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02-23-08, 07:16 PM
This is going to expose me for the GIGANTIC nerd I am, but hey...that's cool. I've been waiting all day to look at my data in cycling peaks, and post the results of today's workout :D
As anyone who bothers to pay attention to the crap I post knows, I just had knee surgery on the 29th of January. However, as this wasn't a surgery that required me to protect any grafts, I had the surgeon's permission to ride outside as of yesterday.
Permission in hand, out I went with the intent of doing 2, max 3 hours with some low end SST (70-80%). The weather was perfect, 50* and overcast at starting, and rising to 60* with beautiful skies near the end. After a quick warmup, I looked down to see myself climbing the first grade at around 380 watts - well, well...I decided to try to hold a hard tempo for 20 minutes, then chill out. I made it to twenty minutes and felt like Godzilla on smack. Thirty minutes it was. At thirty minutes I felt like the love child of Conan the Barbarian and Godzilla - on smack and EPO. F*&k it, I decided to try to hang on for 60 minutes. Hang on I did...
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s39/jnoahj/60minutesoflove.jpg
Over endless rollers:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s39/jnoahj/rollersbraggtoctave.jpg
So what does Monod think my FTP is now? - All of the peak values were obtained on today's ride, with no specific focus on maxing out the efforts for the durations :beer:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s39/jnoahj/CP.jpg
So, enough of the graph nonsense - suffice it to say, I feel stellar. I'm made a nearly complete recovery of my pre surgery power, and through what I like to think was a "smart" use of the post-op downtime (reading/re-reading and applying Friel's and Coggan/Allen's books) know I've got a lot more in the tank.
The ride above, in and of itself would be at least personally note worthy, but it didn't end there. As I rolled down from a favorite local hill, I saw the club from Southern Pines was getting their Saturday ride together. Well heck, I'm only ~75 minutes from home, might as well get another 2-3 hours in :D The ride was really slow Z1/Z2 for more than the first hour, but as folks got warmed up fun was had. The most impressive part was a 12 year old kid who couldn't weigh more than 90lbs soaking wet who climbed like a scalded cat. We started with a group of ~20, and on the final hills I was hitting 500+ sustained watts near the crests, and this little guy, his dad and two, and then one other guys were left. Amazing. That's talent.
As for me - talent or no, I just like to ride my bike, and as I hammered out the closing 90 minutes of my ride in the waning sunlight past farms and forests on a crisp early spring day, trying to beat twilight back to my car, it was clear that days like today are the reason I ride.
Total ride stats:
Entire workout (214 watts):
Duration: 5:12:15
Work: 3993 kJ
TSS: 394.7 (intensity factor 0.872)
Norm Power: 270
VI: 1.26
Distance: 97.305 mi
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 940 214 watts
Heart rate: 69 183 144 bpm
Cadence: 29 141 84 rpm
Speed: 2.2 39.3 18.8 mph
Pace 1:32 26:49 3:12 min/mi
Hub Torque: 0 431 81 lb-in
Crank Torque: 0 1265 225 lb-in
As anyone who bothers to pay attention to the crap I post knows, I just had knee surgery on the 29th of January. However, as this wasn't a surgery that required me to protect any grafts, I had the surgeon's permission to ride outside as of yesterday.
Permission in hand, out I went with the intent of doing 2, max 3 hours with some low end SST (70-80%). The weather was perfect, 50* and overcast at starting, and rising to 60* with beautiful skies near the end. After a quick warmup, I looked down to see myself climbing the first grade at around 380 watts - well, well...I decided to try to hold a hard tempo for 20 minutes, then chill out. I made it to twenty minutes and felt like Godzilla on smack. Thirty minutes it was. At thirty minutes I felt like the love child of Conan the Barbarian and Godzilla - on smack and EPO. F*&k it, I decided to try to hang on for 60 minutes. Hang on I did...
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s39/jnoahj/60minutesoflove.jpg
Over endless rollers:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s39/jnoahj/rollersbraggtoctave.jpg
So what does Monod think my FTP is now? - All of the peak values were obtained on today's ride, with no specific focus on maxing out the efforts for the durations :beer:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s39/jnoahj/CP.jpg
So, enough of the graph nonsense - suffice it to say, I feel stellar. I'm made a nearly complete recovery of my pre surgery power, and through what I like to think was a "smart" use of the post-op downtime (reading/re-reading and applying Friel's and Coggan/Allen's books) know I've got a lot more in the tank.
The ride above, in and of itself would be at least personally note worthy, but it didn't end there. As I rolled down from a favorite local hill, I saw the club from Southern Pines was getting their Saturday ride together. Well heck, I'm only ~75 minutes from home, might as well get another 2-3 hours in :D The ride was really slow Z1/Z2 for more than the first hour, but as folks got warmed up fun was had. The most impressive part was a 12 year old kid who couldn't weigh more than 90lbs soaking wet who climbed like a scalded cat. We started with a group of ~20, and on the final hills I was hitting 500+ sustained watts near the crests, and this little guy, his dad and two, and then one other guys were left. Amazing. That's talent.
As for me - talent or no, I just like to ride my bike, and as I hammered out the closing 90 minutes of my ride in the waning sunlight past farms and forests on a crisp early spring day, trying to beat twilight back to my car, it was clear that days like today are the reason I ride.
Total ride stats:
Entire workout (214 watts):
Duration: 5:12:15
Work: 3993 kJ
TSS: 394.7 (intensity factor 0.872)
Norm Power: 270
VI: 1.26
Distance: 97.305 mi
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 940 214 watts
Heart rate: 69 183 144 bpm
Cadence: 29 141 84 rpm
Speed: 2.2 39.3 18.8 mph
Pace 1:32 26:49 3:12 min/mi
Hub Torque: 0 431 81 lb-in
Crank Torque: 0 1265 225 lb-in