Due to demands at work last fall, dug myself into a hole with a starting CTL of 45 (or perhaps even lower). didn't get above 75 until last week, when my season has already been over. Got sick 3x between Jan and Feb (really wasn't training much) and then got sick 4x between late April and mid June. The only form i carried was from July until now, when i missed out on 2/3 of the racing i could have done.

for races up to 2.5 hours, felt strong, set all sort of in-race records, broke away cleanly and stayed away in races, and was able to be strong late in the race when the breakaways took place. 20 min power (the only thing i actually test for) also seemed to have improved despite the really low volume of training.

downside is that when the race went over 3 hours, i was running on empty.