training

Wimpier 2×20’s

I did my standard 2×20 workout today. It felt slightly harder than Saturday’s set and the wattage confirmed it. It wasn’t super hard, but I

Reversing the CTL Trend

My Chronic Training Load (CTL) has stalled and even regressed a bit since taking my new job with Microsoft, but I finally feel like I’m

Slightly Over-Reached

This week I paid for my Double Day last Saturday. Each time I got on the bike since then my legs weren’t liking it and

Double Day

Felt really good this morning so I decided to do my first structured VO2max workout. I only plan on doing one VO2 workout every couple

Snow

Woke up to a beautiful clear sky and fresh snow on the ground. Did some shoveling as part of my warm-up then jumped on the

Weekend LT Work

With my new job I’m having a hard time getting in quality workouts during the week so I’m shooting for two good ones this weekend.

Happy New Year!

Started off the New Year with the standard workout: 2x20s. I was able to produce decent wattage for both. Let’s see if I can continue

Keep Those 2×20’s Coming

More of the same old, same old; two 20-minute Lactate Threshold (LT) intervals with five minutes rest in between. Legs felt a little weak but

1×30

Trying to catch up around the house and get some stuff set up at work so I had to compress my workout today. After a

Good Thing We Brought a Trainer

So it’s supposed to be warmer down here in southern Utah, but this week it’s not warmer by much! Glad I got my long-ish road

Riding on Christmas Eve Day

We’re down in St George again for Christmas  with Heather’s mom, sister and niece. This time we brought a better bike to ride. We shipped

More LT Work

Another 2×20 workout today. I don’t know if it’s due to riding in a cold garage, but I always seem to generate more power on

90/90/90…in Reverse

Today I did a variant of the 90/90/90 workout I did a few weeks ago. This time I did the L6 intervals first, VO2 second

December MAP Test #2

Today I tried to do another Maximal Aerobic Power (MAP) test and it didn’t go so well. I only managed a meager 376 watts! I

1×40 LT

When I started riding today my legs felt awful! I spun easy for five minutes but it didn’t seem to get better. So I did

More Stair-step LT’s

After a couple easy days, I’m back to doing some LT work. Today I did 2×20’s, varying cadence every two minutes. I call then “stair-step”

Recovery Ride

I can see how people think I’m some kind of masochist since I only seem to do super-hard workouts, but that’s just because I don’t

Warm, Cold, Warm

Another warm day here in the Treasure Valley so I set out to do a long ride. I was initially planning to go west to

Day at the Track

Today we took a quick trip to the LA Velodrome so Heather could get some track time in before the USA Cycling Talent Pool Qualifier