Originally Posted by
terrymorse
Are you tracking your Training Stress Score (TSS)? That might help your volume stay within "budget", and keep you from overtraining.
When I'm feeling strong, I keep adding to the volume. But that can come back and bite me, as it did last year. I did a steep 12-week ramp up for an October event, but I ended up getting sick and missed the event.
Here's my ramp-up from last year, from
Training Peaks. In retrospect, I should never have let my "form" number (orange line) get so low.
I'm just learning about this now. My Garmin lists a training load - very confusing to me. I just did a week of easy/recovery type rides and Garmin said may training load was overreaching and nonproductive. Last night I did the hardest VO2 max session to date and, my training load number went way high, and the ole Garmin said "good job"!! you are right in the zone.
More stuff to figure out...