Been quite busy lately, what with Easter, work, training, and now nightly rehearsals for the next show at the theater. So here’s a little update on the training routine…

After some disappointment at the Canal TT (the competition was the strongest I’ve seen in a M30+ TT, but I still think I could have gone better than I did), I have had some stellar training days the past week and a half. We’ve begun our weekly Wednesday group ride, which generally consists of strong 1-2min pulls and a few 2-5min VO2 efforts on the longer hills. I have also been doing the 1min bridging efforts and 2min “hill attacks”(similar to the bookends from the plan), and of course continuing the FTP work as well.

Some significant power numbers from training during this period:

Best 1min power: 617 W. This is 23 W off my all-time best, but on 0.1 w/kg lower.
Best 2min power: 440 W. About 10 W below my best, which was 350 W in March.
Best 5min power: 392 W. 3 watts off my best, but probably higher in w/kg.
Best 20min power: 348 W. New all-time best. Further confirms my FTP estimate of 325W, which was based on 60-min NP.

I’ve hit 4 out of my 10 best 60-min NP markers in the past 10 days as well. So while the TT biking is going okay, the road biking seems to really be taking off.