By Mark on February 14, 2010
Lots Of Watts
I just got done with a workout on the old Kurt Kinetic trainer in the basement that I was planning on doing all of this last week. It looked like the weather was going to be cold/snowy today so I decided I’d test my fitness by doing a hard 60 minute interval to [...]
Posted in Bike, Training, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged aerobics, FTP test, Heart rate based training, Training with power
By Mark on January 16, 2010
Alright, 2009 is in the books and I finally got all of my rides entered and logged. The result is the following video which shows a little more detail of all the bike riding I did in 2009, my best year yet as far as distance and time spent riding. It was also a record [...]
Posted in Bike, Training, Training Updates
By Mark on November 30, 2009
The Last Week Of The Month
Sorry I didn’t get an update for two weeks ago up but the Thanksgiving holiday got in the way a bit. I’ll summarize that week plus this most recent week all in one exciting post!:
Week ended November 22nd
Time Spent Training- 5:28 (bike only)
Time In Sweet Spot- 117 minutes
Miles Ridden- 102
Miles [...]
Posted in Bike, Health and Fitness, Training, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged Training Tips, Training with power
By Mark on November 15, 2009
The Best Laid Plans
Well, this week ended up not being what I wanted but there wasn’t much I could do about it. I had business meetings/dinners Monday and Tuesday so I was planning on riding inside Wed and Thurs then outside on the weekend. But, we had a ton of rain on Tuesday (4+ inches) [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Training, Training Updates | Tagged walking to work, yoga
By Mark on November 11, 2009
Sorry for the delay with this. I was hoping to get it posted Tuesday evening but we became preoccupied with some minor flooding in our basement as a result of the 4+ inches of rain we got yesterday! We were able to prevent any damage to the drywall, etc. but we had to stay up [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Training, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged Training with power, walking to work
By Mark on November 2, 2009
Back On The Trainer
This past week was the 1st one this Fall where I have done indoor trainer workouts. I rode the trainer Tues-Thurs. Not big rides but 30-40 minutes each night in the 240-255 watt range, which gave me a big boost in “sweet spot” time. If you notice below I had 30% more [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged Training with power, walking to work
By Mark on October 27, 2009
Week In Review
Ok, It’s been a while (7 months I’m embarrassed to say) but I’m going to start up my weekly training reviews again. These are a way for you people who are interested in fitness training to see how I am doing on a week to week basis and maybe get some ideas. It [...]
Posted in Health and Fitness, Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged functional threshold power, Powertap, Training with power, walking to work
By Mark on March 12, 2009
Here is the (a bit late) recap of last weeks training:
Week In Review
Time Spent Training- 7:00
Time In Sweet Spot- 190 minutes
Miles Ridden- 129
TSS (training stress score)- 480
Weight- 163
TSS YTD- 3520
Total Miles YTD- 932
Total Hours YTD- 51:00
This was a good week in a number of ways. I had the longest week, in terms of training [...]
Posted in Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged 3 state 3 mountain century, road bike training
By Mark on March 3, 2009
Week In Review
Time Spent Training- 3:44
Time In Sweet Spot- 116 minutes
Miles Ridden- 72
TSS (training stress score)- 251
Weight- 163
TSS YTD- 3040
Total Miles YTD- 802
Total Hours YTD- 44:00
Last week was a bit of a disappointment. I was signed up to do a time trial on Saturday, February 28, but didn’t race due to the weather. I woke [...]
Posted in Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged Training Updates
By Mark on February 25, 2009
Week In Review
Time Spent Training- 5:37
Time In Sweet Spot- 148 minutes
Miles Ridden- 106
TSS (training stress score)- 418
Weight- 164
TSS YTD- 2788
Total Miles YTD- 730
Total Hours YTD- 40:16
This was a fairly typical week. I rode indoors on Tuesday-Thursday and outside on the weekend.
Tuesday-60 minutes total with 40 minutes at 90% of FTP
Wednesday-60 total minutes with 40 minutes [...]
Posted in Training Updates, Training with power | Tagged spinervals, weekly ride summary
