Originally Posted by
achoo
Yeah, but in this case I'd venture to say the OP is OD'ing on short intervals - from his posting he doesn't seem to hold constant power for his 20-min tests.
Originally Posted by
DaveWC
I'm doing recovery rides on Mon/Fri, short intervals (10-20 seconds) on Tue, fast tempo ride Wed, longer intervals on Thu (1 minute) and 80-100km endurance rides on Sat/Sun.
I ride on average 300km per week. Of that I do two days of riding intervals totalling 48km per week. Is that ODing on intervals? Today's ride included the 20 minute FTP test which was not intended to be a ride with intervals, nor have any of my previous 20 minute tests been done that way. The fact that I ended up jacking it up & down in the last 5 minutes was not planned, nor recommended. It just happened.