Nice job on the power progress John, always nice to see the numbers move in the right direction.
Yeah, struck out in Tokyo on a hotel gym and couldn't find one nearby. Managed gym bike time in Papau New Guinea, Tokyo, Taiwan, and here but out of luck in Tokyo. There's the cultural and language bit of finding a gym bike on the road but then the looks you get when sweating gallons while riding SST/L4 while folks around you are walking on the treadmills and holding conversations or reading magazines without breaking a sweat. I figure they already know I'm the crazy tourist so it just makes me a bit crazier.
Hope I held some fitness but took a huge CTL hit with this trip. Was up at 112 the day before I flew out of town after being over 100 for over nine weeks during early season racing. Was on fire this spring with that training load but down in the mid 70s even with the gym sessions on the road. Hope the rebuild doesn't take too long.
To answer your earlier question. I set weekly TSS targets to either maintain or build during various points of the season. From those I often have rough TSS targets for workouts but those come second to the primary purpose of the workout which might be Threshold or VO2 Max work or longer Tempo/Endurance riding or perhaps short intense interval work when doing specific race prep. I don't watch TSS as it accumulates but usually have a rough idea as the workout winds down based on time and estimated intensity, if it's an endurance building long ride I might stretch the workout if the TSS seems low for the goals but if it's something like an L4 or L5 session I usually don't pad the workout to hit TSS goals.
-Dave
Yeah, struck out in Tokyo on a hotel gym and couldn't find one nearby. Managed gym bike time in Papau New Guinea, Tokyo, Taiwan, and here but out of luck in Tokyo. There's the cultural and language bit of finding a gym bike on the road but then the looks you get when sweating gallons while riding SST/L4 while folks around you are walking on the treadmills and holding conversations or reading magazines without breaking a sweat. I figure they already know I'm the crazy tourist so it just makes me a bit crazier.
Hope I held some fitness but took a huge CTL hit with this trip. Was up at 112 the day before I flew out of town after being over 100 for over nine weeks during early season racing. Was on fire this spring with that training load but down in the mid 70s even with the gym sessions on the road. Hope the rebuild doesn't take too long.
To answer your earlier question. I set weekly TSS targets to either maintain or build during various points of the season. From those I often have rough TSS targets for workouts but those come second to the primary purpose of the workout which might be Threshold or VO2 Max work or longer Tempo/Endurance riding or perhaps short intense interval work when doing specific race prep. I don't watch TSS as it accumulates but usually have a rough idea as the workout winds down based on time and estimated intensity, if it's an endurance building long ride I might stretch the workout if the TSS seems low for the goals but if it's something like an L4 or L5 session I usually don't pad the workout to hit TSS goals.
-Dave