Last hard workout today prior to next weekend's stage race. It was scheduled as 2:30 at endurance pace with a ten minute SST interval, five minutes RBI, then 5x5' threshold+ intervals with decreasing RBI of 5, 4, 3 and 2 minutes, then another ten minutes of SST sometime after the end of those intervals. I got through the first SST and the 5x5s, and that was it...too whupped for the last SST, cruised back home with my power on the border between recovery and endurance pace for most of the time. TSS 160, IF .78, 1650 kj.

My guess is that 40 hours/week on my feet in the bike shop is raising my non-bike TSS to the point where it's impacting my training. Since I had spent the previous seven years as a cube rat, I hadn't noticed work-related fatigue impacting my training. Just going to have to deal with it...and find a way to sit more at work!