More TT work this morning, really starting to enjoy these rides and the sensation of speed. 30' barely over z2 and then 15' at ~87%. It's nice out there on a cool and (relatively) windless morning to get in the groove.

Fiesta TTT Tuesday. What a great day for a time trial - mid 60s, water was like glass and 8 person rowing teams on the water. 20K into Strava. Another chainless day.

Taking a sweetspot week break from my TT bike intensity workouts plan.

I swear, something has happened from 2019. In 2020 I did a hair more miles, more hours, and a crap ton more elevation. Overall more KJ's. By all metrics, I'm a hair faster.

But........in 2019 I could pretty much eat and drink "at will". Now........I feel like I can't eat a damned thing without putting on a pound or two. I'm in good shape overall, but it's like..........seriously, WTF.

I know.....calories in, calories out. Thing is though, I really feel I ate the same or more in 2019! Eff this crap yo.

Perfect. Great progress for him! I remember in April WR Jr was struggling to hold 15mph. It moves fast. Enjoy!

geez louise I just finished a garbage 3x20. I had to drive down to my parents' to attend a funeral, so I just had some coffee and then a light lunch with my parents and got on the bike as soon as I got home, so my HR was sky high at 90%, hitting 170 today, when yesterday it only got to 160. The workout itself was supposed to be 90-94-92%, I had to back off on the 94 back to 90 and did the last at 88 and still needed a couple of pauses. time to eat and get back at it for tomorrow's 3x30 @ 90

60 min of z2 on the trainer this morning. I've decided to stick with TR but for boring workouts like this morning (Pettit), I just started creating custom workouts in Zwift to match.

Took the day off today, and rode 99 mi with 4,300' elevation in a bit under 6 hrs. 3 hrs of zwifting on tap for tomorrow morning before work. I think I'll join this 90 minute "C" based group ride and then hit up Alpe de Zwift for some climbing.

another crummy day, doesn't help that I tried doing 3x30 @ 90% less than 24hrs after yesterday's disaster. I did 2x30. I was already planning on doing this, but I'll be replacing my weekend workouts with longer endurance stuff and then enjoy an easy endurance week next week. It's crazy how quickly the wheels can come off after a day of being screwy with nutrition/recovery. CTL is 89 so I'm good cutting myself some slack, esp after have a solid block

Scheduled to do 3x12' at 96-100% but that just wasn't happening. Dialed it down and completed them around 90-92%. Ugh.

Fiesta 3 laps of 30” on 1’ off workout and then 2 laps of tempo. 72 degrees, sunny, light winds. I continue to rip the pedals off the bike.

Spent a week in the ICU (nearly died) at the beginning of December and im just now getting back to wanting to ride again. Had a terrible ramp test last night..

gees. covid?

get better. take your time.

Actually kind of enjoying the big climbs on Zwift (Alpe, Ventoux, Epic, etc) for doing endurance work. It's only this year, after having my smart trainer for a few years, that I'm getting more into it. I'd assumed my indoor power was lower, not I'm not so sure they're really any different.

Not covid. Metabolic Acidosis. Was doing the keto diet for a few weeks and the perfect storm of complications with my diabetes medicine happened.

I'm stupid. I forgot USAC did 20% off Trainingpeaks. So I paid up.

Very interesting to finally see my data. A bit eye opening in areas. I was super worried that with my bad wreck in the race and recovery then weeks of stagnation after poison ivy and having to take prednisone that 2020 was going to have been a waste. And 2021 hasn't "felt" super productive, yet.

To my surprise, 2020 I gained 400KJ per week of work over 2019. My hours/week was not appreciably more in 2020. Not that much as a % change. Also, a good surprise, most of that gain happened in the 2nd half of 2020. And I've been maintaining the KJ/week through some bad weather recently.

That's uhm, a 15% bump mostly driven over the last 6 months and even then the last 3 months.

I feel, as a "floor" indicator of my bike fitness......that the KJ/week I do is a good combo of "hours" and "power" that I put out.

Now, once it gets closer to race time..........it'll be time to optimize on that engine. I can tell it's there, I'll just need the specificity work to rev the engine. I think the engine is there right now, just not being used optimally for any specific thing..........other than TT.

I'm going to checkout the library also now.

Might be best investment in my TT bike speed I can make for 2021!

Yesterday was a strength and mobility workout and San Diego set a high temperature record for the day of 88 degrees.

In SD, several of the tennis / golf facilities are offering outdoor gyms. My current fitness club has partnered with one of these outdoor facilities so I can workout outdoors using their facility. I really like the outdoor gym experience although the temperature was a little high. It will be interesting to see if there is a shift to offer more outdoor fitness opportunities even when the pandemic is over.

