Creatre

Same.

waterrockets 

We have a half-mile hill like that here. The descent is winding, and they textured it so 2WD residents have at least a chance of getting home when it's wet. I finally convinced a training partner to ride down it. He got going so fast on the texture that it rattled his bottle out of the cage. It took him about 100m to stop. As he turned around to climb back up to it, it sailed by him at about 20mph and continued down the hill.

I actually enjoy descending it, and feeling the heat on the front wheel when I get to the bottom. Hmm. I also end up replacing front wheels only when the brake track wears out...

Creatre

3,1,3,1,3,1 intervals all at max last night. Hit solid numbers, paced them great, bout 5.75 w/kg for 3mins/7.35 w/kg for 1min.

But man I was hurting afterwards. Felt like I got dropped in a race but just from the intervals. Barely was able to hold z2 after. I need to go this hard more often. I think recently I've been pacing my intervals too good and holding back on the first couple too much, and like slamming almost PRs for the last 1 or 2. But I think this will be much better for me as I think my recovery from efforts like these are my weakness.

waterrockets 

Wait, 1' intervals, maxed and paced?

Creatre

Haha. Yeah. Max intensity but not necessarily all out pr setters. I do them seated at what I approximate I can do for that time period multiple times, so I don't blow up after the first interval. These were done at 155% of FTP, so no slouch, but about 100w under my max.

waterrockets 

I see, so the maximum power that you would be able to hold for the duration. Should we come up with an acronym for that? Maximal Paced Power? MPP. That would probably be ideal for a threshold test result, but not fastest for a TT. Not ideal for a 1' test, not ideal for kilo speed, but good for 1' intervals.

ovoleg

I think I might have to cancel my coaching services for a few months while I get some money saved up for an upcoming move. Going to try to self-coach with Friel's book in the meantime.

Creatre

Yeah I'm pretty much just trying to train recovery and anerobic capacity. The 3' really is on the edge of VO2 and makes me dig deep near the end, also paced at about 5MMP levels. With 2 minute recoveries, you whimper home by the end, even pacing the 1 minuters.

On a side note, I have a problem "pacing" my TTs too good, kinda similar to what you said. If I've been training good I know I can hit 320w or something, and I go out and do a TT and I can pace it at exactly 320w. Sometimes this is OK, but I think I often leave a lot out there. I'm still getting top 25% of P12 TTs, so I'm not doing bad, but something I need to work on next year. I'm too good at pacing and too reliant on the powermeter sometimes and may hold back too much.

waterrockets 

Well, the other trick on the TT stuff is to go a bit hard when it's harder (hills, headwind), and recover a bit when it's not. That will lower your average power and bump speed.

Andy STi

I just did a session of those intervals too. This was Monday's workout - 8x2 then 10x1. With me being old and slow I was only able to do 5.3w/kg and 6.6w/kg on mine. Tried to keep them at >135% for the 2 min and > 140% for the 1 min. Those intervals trashed my legs though. If it wasn't for the group ride last night I would have just cruised around in z1, I was feeling it!

TMonk

2hrs on the fixed gear today, 42/18t, hilly route. keeping those rpm's up. No HRM. If I was to guess I would say I averaged mid z2.

perfect morning-after-track / late season JRA kinda ride.

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rbart4506

2hrs in off and on downpours. The plan was for 30min tempo, but when I reviewed my file looks like I did 60min. Guess trying to outrun T-storm cells does that to you...

grolby

Getting stuck back in. 2x20 Z3 on the trainer last night (one step at a time!). First one was really hard, I felt better for the second one. Wednesday Night Super Prestige cyclocross training tonight. Went pretty good. Happy. Tired.

Ygduf

oh, that reminded me. I was feeling bad for having a couple down weeks from a vacation and then the crashing, but your post reminded me that in 8 weeks most everyone else will be stuck indoors all winter and I can overcompensate with a few thousand miles of glorious 50f norcal winter.

rbart4506

Don't remind me!

Then again a nice set of lights can prolong the outdoor adventures...

ovoleg

Didn't think this was possible but after coming over a bump yesterday out of the woods in CX, my seatpost carbon sheared and I could feel the whole post rocking back and forth. Called it a night after 45mins because when I lowered the seatpost past the breaking point it was too low for my fit.

Jandro 

+1

Hida Yanra

weaponing up for tonight at the track - espresso style.

Cat2 upgrade or blow up,
bonus difficulty: it's Kierin night, so I've got fewer chances to do my thing.

mattm

Good luck dude! Is tonight the last chance?

Track points expire at the end of the season right?? That'd be a shame..

Hida Yanra

There's theoretically one more week at the end of Sept I could hit - but between good chance of rain and flying back from nats a couple days before... I certainly don't want to count on it.

Track: I'd lose 1/2 the points, that's a bunch of podiums against key'ed up early season sprinters that I'd have to go get in June.

Creatre

Threw the towel in for the season. I've not bounced back from my rest week last week. Tired/fatigued, having trouble holding power, and just having a bad week or two. Started racing in February so not too bad overall. Just kinda sucks because I finally just built back up after my injury during the summer and was getting form back. But I think that build up caught up to me.

Gonna take a few weeks off the bike, then relax and start building towards 2014. Hopefully I just don't burnout next season starting the build in early october!

Harun

NVCA rules say from the date of a race, upgrade points are only halved after 12 months, and expire after 24 months from the date of that race. Don't know about other velodrome orgs but it might be worth it to check out for peace of mind.

I'm kind of in the same boat (only a couple points from my 2 track upgrade), but started up too late and ran out of races. Nice thing is usac track starts again here in April so I'll be hitting the 'drome hard in about six months....

spectastic

so running is supposed to be a more intense cardio workout. how do you guys integrate running into your routine?>

ovoleg

my knees/calves/quads/hams feel thrashed after I run. I try not to

ovoleg

Knee finally felt pretty good again to where I can ride normally and not worry about it too much, feels like its at 95% again. I swear I am never MTB'ing without knee pads ever again!