After finishing up watching the season finale of Sports Night on DVD this week, this phrase sticks in my head. Quo Vadimus? Latin: Where are we going?
After a long distance week (553 km, 17 1/2 hrs saddle time), next week I start hitting threshold improvement specific workouts again. Pain and suffering. 2x20's, longer/higher L3 work, with some aerobic power/vo2max intervals tossed in the mix just for fun.
The trick is to convince my body that it can do more again. After hitting a sort of plateau in threshold improvement, we'll try to get the body doing new things. I'm actually looking forward to getting some solid 2x20's in this week as it will give me a good feel for my 40km TT power. I'll do those this week on the 40km TT course and that will give me a little bit of a gauge how fast I'm going on that course. I won't be all "aero'd" out, but if I can get sub 15 minute laps on the TT course without the aero gear, it will settle any concerns I have about getting the whole 40km TT in under an hour in September. It's not that I don't think I can do a sub-hour 40km TT. It's that I am wondering if I can do THIS course in under an hour. Lots of turns, times 4. In fact, if you zoom in around the 4 and 6 kilometer marks, you'll see the nice 140 degree turns - one of which is followed by an immediate 90 degree left turn. Not set up for speed.
Anyway....
Hard to believe that June is over half way finished and I'll be travelling to Kyushu in two weekends to race again. I'm not really expecting to blow the socks off anything there. Rather I'm treating it as a good tempo training day. It'll be fun laps on the MotoGP course in Kyushu. For the Google Earth enabled, I drew an overlay of the course on the track and you can download it here: Kyushu Autopolis Circuit
I'd toss some snazzy charts or something exciting up in this post, but there's just not that much to be had. Weight is steady @ 76kg. I'm finishing off a 990 TSS week, heading into a 950 TSS week. CTL up to 113 with the 110 mark gone in the distance. TSB back in the negatives for the foreseeable future as I rebuild for the October/November races. You can see all that on my PMC online, or again download the PMC planner I use to see "where am I going?" (horrible grammar, but anything else wouldn't have fit my post title!)
Safe riding!
VW
After a long distance week (553 km, 17 1/2 hrs saddle time), next week I start hitting threshold improvement specific workouts again. Pain and suffering. 2x20's, longer/higher L3 work, with some aerobic power/vo2max intervals tossed in the mix just for fun.
The trick is to convince my body that it can do more again. After hitting a sort of plateau in threshold improvement, we'll try to get the body doing new things. I'm actually looking forward to getting some solid 2x20's in this week as it will give me a good feel for my 40km TT power. I'll do those this week on the 40km TT course and that will give me a little bit of a gauge how fast I'm going on that course. I won't be all "aero'd" out, but if I can get sub 15 minute laps on the TT course without the aero gear, it will settle any concerns I have about getting the whole 40km TT in under an hour in September. It's not that I don't think I can do a sub-hour 40km TT. It's that I am wondering if I can do THIS course in under an hour. Lots of turns, times 4. In fact, if you zoom in around the 4 and 6 kilometer marks, you'll see the nice 140 degree turns - one of which is followed by an immediate 90 degree left turn. Not set up for speed.
Anyway....
Hard to believe that June is over half way finished and I'll be travelling to Kyushu in two weekends to race again. I'm not really expecting to blow the socks off anything there. Rather I'm treating it as a good tempo training day. It'll be fun laps on the MotoGP course in Kyushu. For the Google Earth enabled, I drew an overlay of the course on the track and you can download it here: Kyushu Autopolis Circuit
I'd toss some snazzy charts or something exciting up in this post, but there's just not that much to be had. Weight is steady @ 76kg. I'm finishing off a 990 TSS week, heading into a 950 TSS week. CTL up to 113 with the 110 mark gone in the distance. TSB back in the negatives for the foreseeable future as I rebuild for the October/November races. You can see all that on my PMC online, or again download the PMC planner I use to see "where am I going?" (horrible grammar, but anything else wouldn't have fit my post title!)
Safe riding!
VW