifting up the front of his car and pushing back has left my traps and up the back of my neck in a state of paralysis (that might be a slight exaggeration...).

/whine

that's better than a kona humblebrag....

It was only a compact

coming soon to a training plan near you - Hyundai Elantra deadlifts.

Know what you mean. I've come back from a swim and a neighbor was stuck in the driveway. Shared townhouse section, so no choice but to help move her. No clue how to rock the vehicle either. I tried explaining, but she was just lost on it. I should get a reinforced bumper to push people. Felt ok right after, but was rather sore later.

For the power Utopians.  

When you are going to do a 20 min test, do you set a target power that you think you can hold and if so what do you base it on?  Looking back at my previous tests last winter it seems that what I was doing in something like 5 x 5 in the weeks prior, I could do the 20 min test at 5-10w above that.  Any other indicators I might look at?

Trying to wrap my head around what to shoot for next week.

Which is what happened to me last time and what I'd like to avoid.  

Well done!