My Hour Of Pain Pays Off

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 [...] Read more »

Weekly Update For January 18th, 2009

Week In Review Time Spent Training- 4:44 Time In Sweet Spot-   103 minutes Miles Ridden- 91.8 TSS (training stress score)- 353 Weight- 165 TSS YTD-  1063 Total Miles YTD- 263 Total Hours YTD-  14:23 This week was a very good week.  I did my 2nd FTP test of the Winter on Saturday and posted some [...] Read more »

My Latest FTP Test Results

On Saturday I checked my fitness by doing yet another FTP test.  The last test I did, in November, was OK but not what I had hoped for.  This time I was determined to do better.  I have been doing most of my indoor workouts over the last month on my “time trial” setup which [...] Read more »

Test Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow will be FTP test day for me and I hope to get an “A”.  This will be the second test this Winter training season.  My last test, in November, was OK but not great.  I’m hoping the last couple of months of training have helped. The Test Protocol The format for the FTP test [...] Read more »

My Upcoming FTP Test

This Saturday I hope to complete my first FTP test since March.  I tried this back in August with terrible results.  I hope to do a lot better on Saturday. The Test Protocol The format for the FTP test I use is straight out of Training And Racing With A Power Meter.  Many people use [...] Read more »