What exactly happens when you "blow up"?
Does your heart rate all of a sudden jump well above the level that you would do anaerobic 3-5 minute intervals at, and then you loose a lot of power? This never happened to me as a runner as runners rarely go anaerobic, except duiring the last 5-10 minutes of a race.
It seems that this is happening to me in the same general area(short steep hills) of one of my local hard and group rides, and then I get dropped. I feel like I am doing okay but working quite hard ,with threshold and above efforts, and keeping up with the best riders, and then all of a sudden I feel my heart palpitate and I look down at my heart rate monitor and my rate is well above what I do intervals at. Then I am toast until my heart rate drops into my high endurance zone and this can take some time.
I think I developed a good aerobic base this year and then decent sustainable power at threshold. I have done some anaerobic interval work too in the 6 weeks on hills and flats for 3-5 minutes with an equal time bewteen intervals for recovery, for a total of 20-30 minutes a session once a week.
Do I need to do more interval work?
Maybe I need to shorten the rests between intervals?
Thank you for all the help
Quadsweep
Does your heart rate all of a sudden jump well above the level that you would do anaerobic 3-5 minute intervals at, and then you loose a lot of power? This never happened to me as a runner as runners rarely go anaerobic, except duiring the last 5-10 minutes of a race.
It seems that this is happening to me in the same general area(short steep hills) of one of my local hard and group rides, and then I get dropped. I feel like I am doing okay but working quite hard ,with threshold and above efforts, and keeping up with the best riders, and then all of a sudden I feel my heart palpitate and I look down at my heart rate monitor and my rate is well above what I do intervals at. Then I am toast until my heart rate drops into my high endurance zone and this can take some time.
I think I developed a good aerobic base this year and then decent sustainable power at threshold. I have done some anaerobic interval work too in the 6 weeks on hills and flats for 3-5 minutes with an equal time bewteen intervals for recovery, for a total of 20-30 minutes a session once a week.
Do I need to do more interval work?
Maybe I need to shorten the rests between intervals?
Thank you for all the help
Quadsweep