I'm not entirely sure what my CTL is but I'm fairly certain it's less than 100.
In August I'm doing Lands End to John O'Groats in 2 weeks which will mean at least 4 hours on the bike per day for 14 days. Now even if you cycle for 4 hours at 40% of FTP (walking pace ) you're still going to accumulate 160 TSS for two weeks. But it's low intensity so it's not really going to raise your FTP very much.
Does this mean that by the end of the two weeks I'll be technically overtrained? Last time I did it I felt better in the second week than the first. And after all that low intensity exercise would I be best spending the two weeks after the trip hammering some hard L4 and L5 intervals perhaps, with days off in between?
In August I'm doing Lands End to John O'Groats in 2 weeks which will mean at least 4 hours on the bike per day for 14 days. Now even if you cycle for 4 hours at 40% of FTP (walking pace ) you're still going to accumulate 160 TSS for two weeks. But it's low intensity so it's not really going to raise your FTP very much.
Does this mean that by the end of the two weeks I'll be technically overtrained? Last time I did it I felt better in the second week than the first. And after all that low intensity exercise would I be best spending the two weeks after the trip hammering some hard L4 and L5 intervals perhaps, with days off in between?