TheKillerPenguin

I assure you it wasn't intentional! Little you can do when you're an hour from home besides riding through it.

hack

Training has been lacking lately (motivation as well). Went out an hammered a usual route and hit a couple kickers with as much effort as possible. Hit new peak and 5s power numbers. So, that's nice. Probably helped that I zero'ed my PM for the first time since September.

caloso

Did about 40' worth of an hour of power set in the middle of a 90' commute. 99tss.

CTL at 72, which is a bit behind where I would like to be but it could be worse. Zwifting in the morning and then off the bike for 3 days to ski.

aaronmcd

Did the Wednesday night chill beer ride. But I hit the hills pretty hard and did it on my race bike tonight so I had power.

90 TSS for 80 minutes. And I usually assign this ride 30 or 40 TSS. oops.

scheibo

its because of all the gaps and the TSS drift that results as i was trying to explain to you.

aaronmcd

I was thinking about that but there's really no way for my head unit to know if I stopped for 5 seconds or 5 hours since it is asleep/not recording.

mattm

Such a dramatic post about power - do those guys even race bikes??

scheibo

*Time* continues even when you stop recording, and the head unit stores a *timestamp* with each data point. Thus, your head unit definitely knows how long you stopped for.

scheibo

That's nothing. The wattage group packs 100x the drama into 100x less important arguments.

aaronmcd

Sure it records the time of day, but it doesn't add that into the ride time it displays right next to the other metrics. I can't imagine it would display a ride time of 83 minutes, and average power and IF based on 83 minutes, then secretly calculate TSS based on 4 hours.

scheibo

Yes, that's exactly what its doing. Do you have it displaying 'elapsed' time? Check your Strava activity - 1h29m02 moving vs. 3h17m41 elapsed. I know you don't upload from your head unit, but it definitely has similar numbers. Various software will calculate 'moving' differently, so its possible your computer only gave you 83 minutes 'moving', but you'd better believe it knows how to subtract start and end points and calculate the total time of the activity (which is used to calculate the metrics you care about).

You can chose not to care about this, but I would just hazard to suggest the actual stress of doing a riding pub crawl is closer to what you were assigning based on feel.

Ygduf

I don't really gaf about the bug - I'm used to my numbers, etc...

But what I can't wait for is Doge reading that thread and then coming back here to talk about chemtrails.

caloso

If I'm out that long, the stress isn't coming from an algorithm, it's from my wife.

scheibo

Yeah, while I am aware of the bug I haven't switched to the 'corrected' algorithm because its easier to just go along with what you and everyone else knows. Plus, I don't take big breaks on rides and if they occur I either split the ride or take the TSS numbers with a grain of salt.

grolby

CTL = 18.

Scary thing is, that's UP from my low point. This is going to take a while.

abhirama

My 6800 shifter chewed up its second cable in a year. Argh. Might take this opportunity to install Nokon housing that has been sitting on the shelf for over 6 months now.

Does any of you follow the Velonews Fast talk podcast? I find the content to be at a good level and therefore, quite useful.

Wylde06

1 hour last night. After testing on Tuesday, the sinus infection came back pretty much full force on Wednesday so I took that day off..nyquiled up and fell asleep early. Was feeling good enough yesterday that I jumped on the bike after work (also started back on antibiotics). Did a few shorter intervals to wake the legs back up.


Hoping for a good tempo ride tomorrow or Sunday, supposed to be in the 60s here through Monday

gerundium

a little 40 minute spin today to test the race bike. First training race is coming up tomorrow and the anxiety of how you stack up after a winter of training against the competition is starting to kick in here.

aaronmcd

Set my alarm early and hoped the rain would stay away but I woke up at 5:20 to rain and 20 mph wind so I went back to sleep. Road race on Sunday and stage race the following weekend so I may just skip Saturday riding and take a bit more of a CTL hit than planned. Should come out of Chico and ready to add more intensity still under 100. Enough for early season but is it enough to build fitness for mid season racing? And did I squeeze enough ftp work between the rains this past month? Time will tell.

scheibo

i have a cold and was pretty sore from my first time back on the track (running) tuesday since my stress fracture 4 months ago so i just rode easy on wednesday instead of working out. still sick yesterday, but decided i'd already been conservative enough not working on wednesday so I did 3x 'race winning breakaway intervals', now that they're no longer purely theoretical. full on sprint (attack) -> *hard* for 1-2 minutes (get the gap) -> threshold (maintain) for 5-6 minutes. hopefully more valuable than like 3x10 where you just do them evenly paced, but who knows?

1hr on the trainer scheduled for this evening - probably going to just do 6x10' @200W->300W, increasing by 10W per minute. not that hard a workout, but passes the time because something changes every minute.

hubcyclist

lots of sweet spot this week, following the trainerroad sweet spot base high volume 1 plan (for now at least). today did 3x20 over 2hrs, 60mins z2 yesterday, 5x10 thursday and 3x12 wed. I got the cycleops hammer this past week, so using erg mode on these workouts has made them much more doable for me

TheKillerPenguin

26.5 of vo2 in 3-5min snips over a 5hr ride, lighter z2 between em. Repeatability is up over last year, as is ability to put down watts deep into rides. Base is the shiznit.

grolby

It was warm and sort of sunny so I rode outside. Very, very easy with some stops to buy some pastries and drop them by the bike shop. It was awesome.

ancker

This week:
Time: 11:27:54
Miles: 242mi
TSS: 630

CTL: 54.1
ATL: 89.7
TSB: -34.6

hubcyclist

seems like everyone was out today in New England, although I havent been out myself since Sept. did 2hrs today, 127tss on 3x30 at 85%, got in 5 solid days in a row, tomorrow off