This week was a long one. If you work from Sunday to Saturday, I'm right at 1209 TSS.
I track the following things right now for keeping up with how I feel/what to do.
7 day rolling average TSS
28 day rolling average TSS
Weekly TSS (Mon-Sunday)
Hours/Distance per week.
Here's the stats as of today:
7 day: 201.58
28 day: 146.3
Weekly TSS: 859.7
Hours: 13.4
Distance: 406.6 km
ATL: 154.7
TSB: -42.4
The hours and distance are low compared to last week's 490km and 17 hours. But the TSS rolling 7 day TSS is as high as I've seen yet. I was supposed to do some AC work today, but I just couldn't see it happening and being productive. Part of me feels like a slacker for having backed off on a day, but I know what my legs feel like. They feel like 45 lb weight plates.
I'll get another day off tomorrow and then hit back to the workouts on Tuesday. Looks like rain Tuesday so threshold work on the roads should be fun in that. While I'm not certain, I think my current breaking point is right around that 200TSS 7 day rolling average.
I'll be watching it over the next couple months how that correlates to the CTL for the time. For instance, today CTL is 112.3. Does that mean my "breaking point" is about 90 points above CTL for a 7 day rolling average TSS? "Feeling" the physiological responses to the numbers that training with a powermeter provides is interesting if for nothing else but to help predict responses in the future. If the training plan continues as is, around the 11th of November I should hit roughly the same difference in CTL/7 day rolling average. We'll see how the body feels when it comes time for that.
Merry Christmas and here's hoping everyone receives their wanted/needed biking equipment from Santa, their wife, or whoever - even themselves!
VW
I track the following things right now for keeping up with how I feel/what to do.
7 day rolling average TSS
28 day rolling average TSS
Weekly TSS (Mon-Sunday)
Hours/Distance per week.
Here's the stats as of today:
7 day: 201.58
28 day: 146.3
Weekly TSS: 859.7
Hours: 13.4
Distance: 406.6 km
ATL: 154.7
TSB: -42.4
The hours and distance are low compared to last week's 490km and 17 hours. But the TSS rolling 7 day TSS is as high as I've seen yet. I was supposed to do some AC work today, but I just couldn't see it happening and being productive. Part of me feels like a slacker for having backed off on a day, but I know what my legs feel like. They feel like 45 lb weight plates.
I'll get another day off tomorrow and then hit back to the workouts on Tuesday. Looks like rain Tuesday so threshold work on the roads should be fun in that. While I'm not certain, I think my current breaking point is right around that 200TSS 7 day rolling average.
I'll be watching it over the next couple months how that correlates to the CTL for the time. For instance, today CTL is 112.3. Does that mean my "breaking point" is about 90 points above CTL for a 7 day rolling average TSS? "Feeling" the physiological responses to the numbers that training with a powermeter provides is interesting if for nothing else but to help predict responses in the future. If the training plan continues as is, around the 11th of November I should hit roughly the same difference in CTL/7 day rolling average. We'll see how the body feels when it comes time for that.
Merry Christmas and here's hoping everyone receives their wanted/needed biking equipment from Santa, their wife, or whoever - even themselves!
VW