johnybutts

I got 9 hours in the last week. 2 hrs was racing.

It seems I am perpetually trying to get into the 10-12 hr range, and never quite making it.

Crash716

oh I know…with the job it's much more important for me to be in the gym than on the bike. But I love racing. Focuses are just redirected right now, it's a season, I know that.

rkwaki

I've got buddies who are still doing 5 hour training rides and I'm like "Meh, Whatever..."
I know that there will be no speed in my legs until June next year (when it finally warms up) so I don't care though I do miss the laughs of a long ride...

Crash716

Yeah, I miss those for the same reasons…the comrade-re, luckily with the buys I get to work with that comes in excess

jsutkeepspining

rikwaki, isnt it still like 60+ degrees where you live?


****ing pansy

rkwaki

Dude it was like 34 this morning. I will own up to it I am a sissy when it gets cold. I would rather ride for 5 hours at 100 degrees than 2 hours at 40 degrees. That's why July/August is always my 'peak' time of year.

jsutkeepspining

you know im just joking with u, you big fat ape! Cant wait to kick your ass this year!

rkwaki

Yeah yeah I've heard that threat before. I'll even give you a head start.
I'm not training serious until March so get going...

You just wait until I get my sprint legs back...
When you see them you'll look like a puppy when they get excited and pee in your Sidis...

jsutkeepspining

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA the only issue is that i roll specialized shoes fool!

also seriously, we'll go up hill and your little 2 w/kg ftp wount be able to handle my 5+ w/kg ftp!

mattm

Trained in the rain with (part of the core of the team) on Saturday, solo in the dry on Sunday.

Need to start upping hours but it's so damn wet and I've become weak in terms of riding in the rain!

johnybutts

When I worked in a shop, I didn't think twice about riding in the rain, now that it's more difficult to service everything I am less eager to get out there.

rkwaki

I plan on doing 100 feet of climbing all of next year...

pjcampbell

Did my first try of 40-20's ever. think I went out a bit hard, and wound up slightly under Pvo2max for the last bunch. Also due to steep hill, the 20" rest often looked like 150 watts instead of ~50. overall pretty interesting. I had no idea how many I had done and was aiming for 15, and ended up with 13. Thought that it was also interesting that my overall avg power including rests was higher than I would have expected.

I could see these being useful... i'll try honing in on the right power and rest and give it another go after the weather clears.

waterrockets 

First threshold workout of this cycle (finished up 8-wk base last week). The cooler weather bumped my asthma and knocked me out of the workout halfway through. I was doing 6x5x1s, and showing about a 20W improvement from 9 weeks ago, but I couldn't breathe at that rate any more and had to stop during the 4th one.

beatlebee 

Anyone care to comment on how much their FTP changed during last season? Either raw numbers or percentage. I would guess that there should be variation depending on how many prior years of training experienced (among other factors), so that might be a good number to post too.

jsutkeepspining

i went from 305 last october to 350 now.

beatlebee 

sweet! care to share your weight, years training?

Fat Boy

Head cold. I road anyway yesterday. Not so, today.

waterrockets 

I went from 325 in January to 245 in February. Now I'm back up to maybe 300W.

caloso

Ran yesterday, upper body workout today. Still off the bike, except for commuting.

beatlebee 

Injury?

mattm

Yeah I need to work on getting my fender'd Pacer back in action, it makes riding in the rain that much easier. I hate getting my pretty race bike all dirty!

alien!

jsutkeepspining

i weigh 155 lbs in regular weight, 145-150 for natz and im sitting near 163 right now becuase ive become lazy. Ill start realing in my weight this week, but im not too concerned about a couple extra lbs (helps me stay heathy during the harsh winter months.

i've technically been training for 2 years, but this was my first really serious year where i worked consistently throughout the winter and tried to get into shape.

Currently am a cat 2 (4 to 2 this season) with ambitions of being a cat 1, and really hoping to score a pro contract eventually even just for a bit to try it out.

Virten

Going to hit this winter with as much mileage as I can. Aiming for 4-5k volume...6k if possible. Need to make Cat3!

jsutkeepspining

little note just to help you out: ride tempo and not huge hours during week, then do large volume days consistantly spinnign (talking average rpm of 95+ for 3-4 hour ride including zeros) at z2. makes a big difference. Also add in some long z3 (i do 3 hour z3 intervals at low acadence later in the winter)