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I had planned on 10 of these but felt good so I was going to add two more. Got a flat tire after the #11 so rode home after giving it some air. Power was ok at 460w avg with 20:00 at 360w NP.

Rode the indoor TT on Sunday and had my slowest time ever. HR was at 171 avg for 16:00, super high. Turns out that the calibration on the CompuTrainer was way off. If nothing else I got in a super high HR effort as I struggled to get the power up, ro I thought I

I rode 4000m x 3 with a few minutes between plus 1x 1k. The 4000m efforts were 335, 326 and 310 and the 1k was 420w. Feeling good but power just isn’t there. All of this inside riding can be tedious.

Afetr a warmup I did 5 efforts on a 1.86 mile Rouvy course. Power averaged from 328 to 344w. Efforts each took about 4:30-4:40. I took 2 minutes between each. Chart shows that I could have worked harder. HR was into the low 170’s by the end of each.

After a warmup I did 30s on 15s off X 10 at 427w avg, then 2 min easy, then 2 min on 1 min off x 3, then 2 min easy at 360w avg, then 1 min on and off x 3 at 412w avg and then 5 min easy and then 5 min at

Its been a busy week. I did some endurance miles on Monday, taught an hour strength class that day and today, have spent 7 hours clearing honeysuckle so far this week, rode moreendurance yesterday and did intervals today. Actually today started with a 12 mile Rouvy course. I spent 10 minutes at 290 and 20

After a pretty light week due to some illness and a long 12 mile hike yesterday, I did 30 seconds on and off X 25 today. Average power was 417 for all 25, 425 for the last 15 and 430 for the last 10. Best I have felt in a couple of weeks.

While taking some online courses for my USAC Cycling Coaches CEU requirements, I found this interesting one on the aging athlete. Nothing too surprising but just re-affirms the inevitable decline in power, especially after age 60. Keeping up with the strength training, keeping the high intensity training on the calendar and, limiting the accumulation of

A warm day with a noon temperature in the 60’s so I headed out to get in some intervals. Did 8:00 at 325 quickly followeed by 4:00 at 328 and then 30sec at 432, 477 and 508. All with about 30sec to a minute between.

With the large turnout expected at this Sundays first Indoor TT, I wanted to keep track of my two age group records. I suspect the 50-59 will fall.