Its been and interesting week week. Four training sessions, two indoors on Wattbikes at Cadence Performance (Crystal Palace) and two on the roads of South London. All of them started before 7am with me on my Giant Defy 3.
Thanks to Jack (Tuesday) and Rob (Thursday) the Wattbike sessions have seemed more brutal than the FTP test a couple of weeks ago. Tuesday's interval session of sprints followed by 4 x 4 minute 'zone five' efforts followed by max sprints seemed bad https://www.strava.com/activities/517479725 until Thursday, when Rob decided that it would be 10 max out sprint sessions in 40 minutes https://www.strava.com/activities/519164974 But, each of these tortures did have the appropriate warm up and cool down sessions.
What have I learned? First, I can keep going even when I thought there was no more to give; second my legs will turn the pedals at 154 rpm if I try hard enough, that will generate 740 watts and sent my heart to 160 bpm and I can still ride home afterwards.
Then finally the 'inside out effect' is that my road session this morning on my standard 18.6 mile training route, while not fast, was the fastest I have ever managed at an average of 15.7 mph in the gospel according St.Rava! https://www.strava.com/activities/519975588
Hopefully this will turn into Ride London in about five hours (dream on) and keeping up with the fast group on the Paris ride.
The whole enterprise is so I can raise £2000 for medical reseach by Bloodwise into Blood Cancer. Please do visit my justgiving page https://www.justgiving.com/Stephen-Maxted2/ I am 15% towards my goal of £2000 and would really value your support.
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