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Target power was 320-333 with actual 328, 333 and 341. Will do a long ride tomorrow and then take off Sunday through Tuesday. 

Saw her featured in the ACE Fitness magazine at their annual IDEA Fitness conference. Some very tough exercises! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_qa1smc8Ho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyDuYI1JhR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piamNo6mbDw

Two hours of class plus the commute to and from the club are show below. Desired goals for the HR zones were hit. I’m not looking for too much in the red but plenty in the yellow. We had a good stretch in the circuit class (second half of the chart) with an extended yellow.

Not a great time but power was ok. Overall, 333 watts, 90 rpms and 27 mph. First half was 335, 28 mph, second half was 336, 26.5. That turn really knocks it all down a notch or two. Definitely shows that doing the hour strength and plyo class on Monday night is detrimental to a

An endurance effort but I couldn’t let that one minute effort unresolved. Added a few more watts to the record with a new all-time best of 614. I think 620+ is possible. Not that that is in anyway critical to my time trial goals, just personally fun and motivating.

Took three days off the bike after the century on Saturday. Started back today with two classes and headed to the mountains to do some hiking and biking. Good to have the break after a season of races and big miles. Will have more coming up interspersed with interval days. 

Due to the rain I rode inside for a couple of hours. I was going to go for a new 1 minute PR (611+) and did some build up to that but 32 seconds into the minute I was at 630 so I bailed on it thinking I had to actually be closer to 640.

I do think that in time trials the higher wts/kg given similar aerodynamics does win