Grey day

Busy at the workplace of late.

Workouts continue to be super. Perspective is in check. Life is good for the moment.

Training stuff 5/30/2008

I've been noticing that my leg strength is a little lacking on the bike. Anytime I have to shift up and churn out a hard gear, I fatigue pretty quickly.

So I'm going to fix that.

Toward the overall goal of increasing power at threshold, I shortened my normal goal of 5-6 x 8' @ 300W to 4 x 6' @ 310W and made it a point to do some big gear/low cadence work in a couple of intervals.

Average Power was 309, 314, 309, 295
Average HR was 168, 172, 172, 170 for the interval

Ran a 50:17 @ 100-110 rpm for the first two exclusively.
Switched to a 50:15 @ 85-90rpm with 2' to go in set 3.
Started set 4 at 50:15 @85-90 rpm and switched to 50:14 @ 70-75rpm with 1' to go.

My legs were trashed afterwards.

Overall I was pleased with the effort. An extra 10-20 watts over what I usually was pushing for an 8' set. My heartrate was getting above 178 for the last minute or so. But what's a little anaerobic work between friends?