Official Tour Of Sufferlandria Thread (Page 6)

and now we are past the half way mark so we HAVE to finish

On Saturday I moved my trainer into our living room to do "Hell hath no fury".  I made the mistake of forgetting to get one of my big fans.  I sent one of my minions kids to go get the fan and he attempted to argue.  Big mistake.  I couldn't do much more than grunt.  I was nearly in tears.

Ouch.  Just finished stage 6.  If you think Alp de Huez is bad, wait until you're halfway through Long Scream.  I've been holding to 90% through most of these rides, and really started to fade in Long Scream.

Had a good finish, so maybe it was mental.  That was a long ride.

Stage 6 complete! Started the suffering before work today at 5:30 AM. People who joined me in the gym around 6:30 must of thought i was a absolute nuttered working that hard in the morning. I was dripping. The Wretched was seriously tough, its fair to say im not the best climber in the work. Even The Long Scream was destroying me and I much prefer the TT style videos. I did gain my PHD in suffering though from the University of Sufferlandria which made everything seem (almost) work it. Hope everyone has as much fun with this as i did :/

Mommy.

I kept it at 100% and decided to just push for it. I went in knowing I'd need to keep the cadence high, as I've got zero mashing left in my quads. I averaged 93 cadence for both workouts.

I felt as though I came away from the Wretched having managed it very well. The Scream was going along fairly well until I had about 15 minutes left. From 10 minutes on, it was an absolute grind and I faded pretty bad.

The Wretched:
Target Power = 198
AVG Power = 196
N Power = 207

The Long Scream:
Target Power = 212
AVG Power = 203
N Power = 209

I'm calling it done. 2/3 of the way there.

 

Done with Stage 6:

Wretched:  Did at 95% and I actually felt good throughout

NP: 255 IF: 0.90

Long Scream: Basically went for broke on this and buried myself in the last few minutes, definitely worth it though.  I actually liked this ride better than any other one, probably just cause its a straight TT, I guess all those 2x20s are paying off.

NP: 275IF: 0.97

Done with Stage 6....now to worry about Stage 8!!

I did both rides @ 95% and hit my targets on all of the intervals, but definitely not without some suffering!  By the time I was mid-way through The Long Scream, I started worrying that if I actually dropped my power in those couple second "rest" intervals, that I might not actually be able to force myself to come back!  My legs were burning....it became a mental challenge to keep it up when I really wanted to stop.

Only a few days left to go!  Hope everyone's hanging in there  

I'm coming off my rest day to do stage 6 and 7. I'm going to try to do all three work outs today so I can take another recovery day before stage 8.

How well have you been hitting the harder sections? I primarily look at what I'm doing there as opposed to the overall as those values will be more meaningful in these workouts. For this particular quote, I do understand what you're doing in looking at all of them together, but have seen this come up for individual without mention of being able to hit the hard parts. Especially for the upcoming ones, the overall average will have less meaning (not to be confused with zero meaning).

ETA: And for hitting some of these, you have to learn how to feel it. I'll vary some, but do tend to be higher up in cadence yet still within what I'm comfortable with. It might move some as I progress through the workout.

Luckily I read this before I started Day 6 and approached The Wretched just like you did and was able to spin it out at 100%.

When I hit The Long Scream though I faded quick.  About 7 minutes in I felt it and by 15 I had to dial it down to 90% and even then I barely hung on.

Glad this one is over...