short-term burnt out...

Monday evening:

Got to the bike shop after work to start the first class of the 2nd six week Computrainer 90 minute winter class session. Now that I’m back on the ‘ole Cannondale specifically for trainer purposes the good news from that is I have all my Polar telemetry back via my infamous chart; HR, distance, cadence and speed…yeah! Tonight’s class was its usual drills, intervals, stomps, etc but at a slight higher and longer intensity. Since I took my FTP test the day before and my average wattage was now set at 263 I would be training myself now for the next level of cycling performance. As my legs & body were still flogged from the previous 5 days of running/cycling training I did my best to attempt to train this night at my 263 watt setting for class but at about 25 minutes into class I had to have the coach turn my training down to 220 watts if I was going to survive the 90 minute class. As I was able to ride better at this point I recovered to the point were with 25 minutes left in class I had Coach Linda turn the wattage up slightly to 235 watts which was fine for the remaining portion of class.

My max wattage for a standing stomp came in at 740 watts…that’s down from the previous week’s wattage but I was now back on the old bike again which has 650cc wheels and they don’t make sticky trainer tires for that size wheel like I have on the 700cc Ridley…excuses ;-) My average HR for the 90 minute class came in at 115bpm with a max during a stomp of 141bpm. My average cadence was low for me during the class at 82rpm and a max cadence during the first spin-up drill of 136rpm as my average pace for the ride was at 16.8mph and max of 30.6mph during the second spin-up drill.

Below is my techy Polar chart which verifies via my average HR & max HR that I’m presently over-training and not recovering properly…stubbornness I guess but I have forced myself to take complete rest days for any sort of running and/or biking on Tuesday & Wednesday of this week to recharge my batteries :-)

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