Originally Posted by
Fat Boy
That's a pretty massive improvement. So are you still recovering from your appendix going kaboom?
Yep and yep. I think it would have gone faster if I'd have found a way to bump some serious volume for 8 weeks or so, but it's not high enough on the priority list. I was taking the 150K(?) miles I have in my legs, and how that's enabled me to race pretty well on 5-6 hours/week. The appendix rebooted a lot of that 2-decade base.
I do think I can bump volume for 3 weeks this winter, on the trainer, so I'll see if I can commit to waking up super early 3x/week to add to the lunch rides during my next base block.
I'm trying to decide now if I should pump out one more build block to take advantage of my inertia, or just shut it down and get back to a couple more base blocks. I guess I should push it up again, as I don't think it's a peak yet, but I don't want to get greedy on good legs and fubar next season.