Official Tour Of Sufferlandria Thread (Page 3)

Finished Stage 3 this morning.  Seriously, Extra Shot with no warm-up (and at 4am) is just cruel.  Felt good cardio-wise, but my legs were feeling it.  Here's to hoping they find a little something before tomorrow's stage

I read it as "Extra Shot + Fight Club" or "Extra Shot + Fight Club Remastered".  The original and remastered versions don't look terribly different from one another, so I'm assuming that's what they were going for.

Good point.  I read it as either/or, but I was thinking the same thing that you can't skip a ride like that.  I wasn't thinking in terms of videos, if someone purchased the remastered FC then it's fine to do it with ES.

I think the double ride in stage 3 will drop a lot of people too.  I'm definitely feeling it this morning although I won't ride until 7 tonight.

Yea, it's higher than I thought.  I had signed up before I found out I couldn't do the whole thing.  So I'm sure there are some people that could handle it (me) but it's just not fitting into the training schedule.

Stage 3 cut a little short. I have been having some minor issues with my chain this week. It decided to blow-up on Fight Club. I was 12 minutes into it when it snapped.

Time to get a replacement and repeat the suffering tonight.

I plan to do it all again. What is really brutal is I am not off to Army PT, work, Masters Swim tonight (3k or so), then Stage 3 again. I might skip Masters tonight.

I am anticipating a pretty big jump in mine cause I did my test with no bike legs what so ever.  This is pretty much my re-introduction to my bike after a long time off it.  And trust me, can I ever tell while doing stage 3.  I had to talk myself into not quitting

According to the TrainerRoad FB page the two video days do not need to be back to back just done during the "day" time limit.

Going to break them up or keep going B2B? I think I will probably keep them back to back maybe with a bit of rest in between. (So I can refill water bottles and change bib shorts.)

Blah, FB conversations clearly said they had to be back to back.  Lame

I got my trainer back right around Thanksgiving and it was the first I had ridden since the summer really.  Bombed my first FTP test because of pacing, so I took that as a hint to start slow and work my way up.  I worked through December, constantly raising it by 10 or so when I thought I need more of a challenge.  Re-tested 12/29 and got back up around 200 and evened it off at 200 before the Tour.  3 days ago I got a new bike and I did a short test ride and it just felt like butter, so I raised it another 5 before the start of the tour knowing that I'd be in a world of hurt anyway.  Maybe it's the bike or the time on the bike but I feel like after this 9 days if I do another test (3rd total, so I have the pacing down) I could be up another 15-20, so roughly 10%.

I'm also optimistically hoping that my FTP will get pushed up 10+ points from this.  I'll probably retest the following weekend as well when my legs will hopefully be back to normal. If anything I think the workouts throughout this Tour will certainly help with mental toughness needed for that 20 min test.

I have my TR FTP set at 285 currently but I've slowly been adding 5 watts to it every other week or so when the workouts start to feel too easy, I just couldn't really stomach the thought of doing another test for awhile.  I got a Continental trainer tire in November and re-tested my FTP at 315 which I was pumped about.  Then a few weeks later after reading some things, I attempted another test except tightening the back wheel down 5 full turns on my KK and I got a serous reality check and the FTP was dropped down to 270.  After that second test I told myself I'd take some time before attempting that again.