A Silverthrone-esque Pettit (+4x20sec sprint intervals).
First “real” ride after 2 weeks off bike. So much wiggling and niggling trying to find my position again.
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Decided to man up and get back on plan. Rode Pettit and actually enjoyed it. Form Sprints are good fun. Mary Austin next 
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Huffaker today. Turned down 4% after the openers (I’ve done enough of these to know my repeatable work is not full 100% of that workout). Hard work at 640am. Was definitely not motivated to start but glad to be finished none the less.
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Looks a bit chaotic due to the challenge of keeping the dumb trainer steady,however, somewhat chuffed with myself for knocking over every power target on Mills.
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My first ever ramp test, followed by the Taku.
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Huffaker for me today. Was my first hard ride after coming back from being sick.
Last 3 intervals were absolutely brutal. 10/10 did not enjoy. Feels good to finish though!
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Lunch run 6km +100m at RPE6 but HR was unusually high, so more like a 7.
Evening swim, interrupted at the end of mainset for a swim class, so main set went from 1200m to 3000m and massive cramps accordingly, doh. 3800m including WU, too knackered for WD.
Ramp test followed by Carson -4. It doesn’t matter how many times I do it, that last 7 minute interval at %94 of FTP following a ramp test is just about the most difficult SS interval of any training block…
On the upside, a ~7% bump in FTP following a block of short power build. I’m just a few watts away from being back where I was during my peak this last summer. Should be able to get well past that peak in time for my first event in the spring.
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This morning was a 40 minute EZ run.
Lunch time swim was 1500 yards of mostly drill work with a 5x100 thrown in for good measure.
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Ramp test day - saw an FTP increase of almost 10% (!)
Reveling in the easy gains that come early on in consistent structured training - before TR, my riding has been consistent or structured, but I’ve never managed to do both at once. 
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Bashful +2 as part of Sustained Power Build. I had last week off due top Thanksgiving. VO2Max is my nemesis. Halfway through I remembered what happened last time I did Bashful and I cut my cadence down to 85-90. Did much better.
Had to take a break after the third interval of the final set as I let my cadence get above 95 again. There’s a small spike in the last interval that is a measurement system dropout, not me, honest.
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I think you passed the sickness baton on to me. Lungs felt burned after Garfield yesterday. By bedtime I was coughing and running a temperature and today have pretty much laid on the couch all day.
My last bout of training-preventing-sickness was from Dec 21-31 2017 so I guess I was due; I knew all the germy kids I saw at preschool last week were out to get me.
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Same here !
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Did this yesterday teatime with a few connection issues. Had to dial back on ftp after weekend in Dublin 
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Palisade today, wasn’t looking forward to it as I struggled with it a lot during SSBLV1.
During the second interval I thought how am I supposed to finish the remaining three intervals but to my surprise I got through them without any big problems.
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Did Leavitt -5
Followed up with a lunch time swim of 2000 yards, endurance set with minimal recovery between sets.
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I also suffered through Palisade today. Two 15s backpedals on the last interval, other than that it was “fine”. This is masochism!
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Huffaker.
HUUUGE 10sec PM–>TR delay! 
That yellow line was aaaalll over da place!
Surprisingly easy considering I’m still sick 
, although 2 weeks off the bike completely obliterated any and all souplesse I had in my legs…power wasn’t a problem but pedalling was downright awful!
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