furiousferret

Barely managed an hour today at recovery. Leg is sore, going to take an extra day off.

Ygduf

week was oddly good for numbers. 300mi, 15 hours, 15k climbed and 750tss. All nice square numbers.

hack

10:30, 210 miles, 766 TSS ... tired

hubcyclist

2x20 threshold, feeling pretty fresh after the sick week. 2 weeks till first race of the season (2nd ever)

Wylde06

Since I completely failed my workout Thursday, I figured I would try to just get some volume in for the weekend...

3 hours/50 miles Saturday and 3.5 hours/65 miles on Sunday. Felt great to get some miles in with warmer temps.

Next Sunday is the first club race on the calendar (some treat it as a race, others a hard group ride..these races just count for bragging rights)...basically going to be ~2.5-3 hours of hell. At least its going to be warmer this year...

Ygduf

you all should stop saying you failed at a workout.

it's so negative. 75% of a planned workout is better than nothing, and this is a cumulative-time sport. Just about every day you do anything cycling-related is a drop in the bucket. The difference in a perfect workout vs. an imperfect workout is pretty insignificant once you consider how many drops it takes to fill any portion of that bucket.

shovelhd

That's a different way of saying something I put forth recently, that when doing lots of high intensity intervals, it's ok not to meet target for the last couple if you just can't do it. Technically, it's failure at the interval level, but that's not always a bad thing. It also doesn't imply failure at the workout level.

Wylde06

I would have been happy if I would have finished 75% of the workout. Instead I made it through...20%? It's not the end of the world, but I would still consider it a failed workout.

gsteinb

spring fudgy is a more positive force for good on BF!

Ygduf

I've always been here, it just takes a long time for perceptions to shift.

tetonrider

are your goals too high?

i agree with points above--about failure during a workout not necessarily being a bad thing.

either way, what happened happened and all you can control is how you view and talk about it. you could choose to see the bright side (e.g., "i was super tired and had a stressful day ​but i still got in 20% of my workout!" or "i aimed a little too high but can set better targets for next time") or choose to see the negative.

seeing the positive might not help, but it probably can't hurt. self-talk is a HUGE thing in this sport, because it is brutal physically and mentally.

tetonrider

^^^ this one was amusing.

caloso

14 hours and 836 tss for me last week. 650 is normally a pretty big week for me. TSB is -24.9 so I will be taking a very mellow recovery spin at lunch. Little old ladies on shopping tricycles will drop me.

Wylde06

I don't think so. It was a combination of things, and even during my warmup I wasn't really feeling that great but I figured I would give it a shot anyways..ive had some good rides that started like that, but not this particular ride.

tetonrider

i understand. i have no knowledge of your riding and workouts, but repeated failure sometimes suggests that one is aiming too high.

i don't trust the feelings in my legs during warm-up. often mine feel like $hit, but i still have a great ride.

MDcatV

@Wylde06 - dont worry about not completing a workout as planned. that's valuable info for your training. if you complete every workout as planned, IMO, you arent challenging yourself enough. if you dont complete 1 workout or even a few, just write it off. maybe you have some other stresses that are zapping your energy or had a bad nights sleep, or whatever. if you start not completing a successive or series or block of workouts, then that's valuable insight into your recovery (you prob need more).

globecanvas

4 hours with a bunch of climbing. The first half of the ride was 150 ft/mile. At about 3 hours I started to fade hard, no trouble sitting in, but I had nothing in the wind. My buddy had to tow me home. Luckily he was feeling good and happy to do an hour of tempo. Now I've got a sore throat coming on fast. Maybe time for a couple days off.

gsteinb

Four hours with climbing the day after two races? ��

globecanvas

Supposed to rain tomorrow & be cold weds, so I thought I'd get some threshold work in, take it easy for a couple days, and plan for intensity on thurs/fri. I felt fine until I didn't :/ but I'm definitely coming down with something and I didn't just catch it an hour ago, so I don't think I can blame the ride for it. I had one kid home sick last week and the teenager was home sick today.

shovelhd

Today is a recovery day for me. Tomorrow is a rest day.

TheKillerPenguin

Today I walked to my car, and from my car into a coffee shop. Tomorrow ill ride but if I do anything too frisky my coach will make an attempt on my life.

Gramercy

I rode for the first time in 92 days. Right knee was/is a little sore but I assume it's because I'm not used to the activity. Only rode for 20 minutes, 4 miles on completely flat ground.

wens

I made lunch and dinner for the week. Gonna be lots of Indian ish food this week!

bmcphx

Were you hurt or hibernating?

Gramercy

Both. Let my shoulder heal from my crash at the end of last season and did mostly upper body work in the gym all winter, which really helped (also it helped me to not look as scrawny). I also chose to get rid of my old trainer and not replace it this winter. I'm hoping to do a 40 hour month starting next week and then race May - August.