Originally Posted by
asgelle
That's kind of what I'm saying. Certainly you have to have enough training data for it to settle down and be meaningful, but what I wanted to emphasize was that once the numbers have settled down, they should only be interpreted in terms of the individual's unique capabilities. What might be an excessive training load for one person, might not be even close to the limit for another. To use the example of CTL, one person might be able to maintain a CTL of 85 for quite some time, while that might lead to overtraining for someone else. On the other hand, a third person could possibly handle a CTL of 115. Everyone needs to find those limits for themself.
Yes, exactly. I can run a CTL of 60 or so forever and peak at maybe 80, which isn't too bad in my view. Better than being dead. Next job after we finish training for and completing our annual 10-day backpack is to get back on the bike and try to get some sense into my power numbers. CTL will be pretty good, but wrong sport. I use HR off the bike and record all my fitness activities.