So they have started to organise a "slow" (aka wrinklies) ride. Followng this I decided I might as well use Sunday mornings for training. Rather than forsake the club ride altogether my plan is to turn up at the usual start point and head for the same mid-point cafe.
However rides will be fast and focussed on providing training benefit with socialising left until the cafe stop.
Tried it out for first time last Sunday and was happy to find a number of other riders wanted to join me. Unfortunately we had a couple of punctures in first half hour which didnt help but after that we made good progress. Post stop some of the riders found it a bit hard going and I eased up a bit. However ride was still a different beast than previous club runs. Average power was 187W/227NW. A more normal is 160W/204W, though we had one "hard" one a few weeks back that was 173W/240NW. This was far from typical however even so the ride last Sunday was a much better training ride for this time of year. The pictures below show why.
On the typical run most of the ride had little or no training benefit with over 50% of time being in recovery. Last Sunday less than 40% of time was spent in this zone and as a result all the other zones got larger. I plan to continue to do "fast" club runs with plan to get even more time out of recovery and into useful work zones
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