Beer Drinkers' Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2020 Version - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 5)

This makes me giggle!

Goals for this week:

1. No pop till Friday

2. Next training ride for my charity ride (did I mention I'm doing a charity ride in March?!?); need to plan either a 7.5, 8 or 10 mile route (eek so short in comparison with most of you guys *blushes*). 

3. At least two arm workouts, and try and get through the first full set of the dancer's sweaty workout: Day 1 of 10 day YourBody Challenge - YouTube

Yay! Well done!

Kick sets = evil!

I managed five minutes of the dancer lady's workout and my arm workout - 30 reps of tricep extensions (2kg weight) and 35 of bicep curls (3kg weight) so fairly light to start but maxed out on both. Ashlyn Harris has recently replaced Michelle Obama as my arm porn hero hence the workouts and the new avatar!

Plotted my 8 mile route for Wednesday afternoon's ride and just got one more arm/dancer lady workout to fit in (hoping to manage two lots of five this time round, or at least some of the second lot...)

How everybody else getting on?

Hey, all.  Welcome back, Andrew!  So weird to hear about summer break (though it was 70 degrees here Saturday, which made for some weird weather at the football game).

I've been hitting my targets and doing a good job of jostling around my schedule.  Yesterday was a 90' sweet spot ride on the trainer (which is an awesome workout, by the way), then did a whole bunch of stuff at the gym this morning as I'm starting to approach the peak of the strength training part of my plan through the beginning of February.  Tour of Sufferlandria starts up in a couple of weeks so I'll be doing a crash week, essentially doubling my normal weekly TSS and then recover for a few days.  We have to travel at the end of it so I'll won't be able to finish on time but I think I'll still kill myself on the bike just fine. 

Another 90 minutes tomorrow doing sweet spot repeats - big focus on "muscular endurance" this month.

Don't worry, I drank for you.  The walk back to the hotel was so sad, thousands of people walking totally silent.

I sleep in compression socks (low level, like 8 -15 mmHg) about 1/2 the time, but nothing that powerful like a compression boot or leg sleeve.  I also have CVI in my legs (chronic vein insufficiency) and I wear them (15 - 20s and some 20 - 30s when I fly) during the winter months and occasionally during the summer months.  Interestingly, I really don't like them when riding or running - only for recovery or lower effort like hiking.  Maybe my sport ones are too tight (I think the CEPs I use are on the higher end).

Oh, and ramp tests usually don't go well if you haven't been training specifically for them (and they suck, so there's that).  If you're not training up in Z5 regularly, then as soon as you get there you're done.  If you've done a mix of training zones with some serious VO2 max work, the test is more accurate and you'll be better at it.  I bet if you try it again in a week you'll do better.  I like the Coggan 5 min/20 min test protocol better, though that has more of a recovery cost.  I always flunk my Sufferfest "4DP" test, 'cause that REALLY sucks.