Good One

Threshold Day! My favorite. After a successful ftp test last week, I took Leo’s advice and reset my training zones for this week’s 3×20 minute workout. No more leisurely 290 watt efforts. It’s the Second Age of Build. With trepidation, I finished my warm-up and launched into the set. 305, 306, 308. Around a 4.5 watt/kilogram ratio for the bunch, purportedly 99% of FPT. I have a good relationship with this kind of effort. Oh, it hurts – but in a steady, I-can-manage-you-Dr.-Pain sort of way.
I have a couple of obligatory collegiate crits this weekend, the first races of the year for me. Obviously, given that I’ll go into them with a hard 14 hours in the legs, these are the ultimate in “C” status events. I’m more excited to feel the general race environment than I am to do fast, dangerous laps before getting pulled. After all, getting pulled is akin to the relief you feel as a kid in Freeze-Tag when you finally are safe and get to stop running.

3 Responses to “Good One”

Shane says:

March 13, 2009 at 6:55 am

Hey Aaron good luck at Columbia! Pull a Julian and just appear out of nowhere in the final sprint up that hill. Yelling things in German.
Joe says:

March 13, 2009 at 8:50 am

You’ll do just fine this weekend! Go get em!
Aaron says:

March 13, 2009 at 11:30 am

Thanks guys!