IBOHUNT

2 hours on the trainer. 7x7@95% with 7 RBI

IF 0.83
TSS 138

DGlenday

Dumb question: What's RBI, if it isn't a baseball term?

revchuck 

Recovery Between Intervals.

shovelhd

I've always referred to that as RI, for recovery interval.

DGlenday

Ah - thanks.

Cleave

Six weeks? That's a long time to hold some form. We'll be in Minneapolis too. Just trying to figure out the travel logistics.

Cleave

Two hours on a trainer?!?!?! I don't have that kind of mental fortitude.

IBOHUNT

"mental" being the operative word eh?

Cleave

LAJ

I can't hit the marks unless I'm on the trainer. Lights, cars, stuff, won't let me ride that way. I did try to do work on the TT bike at a place called Candelas. It's fairly low traffic, but the downhill sure didn't lend itself to learning to be happy on that thing.

revchuck 

You don't have that kind of snow, either!

carpediemracing 

Heh. 23 hours, 12 rides. The two long rides were 3 hours. Shortest ride 55 min.

revchuck 

Got some pain coming in a couple of weeks. My coach put up my schedule for the next few weeks and the second week in February is 17:15 worth of riding...with intervals, and ending with a 2:30 ride on the TT bike. I had originally planned on being in Tucson that week, but with my wife's health as it is I can't be gone, so I'm doing my camp from home. Good thing I have a bunch of chamois cream.

nacler22

Spent the last week doing chainsaw intervals on the floor in my rental house. The tenets skipped, and left ~4k in repairs.

I'm so done with being a quasi-absentee landlord, actually, landlord of any type............2x20's on top of a FTP test seems easy by comparison.

Also; gonna try to be less of an interloper on this forum.


As you were.

revchuck 

Something of a PR for me yesterday on my recovery ride. 1:31, TSS 25.6, IF .41, average HR 88 bpm, AP 97, 532 kj.

Racer Ex 

Did zip the last three days, unless you include putting a bunch of stuff up on Ebay.

Cleave

Regarding trainer time, when I started racing as a mere child (16 year-old) I lived in the Northeast United States. Back in those days, booties were an old pair of wool socks with a hole in the bottom for the cleat. Also you didn't tighten your toe strap too tightly to maximize blood flow to your feet and so you could get your foot out quickly if you hit black ice. If the roads were plowed, we rode as long as it was above 20°F. Colder, snowy roads, massive snow melt, etc. kept us off the roads. I had some cheap Cinelli rollers that sounds light a high speed locomotive when I got them going. I would spend 1-2 hours riding them and learned how to do the no-hands and riding-out-of the-saddle "tricks" on them. After I moved to SoCal, my ability to do long roller and then trainer rides declined.

Now I am a trainer wimp.

Training has been going pretty well despite disturbances caused by work. Racing is another story. (See the other thread.)

sarals 

Training, still. Coach has me riding well. I like where I am! I'll be off the bike for 5 days from Thursday through Monday, another company training trip. So, I'll ***. That works really well for keeping things going.

revchuck 

First real ride on the TT bike today. The schedule called for 1:30 total with 20-60 minutes in Z3, the idea being that I was to start getting used to producing power on the sticks. It was pretty brisk - the Garmin said 37 degrees, and there was a 15 mph north wind. That wind made things interesting running at 90 degrees to it. I'm starting to get the hang of it, though I was a threat to anything in my lane with that crosswind. Final tally was 1:15, TSS 77, IF .78, 849 kj.

Hermes

Picked up a nasty cold and missed racing on Sunday at Velo Sports Center. I got out for an easy test ride today and tempo was hard on my breathing but endurance was okay. The weather was great with temps in the low 70s and hazy sunshine.

shovelhd

Base 1 started today.

IBOHUNT

An hour on the trainer doing 5 min threshold intervals.
TSS 72

Rest is over; time to start driving that TSB more negative again

DGlenday

You're speaking in code again ... what does that mean? (I need to learn the short-hand...)

AzTallRider

Short description of the shorthand: Time to start increasing the workload. ;-)

IBOHUNT

I tend to think of a "W"that's falling over drunk backwards if one was to look at it. Increased workload for X weeks then a rest week. Increase again, usually starting at a previous week load, like week 2 of the previous X week 'block'.

So for my way of dumb thinking, your number will be different, there are just used as an example

Week 1 - 410 TSS
Week 2 - 420 TSS
Week 3 - 450 TSS
Week 4 - 460 TSS
Week 5 - 480 TSS
Week 6 - 500 TSS
Week 7 - 300 TSS
Week 8 - 430 TSS = greater than week 2 of the last block
Week 9 - 450 TSS

Of course I may be all wet like an 18 year old cheerleader at a t-shirt contest at spring break....

Others that are smarter than me, which is all ya'll, jump on in,