Coming into the week I've been carrying a lot of load in an effort to continue to drive up the chronic training load. I just hit 100 yesterday after a low of 78 just 5 weeks ago. A nice, steady ramp rate to get back to form. But with the increased load comes some residual fatigue...
Monday - I was simply tired. No motivation to ride and I fell asleep on the couch after work. Body was telling me something...
Tuesday - Still carrying some negative TSB but I think the main point was carryover fatigue from a hard weekend. Intended to do some VO2 work but the legs weren't there.
Wednesday - An hour and 45 minutes of PC riding at a nice endurance/low tempo pace. I have to admit that by the end my hip flexors were barking at me. Still, no problems spinning out for nearly 2 hours.
Thursday - A long tempo ride of 2.5 hours including a stretch of 1:45 at about 260 W. I was dead at the end. The negative aspect of bumping up your threshold.
Friday - No riding due to a ton of rain in the area.
Saturday - Good hard group ride.
Sunday - Ditto Saturday's effort but an extra 2 hours on my own to increase load.
A good week ending up with my CTL at just under 103. The ramp rate is decreasing a bit due to the threshold number getting reset. No personal bests but the form is back to the levels I was hitting over the winter.
PC time this week - 1 hour 45 minutes
PC time to date - 200 hours 20 minutes
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Your blogs are always so infomational with so much research and data. It must take hours to prepare it. Plus your week looks uper busy!
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