Week 13

Abandoning the SBD seems to have made quite a good impression on the legs. Some quality workouts during the week and on the weekend. The weekends was short-ish but hard rides to keep something in the legs. The next three weeks will be all about smashing myself to bits, with plenty of public holidays and the wife being away in Europe.

Tuesday: Hell Hath No Fury as it was intended to be. Have never done 2 x 20 ever on the trainer so this was sort of a benchmark on where to go from here onwards. Was targeting ~240W for the 20 minute sets and ended up with 247W and 246W. Next up: 250W. 95 TSS points.

Wednesday: A Very Dark Place never fails to get me totally cross-eyed for the intervals. Managed to make it ascending power levels across all 5 intervals AP 293W, 297W, 300W, 305W and 307W. Was really seeing stars at the end. 80 TSS points.

Thursday: A high-ish Zone 3 day. Warmed up to the opening of Angels and did the Over/Under for NP of 232W, which in hindsight was a bit high. Then 2 x 20 @ Zone 3 NP 224W and 223W. Was thinking about bagging it midway through the 2nd interval but found something in the tank to push through. 80 TSS points.

Saturday: Did Sempah with the Flanders gang sans Terry. Wasn’t planning on doing any intervals as this was a low-ish TSS/intensity week as prep for the upcoming three hard weeks. Was supposed to go to Bentong as my long ride but wasn’t feeling too good at the start. Promised myself that if I managed to stick to Leonard’s wheel all the way up, I didn’t have to go to Bentong. As well I didn’t. on the way back, my pedal totally separated from the spindle just after the Penchala tunnel, so I had to pedal back on one leg. I could only imagine what could have happened if that occurred just as I was coming back near the Hot Springs *shudder*. Set a PB for time up Sempah trailing Leonard. Pretty happy with how it turned out. 200 TSS points.

Sunday: Sempah again, but this time with P2K. This time instead of chasing Leonard, it was do-or-die sticking with Danny Feng. Kenny went balls to the wall from the start of the climb so that definitely took something out of the tank. Got gapped slightly at the steeper pitch around 22 minutes in. Half decided to bag it but chased on again. Was dropped for good at the 3 km to go steep pitch. Hung on to Leonard until the world’s hardest right turn. Two consecutive PB’s on two consecutive days. SCORE!!! The ride back was a free for all on MRR2. Had a go coming up to the LDP toll and again on the slight downhill to the 1-Utama intersection. I’m never going to be able to outsprint Adli, but a fun push nevertheless. 225 TSS points.

675 TSS points. Does not come across as an easy week, does it? But nevertheless, the two shorter weekend rides hopefully didn’t put the legs through too much and sets up the tone for a good three week block. With CTL at 93.6 TSS/day after today's rest day, I'm hoping to push it to above 100 TSS/day after three weeks. Hello pain, suffering and sore legs...