The past several sessions, I've been feeling like I finished the workout with something left on the table. Sure, I worked hard and was happy to be done when the clock reached 1:30:00 - but I had a sense I had more to give - I've been able to do several successive days of interval workouts, which tells me that my recovery has been relatively quick. By extrapolation, I could probably give more during the workouts.
Rather than do another power test, I decided to give a shot to upping my FTP value. They (trainerroad) state that if you feel the workouts are getting easier, to up the FTP by 5W and then see how it adjusts. So thats what I did - I upped it to 230 and did todays workout, McAdie. (at least I thought I hit 230 - it has since recorded a value of 231. Whatever.)
This was another over/under workout, but the interval sets were extended to 12 minutes, as compared to the last over/under (Emerson) which came in at 10 minutes.
I don't know whether it was the 12 minutes, or the FTP change, but I definitely felt it. The one minute over-segments were definitely a stresser (made a little easier by upping the cadence, at the cost of HR), and the two minute under-segments barely felt like recovery until the last 20-30 seconds or so.
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