November 2008

First Snow

Many Thresholders and New England riders may not have realized, but today brought the first flakes of snow. At the very least, it was snowing in Dover and it was some gritty stuff! Met up with Randall in Waban and rode out to Fabio’s in Wellesley center. If you haven’t riden with Randall before, it [...]

training log: Saturday Surprise

Good morning Thresholders, all, I trained Saturday and… well, last year I had a late season goal of averaging 300W (90% of FTP) for 2 hours (and while I may have done this in a race, I never had the power data to confirm this), which I never met. And on to todays workout: I [...]

2009 SOCKS= Found

thanksgiving training:

got out the door for a 2:50 training ride late thursday morning and here’s what I did: 15′ warm up 120′ endurance pace (around 70% of LTP) where I did lots of climbing at low cadences (muscle tension/over-gearred training, it can be called…) and generally trying to keep pressure on the pedals and not get [...]

more resevoir hot laps

eLTrain did this morning: 15′ WU 61′ of SST around the resevoir.  Average power was 94% of LTP and average HR was 94% as well.  interesting to see that HR and watts are increasing with direct, linear correlaton. 15′ CD recovery meal was: 300cal shake (25g whey protein, 50g carb from maltodexterin) and 1 large [...]