feelin’ the fatigue of increased volume

Monday:

SST,

Spent about 64′ at 90% with a few small breaks… best 30′ segment was @ 92% of FTP with HR @ 91% of LTHR… just right (but not improved since a month a ago…)
2 hours outdoors, 1600 kjs total.
PE felt high, I had a bit more carbs durring the day than normal (still dropping weight… or at least trying) to try and set myself up for a good day tuesday.  Carrying some fatigue from the weekend…?

Today:

30′ high end endurance then:

LowCadence steep hills (muscle tension intervals). (105″x3)3 
Hit similar power numbers and HR #’s even though these inervals were 15″ seconds longer than last week. PE was similar averaged right around 114% of FTP for all 9 intervals… interestingly on the last 2 (best 2 repeats of the night) HR stabilized right @ 95% even though I was pushing wattage 50w over my FTP. Who knows if this is worth celebrating, but over the past week or so, it’s all I got.
1000 KJ.

Tomorrow will be a bit of trial by fire as I hit my 3rd day in a row with SST/TEMPO depending on how the legs feel. It’ll be indoors on the rollers. I’m gonna give myself a nice 20-25′ WU and see how I’m feeling. 
A 10′ effort at 94-95% should either break my spirits (and designate the WO as long tempo) or start a nice SST interval. Either way I’m looking at 2 hours on the rollers…. sort of looking forward to it. weird.

-L

One Response to “feelin’ the fatigue of increased volume”

  1. MattD says:

    weird = fast, come spring!

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