After last year’s sessions in December (although not completed as planned) have given me some confidence what to expect when finished, I was actually positively surprised what came up out of them.
Out of six weeks of training I’ve managed to complete five. Without loosing a day. Consistency pays up apparently not only on paper. The last sessions were challenging and have pushed me to work hard till the end. This is what in my opinion distinguishes unstructurized “passive” pedalling during an average weekend coffee ride from a real training, that will give you meaningful results.
After these couple of weeks I had to take more than a week off the bike, so sat on the saddle fresh and full of optimism. And to be honest I were not disappointed. The whole session was not super easy planned, but went really well. I could easily reach all the % threshold values in every interval and even unintentionally a couple of times broke the grip on the roller when changing pace dramatically.
This gives me nice motivation to continue with the training approach as before.
But I also decided to modify one thing. I decided to cancel my TrainingPeaks premium subscription and head to Zwift. That should be a purely cosmetic decision, as modelling workouts in both tools has a similar mode of complexity, but shoudl add a bit of challenge and interactiveness to the trainings. That is mostly because I do not ride listening to anything on the turbo trainer, so I can focus all attention on one task only properly.
Because of this decision I cannot show the results from this session (last on the TrainingPeaks) the same way as before, so this way has to suffice:
I’ve had real fun in this sesstion and felt really much power in the legs, nearly no stress in them even after the ond of the session. Let it last like this as long as possible!
I hope this was not just a matter of a good day, but an indication how persistent actions can lead to meaningful results. Trainings and climbing sessions will be very interesting this year.
From next week a new year, new goals and new chaleenges! Cheers!
Cover photo courtesy of Victor Xok on Unsplash
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