Originally Posted by
valygrl
I agree with everyone saying too fast a ramp, don't quit riding in the winter, and you are overtrained so you need to take some time off.
However, for those trying to make something of the TSS/TSB/CTL/ATL- (chappy, your analysis is great, but....) I think it's probably all garbage data based on the fact that he WAGged the 250 initial FTP and hasn't tested at all until now. using an FTP value of 83% of actual is going to dramatically inflate the TSS/CTL/ATL numbers. Throw that analysis away and start over. Or maybe you could cherry pick a few numbers out of some hard shorter efforts from the last few months and back-populate some better FTP estimates.
What's everyone else running for a CTL during the race season? Mine is in the 70-85 range this year, which is the lowest ever, and I'm having the best season ever as well. A lot of that is non-fitness factors, to be sure, but the fitness seems to be there.
totally agree. good post.
for CTL during race season, I've been in varying places ranging from over 100, to in the 65 to 75 range.
I think that when i've been in the 90s/100s, i have a lot of "measurable fitness" and test well, but lack race day freshness and have a tendency to teeter over the edge of being on good form, as well as have a higher propensity to get sick and miss time. I did this in 2010 and eventually in June, right after I recorded my best 20 MMP ever, still is, I fell off the map with chronic cramping, sugar cravings, bad sleep, and finally a stomach flu. I had to get extended recovery and it took me until August to feel good again.
this year I was around 70 for most of the season. Good: I was fresh and really strong, I had the best power outputs on every metric from 57 minutes down to 1' (since 2010 pre fall off
#s ) in August of this year. I did not get sick at all this year, not even once, and was fresh and ready to go at every race. Bad: I think I had a 60-ish mile or 2.5-ish hour shelf life. I did great in shorter races, was good in the first part of longer races, made every selection or forced my own, but struggled as races went on (atypical for me). Could be lots of other factors, but I think one of them is that I lacked some fitness that may have been measurable as a CTL.