Week 14

Tuesday: Hell Hath No Fury with the main sets at > 250 watts. Stage 1 NP 250W. Stage 2 NP 253W. Stage 3 NP 254W. Stage 4 NP 289W. The bright point of the workout? Everytime Emilia Fahlin comes on screen. Such a CUTIE-PIE!!! Unfortunately, she only turns up like 2 times. But motivation enough to stay on the trainer. 100 TSS points.

Wednesday: A Very Dark Place for the usual threshold + VO2max combo. But instead of the typical 5 sets at the highest VO2max I could do, decided to add a twist to the workout. Wanted to see how many sets I can do at 290 watts before I threw up my lunch. Turns out the answer is 7 sets! AP for the sets were 295W, 293W, 295W, 294W, 293W, 296W, 294W. Pretty damn hard in my book. 100 TSS points.

Saturday: Rode Sempah at 145 pm! Right smack in the middle of the afternoon! And for good reason. I had to send Lin off at the airport in the morning. Her flight was supposed to leave at 845, and I would have been able to get out at a decent hour. But it was retimed to 1245 so I got back a bit later. Was still determined to ride as it was supposed to be part of a 4 day block in conjunction with CNY holidays. Ideal conditions allowed me to push hard all the way. Created a PB (both time and power) from the Sg. Rumput sign to the workshop. NP 262W for 38:30! Coming back down was a bit iffy thanks to the broken cable stop, wet roads and plenty of cars on the back roads thanks to CNY traffic. 200 TSS points.

Sunday: A Belgian hardman day! It started off pleasantly enough from the 1-Utama junction/ But as we turned into Bukit Jelutong the heavens opened up and we were soaked to the bone in seconds. Waited with the BJCC crew at AI for the rain to subside. But after 45 minutes with no signs of abating and the official ride called off, we headed out anyway since we were wet and still would have had to ride back home anyhow. A pretty steady and sometime easy-ish day thanks to a slower newbie. Rode GCE – Latar – Ijok – Latar – GCE. It poured nearly all the way until the return leg on Latar. A NP of 195 watts put this on the upper end of a Zone 2 ride.

Planned for it to be a 5 ride week. But Friday morning's planned ride with JK to Sempah before work was rained out. Had to settle for a 4 ride week. 630 TSS points.