September week 1

So first week back training:

13 hour week, mostly bike focused, with one 6hour MTB ride at the end. Felt tired come the end

Weight - 82.9kg (7.9kg above RW)

FTP: 297W (untested in last month)

Peak hour: 254W (untested of late)

Planning a 20 min TT this week on the erg in work (probably Thursda

y) and swim times in pool on Wed.

Stats time:

Just been playing with Golden Cheetah for the last few days as it makes access to some metrics allot easier than WKO+ (thinking of shifting to it for my own use, not coaching). So decided to look at all my data since i've been using power. Then said 'hmm wonder how my FPT has been going',as suspected nice upward trend. But then me thinks, 'well IM needs at least hour or more power so lets look at that, and sure lets look at the speeds too'

Very happy to see this, tight cluster over the last year around the same point, this is all my data not race specific, measured over week averages. Some major outliers in the speed, so kinda ignoring it, but similar trend. Will have a look at some other things, but happy to see its all going well. Even more interesting to see when you look at it over years:

Working with Rich we started to focus on my hour power (red) so hence the increase from 2007 - 2009. This summer i maintained the work i had done with him (needed a personal training break) and started to focus on my main limitation in MTBing which was my 10(Green) and 20mins (Dark blue) (lap 1 on a 24 hr race, or 3 laps on a CX race). Great to see an increase here (and in 60mins) but a little concerned in the 30mins power (light blue).

Something to think about over the coming months. Wonder if i can get a metric for 3hrs.....