Saturday was a little cooler than expected, however that did not stop the milkbottle legs from dazzling drivers as they screamed past me. The suntan lotion (kids - all I could find in the house) also had extra whitening in so between the original state of my legs and the suncream I must have been the brightest rider out. For the ride I ended up just riding anywhere with no real set route, appart from the one hill climb that I wanted to do. THH of 117 over 1h 13 with an IF of 0.977 was a little higher than I thought and will need to adjust my threashold.
Later on I took Luke out on his bike to the park the park, so had a gentle 45min afterwards (TSS of 15.8).
Sunday ride consistend of the usual 3 stages - to the meeting point - cafe stop - home.
Cutting out the first few mins the norm power for the cafe run was NP 257W, avg 204W, 31.7kph. I did have the original intention of going out for a ride with the moderate group to take it easy and ended up in the fast group.
The homeward leg has a few different points with a couple of reasonable hills included. After someone had a puncture the next 32 min were at 31.5kph but NP319W, avg 264W with 126m of climbing. The homeward leg in total was NP287W, avg 214W at 31.9kph.
For the ride as a whole the TSS was higher than the ride to work and back at 270 with a similar intensity factor, although the ride has pushed my cumulative training stress very negative (time for an easy week...). I did set a new personal record 60sec avg wattage of 512W but my 5 min was 392W, still down on last year, although I still need to run another analysis with the iMagic vs Ergomo to verify what is what.
The 5 min power was set on one of the climbs where I thought I would give it go a bit and try and keep up with Matt (cat 2 rider) who promptly ride off into the distance leaving me gasping for air. The first 2 min of the climb was at 448W avg.
Overall felt good, better that I thought, although I do need to ease off this week to recover properly. Time to do some spinning on the rollers.
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