Last week I was doing my threshold efforts and finding it almost too easy. The same goes for the VO2 efforts. So I thought I'd retest.
I had to go to Sydney for a few days so there was 4 days off the bike. I tested yesterday and I'm ashamed to admit, I bombed out after 12 minutes.
I did the same protocol as in The Book and felt happy with my 5 minute effort. But soon after getting into the 20 minute FTP test I felt awful and struggled to hold my existing power level.
In my defence it was 32 degrees, but I was really angry at myself for quitting and for being rubbish at cycling when only the previous week I was almost struggling to hold the power down!
I got home and analysed the work and even my 5 minute effort was 1 watt higher than when I last tested 2 months ago.
I can only assume the hot weather and the 4 days of doing nothing but driving and running around Sydney did me no good.
I'm going to do some SST and threshold work this week then maybe take a couple of easy days, then re-test.
Surely 2 months of pretty solid training would've done something???
I had to go to Sydney for a few days so there was 4 days off the bike. I tested yesterday and I'm ashamed to admit, I bombed out after 12 minutes.
I did the same protocol as in The Book and felt happy with my 5 minute effort. But soon after getting into the 20 minute FTP test I felt awful and struggled to hold my existing power level.
In my defence it was 32 degrees, but I was really angry at myself for quitting and for being rubbish at cycling when only the previous week I was almost struggling to hold the power down!
I got home and analysed the work and even my 5 minute effort was 1 watt higher than when I last tested 2 months ago.
I can only assume the hot weather and the 4 days of doing nothing but driving and running around Sydney did me no good.
I'm going to do some SST and threshold work this week then maybe take a couple of easy days, then re-test.
Surely 2 months of pretty solid training would've done something???