This is week 3 of a 4-week training cycle, and it's supposed to be a hard-ish week. I was feeling it this morning. You know it's bad when the coach comes up and asks you if you're OK. He said he usually knows when someone's tired during these workouts because they stand up a lot, and I was doing just that. We were doing power intervals and were supposed to maintain a 70-rpm cadence. Struggles.
Then I remembered that about 4 weeks ago, I struggled through the workout as well. It was totally different in that it was high-cadence intervals, but it was similar in that I absolutely could not maintain the required intensity. There might have been a few more variables this morning, like we upped our wattage after last week's test and I only ate half the breakfast I usually do, but surely that wasn't all of it. If I just do not schedule a race on this week during the season, the season should go well.
The workout was about 1:30 (that's how long I rode before getting off), with a 10-minute warm up, a 10-minute tempo interval, and then the main set of 2 on, 2 off, 4 on, 4 off, 6 on, 4 off, 8 on, 4 off, 6 on, 4 off, 4 on, 4 off, 2 on, recover. I skipped the last 4-4-2 so I could shower. My HR felt and looked really high throughout—average 156, max 182—and it stayed around 175 during the work intervals and didn't seem to go down past 145 during the rest intervals.
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