mollusk

I got along with my parents pretty well while they were alive, but now I am wishing that I had Waterrockets parents instead. Does that make me a bad person?

For a "normal" person on the 33 I would say that having an enforced month off the bike leading to increases in FTP after a few weeks back on the bike was a clear sign of chronic over-training. But, unless you are lying to all of us about how many hours per week you actually train, WR is the least likely candidate in the 33 to be guilty of over-training. Damn. It is good to be WR and sucks to be me. Damn, damn, double-dog damn.

NomadVW 

1 - Finally got this thing to stop sending me notification e-mails in quadruplicate every time I visited the site.

2 - Gained ~5 pounds over the winter, think I'll hang out here for a while. Threshold power came up to more or less same w/kg (mebbe a little less?)

3 - Pulled a personal best 395w 20 min pNorm last week

4 - Not moving to back Japan until December this year, so pretty much aiming to ride hard all year and have fun.

5 - RAAM in June, no real change except lots of riding.. so.. well. no real change

Feel good, balanced, tired, and all around zen-like.

umd

He's alive!

Enthalpic

Awesome.

ridethecliche

Welcome back nomad!

Still going to race between now and RAAM?

Go crush some souls.

But you have this totally badass beard!

I know. That's freaking ridiculous.

Ex, wr, jrennie, ze, gary, and nomad should get on a team together. Madness would ensue.

ZeCanon

bit under 2 hrs with my girlfriend. Body and mind reset, ready for some hard rides this week.

NomadVW 

Yeah, I've got a full season schedule. I think 3 weekends between now and RAAM without a race, and one of those is a 24-hr training session with my RAAM team.

mollusk

That is my training beard. My "race" beard is much shorter. Training beard is to race beard as club cut is to race cut.

And wtf is the deal with vomax "race" cut jerseys? They fit like bowling shirts. I just might race in last year's team jersey. It was Champion Systems and had lots to not like, but at least it fit snugly.

mike868y

Our team started the season on Vomax. After a few weeks, almost everyone (including the people who chose vomax) were sick of the kits. The quality is subpar, fit is off, and in general they are just not up to the standard of hincapie, lg, etc.

We recently switched to Hincapie.

umd

I was going to make some kind of joke here

Bullseye

if you won't, I will. train hard, grasshopper!!

mollusk

Zone 2 sex? (Waiting for the mods to hit me.)

ldesfor1@ithaca

that's me after some z5 work on the bike.

I get a C- for performance but a A for effort.

Friggin rivet.

ridethecliche

Lmfao.

tspek

It's amazing how consistent you can get the power distribution when you ride alone.

*noted

dhale50

kind of let last week's training slip a bit. Mass Effect2 has taken over my life... Need to get back on track.

bostongarden

At a dinner party this past weekend, my wife had fun telling some folks how it was an interesting coincidence that I stopped racing in 1995 and that our first child was born in 1996. I tried to explain, yada yada yada, but, there was no recovery for me in that conversation, so, I just smiled and challenged everyone in the room to a race (just kidding about the latter).


[Oh, and I worked through the night; so, as I was a tad exhausted today, I went for an easy 40' ride at about 125ap.]

Grumpy McTrumpy

sounds like Festivus

bostongarden

Are Seinfeld riffs allowed in this thread, or do we need to take it to The Twitter Feed? It is tough to successfully pull off the Seinfeld discussion in the Training Status thread.

kudude

5x1' w/ 2' break.

barf.

First intervals I've done shorter than 5' this year. Need them for all the crit-rat action of the coming months, but man it was ugly. Set a new record on the first one, and fell by 30%+ by the 5th.

euphoria

Solid game, if not a bit short.

I lost out on some quality days to a minor c-rash and a diet block but it's been a nice break for the brain. Luckily fitness is a bit like WWI trench warfare.

kudude

seems to me, c-rash could be confused for herpes/chlamydia if you weren't careful

euphoria

You'd think it was a lesson learned but I/it keep(s) getting abraded.

slim_77

Yep. I did those last Thursday for the first time...first few were ok, last two I was really hoping I wouldn't 1) pass out and 2) puke. I like the short recovery. mildly sadistic.

Yesterday/last night: Comute to/from work (27m total) then jumped on the trainer for 6x5'x1' @ ~106-07%. HR was right on, recovery was sufficient, hard but not deathly hard as two weeks ago (last time I did these), so I think its time for a 20' test. I'll wait till after the RR this weekend so I have something in the tank when Tspek kicks my ass.

Apus^2

Looking back at my old WKO files. Power-wise, I'm close to where I was December '08, which is good. Volume wise is a lot different--I don't feel I could go out and do a 4 hour ride and right now I know I can't do 4 day block with 600+ TSS. Frustrating.

I am enjoying some of my comments, like: Genius here deleted the Tundra p-tap file...

Going for a 3 day block--2x20's tonight, Pacing Intervals tomorrow, Group ride on Thursday. 300+ TSS planned. We will see if American Idol gets in the way.