Who said it was easy? And who said it was a 20 min workout? It was just 20 min of those intervals, then 15 min of 1 min-1 min- 1 min at 115% FTP-100%FTP-75% FTP. Plus warm up and cool down. Pretty tough workout, total 1hr 5 min. Love it.

I find almost all of his workouts to be very hard but do-able. He's really good at scheduling just exactly the maximal thing you're capable of on that day. It's influenced for sure by the surrounding days, this is kind of a light week overall for me but because of constraints on my end this weekend, I wound up with three consecutive interval workouts, plus a road ride. So what I can maximally do on my interval days is different than what I might get assigned in a week with two interval workouts for example.

He gets notes on every ride, we talk on the phone, he knows how I feel. I'm pretty comfortable that he has an excellent sense of where I am right now.

I mi agree that the FTP is just a number. A big huge important number from which a lot of training and pacing is determined. But it doesn't capture your entire picture. There is a little more nuance to it, I think. I don't completely understand that nuance. Fortunately I'm not the brains of this operation. My role is to just ride the bike. Fine by me.