Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
I'm looking for other riders' accumulated totals over long training periods to see if those long-term totals look like the A rides for which they are training. My training ride totals, perhaps accidentally, do match up rather well to my A rides. Does a hard-core crit rider have the same experience? Many riders on here emphasize sweet-spot, sweet-spot, sweet-spot. I would then expect the rides for which they are training to have a lot of sweet-spot and their accumulated totals to be similar. Or if all you did was short TTs, would your training totals look more like a TT ride? Or is this all nonsense?
Do you see what I'm inquiring about? Here are my indoor totals for the past 28 days:
These totals are a low on the high end because it's just November and I haven't been doing much high end..
Okay, looking at my A-Events vs accumulated totals over the last year:-
Z1 : 47% vs 40% (Active Recovery)
Z2 : 19% vs 25% (Endurance)
Z3: 15% vs 17% (Tempo)
Z4: 10% vs 11% (Threshold)
Z5: 9% vs 7% (VO2 Max and above)
So reasonably close overall. Note that the above totals do include my event rides, but there are only half a dozen of those vs hundreds of training rides and indoor sessions.