The facility has converted a tennis court to a canopied gym floor with weights, benches, racks and other fitness stuff. I was walking by one of the courts where a tennis player was working out with a ball machine. I was thinking, hmmm, that brings back memories and it would be nice to dust off my tennis game and flip from cycling to golf and tennis and have cycling as a by the by aerobic workout. And then on the way back to the locker room, I walked past the lap pool and thought, hmmm, maybe I should hire John Howard (he lives in SD) as a combo swim and cycling coach. Okay enough of that.

decided to skip the last big sweet spot workout and did a 3hr z2 ride instead (same tss, although obviously not created equal). It does take a special kind of crazy to do more than 2hrs on the trainer lol I'll be trying this again tomorrow. I'm continuing to experiment with doing my z2 rides 2% above the target (so basing it off 305w ftp rather than 300w), it's not a huge difference but 5w at the high end of z2 is enough to make it a little more interesting and so far my pwr/HR are aligning as if 305 were my ftp. Anyhow, just being a little looser with things on the easier rides, build phase will be a rude awakening, since I haven't done anything over 94% (and generally am around 90-92%), so over-unders and suprathreshold stuff is really going to kick my butt

Thought I saw you today ~11:00 Sano state park. I expect not based on posting time.

Probably. We left Southgate Camp Pendleton around 10:40 and it takes an hour to get to the San Clemente.

Do you do Zwift or just TR? I do a 3 hr ride on Zwift almost every week and will do up to 4 voluntarily. More than that takes some motivation.

i use both concurrently, I use an ant+ stick for zwift to read my Assioma pedals and TR uses Bluetooth to control the hammer and read the Assiomas for power match. I’ll jump on events or whatever during workouts, like today I went on a bmtr 100mile ride (I did 65 miles). So if I had picked a longer workout I def could have stuck it out. I’m just so used to a 2hr max for the TR stuff but It would prob only take a few times to get used to longer rides

How old are you? Are you feeling tired (wore down) quite a bit now?

I had this same thing happen to me, subtle weight gain, low energy. I was tired before I got tired while exercising if that makes sense. Feeling off while I was in great shape (was a machinegunner in the USMC so lots of “training”).

Got a blood test. Hypothyroidism. Anyway you might possibly want to get a blood test if this continues and you get more alarmed about.

Good luck.

I'll keep an eye on it. Generally speaking, my daily energy level is good. I find time at work to leave the desk and go walk the tank hall a lap or two. Or do some laps walking it at lunch. Before workouts I usually feel pretty good. It's rare to not feel I have the energy for one (unless I'm trying to do a workout on the wrong level of "freshness").

I'm 36.

One thing I think I did was in 2020 I bought into the whole "breakfast is super important" language. I get it to an extent, but I think changing that put on some pounds to me. In 2020 I started eating a lot more at breakfast anticipating eating less for lunch/dinner etc.... Nope. I ate exactly the same at the other meals of the day. So it was total bollocks to eat all that at breakfast time.

It's slowly coming back down now, really slowly, after ditching that idea. Also, we backed off our more unhealthy takeout weekly meal to less often also. We had been getting a massive pile of Indian takeout once a week. Probably nearly a 2000 cal meal. Now we only do that like once a month and get some Mediterranean takeout with the piles of veggie and a better balance (and less calories).

We have a wifi/bluetooth scale coming in the mail today that can pair to my Trainingpeaks that does all the fancy measures: weight, body fat, water, etc.... I'll add that as a field in my TP charts and track it for a while.

do you even zwift, bro?

Gonna head out in a bit for another ~45 min of time in position (TT bike) at z3 or (low) z4. But this time, I'm wearing my SDBC speedsuit w/pocket, my race front wheel and specialized evade. I usually wear a lighter/comfier Giro in training. Just for funsies.

Last ride of the block! Next week I'll do 7-9 mostly easy hours. The long ride will probably be... you guessed it... three hours on Zwift before work!

DKA?
Serious ish man. Hope you recover soon. Like Gary said... take your time.

Glad you're doing okay all things considered!

That Gary guy knows his stuff.

Just doing the work. Another 700+ TSS week. Starting to see some short sharp efforts. Forgot what it was like to dig down deep and grind out 400 or 500 for an effort. There might still be a bike racer left inside this skin bag.

Did a 15 mile event on Zwift and thought it would be nice filler (since 95% of all events on Zwift are flat) before the weekend but it ended up being Ventoux! So I did an hour at 92% on so so legs. Wrecked me the next day, but it was worth it. I probably should up my ftp but I really don't want to....

I use both but not concurrently. Used to do TR for solo training and Zwift for Group Rides / Races. Lately I've been considering dumping TR because I know the programs by heart and can replicate them in Zwift, especially since courses like Tempus Fugit don't mess with ERG too much. I'm level 40 in Zwift and do that all the time now because I want to hit 50. Petty I know.

Ugh, glad you are alright. Take it easy, things will come.

Yea, DKA. I just didnt have the high blood sugar so I didnt go to the ER until it was almost too late (had some back pain and difficulty breathing that got really bad over a few hours). My doctors took me off of my oral meds (for obvious reasons..) and im on insulin right now..which I hope changes once I see an endocrinologist next month. I hate being on insulin