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 is also a way to help keep me accountable for my training in the dark days of Winter since I have my loyal readers to update each week 
A Quick Refresher
Basically I track the total time I’ve spent training, the amount of time in the “sweet spot” which is 85%-95% of FTP (functional threshold power) which is 235-265 watts for me currently, the total distance I’ve gone and how much work I did (measured by TSS which comes from the PowerTap computer file). I also keep track of total distance and time spent training year to date. One thing I’ve added this year is “Miles Walked” which is from my walking to/from work. I started walking to help get me some weight bearing exercise in each week. So, here are the numbers from last week:
- Time Spent Training- 8:04
- Time In Sweet Spot- 64 minutes
- Miles Ridden- 91
- Miles Walked-12
- TSS (training stress score)- 468
- Weight- 163
- TSS YTD- 17818
- Total Miles YTD- 4499
- Total Hours YTD- 261
I didn’t do any indoor trainer rides this week but I expect to start them up since daylight savings is going away. That will probably increase my “Sweet Spot” time quite a bit. I will also be doing a test of my fitness in the next couple of weeks once I get used to the trainer again. I’ll also do a quick review of how training with power can be used to build fitness.
