My legs are mostly sore after I’m doing sprint trainings on trainer, I guess my weakest side is lack of strength and during build phase I’ve started doing spring trainings for the first time. My cadence is usually high 90-95, during intervals 105-110, if they’re really hard 120 or more for short time. Outdoor my legs are used more for longer (10-60mins) steady climbs, I think I have to train strength but hate doing this in the gym.
Yeah, I experienced DOMS from 4 hour long rides at Endurance effort with no coasting or pedaling breaks. It was the long and slow with no relief that took an interesting toll on my muscles from an “easy” effort.
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Yeah - possible what I am referring to as tired is mild soreness. When I think sore, it’s the kind of sore I experience after strength training - which is way more than anything I get after riding the bike.
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Back to your original question, I “Googled” (using Duck-Duck-Go) the upcoming edition of the classic power meter book and the 7th result was a Coggan pdf that appears to have been written before the first edition: Training and Racing with a Power Meter 3rd edition at DuckDuckGo
assuming your build phase has a strong dose of VO2max work:
last column… “strong to severe sensations of leg effort/fatigue”
My brain does a good job of ignoring the burning sensations during hard efforts, and instead I really notice the labored breathing. However I definitely feel the leg burn during my late afternoon workouts, and by the time I wake up the next morning the leg burn is usually/mostly gone and the only thing I notice is a little soreness around the knees (due to biomechanical issues I continue to work on).
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here are levels 4-7 of that table:
As mentioned above, I’ve spent a lot of time doing Level 4 / LT at longer and longer intervals, and mentally am now pretty good at ignoring the muscle burn.
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Looks like level 5/6 in build phase is what made my quads 
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What type of work engages the glutes?
I’m at the end of the season and for the last month or two every year, by legs fry on the bike. Wondering how to manage the transition since last race two weeks ago and legs still feel lousy.