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Follow-up: no intervals for new rider

Old 04-16-09, 12:56 PM
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Follow-up: no intervals for new rider

I posted here a couple months ago about problems I was having doing high-intensity intervals on the trainer ("Intervals -> Nausea" https://www.bikeforums.net/training-nutrition/512192-intervals-nausea.html), and got some great feedback - both about how to better do these intervals... and that as a NEW rider, it was really better for me NOT to do them.

I've had great results since then - so I wanted to post a follow-up and say thanks again to everyone who chimed in on my original thread.

I took the advice aimed at me as a new rider, and backed off the intensity of my work on the trainer, and started doing SST-type workouts.

When I started riding outside more in late February & March, I focused on piling on the base miles, and gradually increased the intensity of my rides. I've got about 1500 road miles in the bag so far this year, and have been doing increasingly fast/long group rides every week. Also making sure I get good recovery time after the hard efforts.

I can really feel myself getting stronger every week. Yesterday my morning ride got rained out, so I hit the trainer and did a 20-minute FT test (last 20 minutes of a 30-minute TT), and my power at FT has increased more than 20% from when I did the test 10 weeks ago - from 201 watts on 2/5 to 245 watts on 4/15.

I also dropped about 10 pounds in that period... it's all good.
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