SBR Utopia Season II - OPEN (Page 43)

Hay in the barn, hard work is done, etc etc....   just get to the start line healthy

Yesterday friend and I rode from Malibu to Santa Barbara, with a couple added climbs, and my wife was kind enough to drive SAG.   Short brick run.   Followed by Mac's FIsh & CHips on State Street.  Best lunch ever

Today was the annual pier to pier swim.  Part of a weeklong beach and surf festival.  Switched to the wetsuit division, no point in freezing my buns off.   5/99 AG (large group of Male 30-49), and 12/295 overall for wetsuits.   There's about 1100 overall swimmers.   There's a race report in the forums

Little breakfast with wife and friends, then about 2 went our for a 1:45 run.  12.41 miles, last long weekend done, in the books.  A little bit of tendonitis in the foot post run, but I could not run until race day ad be fine so I am not worried.

Coach has sent the next week and it's very pedestrian.  Very glad to have those long days behind me and to have gotten through for the most part uninjured.

Good to hear Michael! Glad to know you're still at it.

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Hey Michael, great to hear from you!  Looking forward to your journey to Coeur D'Alene!

This sounds like an awesome weekend in every way.  Wow.  Very nice:)

I doubt it's irrational.  Tell us why you're gonna PR by 6.  Let's hear the method to the madness.

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OK, Nicole and other TR folks. Two questions:

1) How often do you retest (a regular set interval of time no matter what), or is there some tell-tale sign that you should retest?

2) How do you let the TSS and IF numbers guide you, if at all?  Do you try to do a certain number of rides/week at certain numbers?

I did "Real Rides Race Day" this morning which had a lot of interval work right at and just above FTP (nice session, if you haven't done it already), and I am most definitely missing a gear that I would like on my trainer.  Frick.

Nice job on your swim, Chris. The fish and chips sound yummy.

Enjoy your taper.

I'm glad to see you and happy to hear that your family is settling into the new normal.

Don't use trainer road myself, but training with power is training with power regardless of it being virtual or actually measured.

I don't really test quite as formally as the others may do. I'll just readjust my FTP estimate based on how a couple rides are going, usually the 2 x 20 and the 1 x 20. And that's using both what I hit and how it felt to do so.

I also don't look at the IF for an entire ride so much as what I'll be doing when I'm working, as in what are the intervals being done at.

TSS is helpful in gauging the size of the workout in the sense of physiological cost. Much more useful than mileage or even time alone. The composition of the workout matters. Since intensity can be all over the place for various rides, it tends to give a better sense of size by taking in both the duration and intensity. I'll use it to get some sense of how big the individual rides are and how much I'm accumulating over time. Like how much week in, week out.

And also in being able to do something right afterward with higher intensity being harder, but farther out they seem to become more similar in recovery. So trying to go for a short run after higher intensity intervals (ie A Very Dark Place or Revolver) or a century ride are both kind of awful, but I'll recover sooner from the higher intensity ride with a TSS of 80 or so vs a century with near 300.

I think that until I get there, then the pile never seems as big as I wanted ...

Yeah, this time I've been lucky.  I've had a little issue come up in the last two weeks but I've only missed one prescribed workout in the last several months, a :45 run last week.  I may miss a couple runs in teh next couple weeks, or switch them to elliptical, but I honestly do not think I could have done any more for this race. 

Quit that, you are making me look bad...  

13th wedding anniversary for Tab and I today.  We got out for a 67 km ride that included stops for cinnamon buns, lunch, americanos and cookies.  A perfect way to spend the day (minus the flat tire).

That sounds like an awesome way to celebrate

I was always a very good student ..... 

BTW, forgot to mention I broke a rear spoke about 70 miles into my 90 miler Saturday.  A bit freaked out now that something like this would happen on race day when the wheel is covered....   Only worry about things you can control....

Happy 13th Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary Arend.

Going to be another relatively easy week for me as I try to freshen up the legs for the only cycling road race I'll do this year.  I won my division in this race last year in a bunch sprint, but my strategy this year is to either get into a small break, shred the field on the climbs, go solo, or blow up trying.  Keeping the rubber down takes priority over winning.

Thanks for the TSS and IF info Ben, Tom and Jason. 

I am really just starting to pay atention to these numbers and trying to figure out how to incorporate that info into my training. When I shake the magic 8 ball it says "All signs point to you needing to read the Skiba book".