Tough session on the trainer this evening. More FTP work, longer sets, and because I'm convinced that my FTP should have gone up although I was too racked to do the test, harder intervals. It could have been a very bad night.
But I was able to power through all of the sets. From last week's 4x8 min, we've moved to 3x12. One less interval, but each interval is 150% in length, and the total work time for the day goes up by 4 minutes (12.5%). As I complained above, I believe my FTP should have gone up at least 5% from the last test (from 271 to ~285w). With the sickness, I didn't re-test to confirm this at all, so I'm dumb enough to just go out and assume it. Luckily, I looks like I was right. I was able to hold ~290w for all three work sets. I can't say it was easy, the last couple of minutes of each interval were tests of concentration, but I had the juice to get through. Nice ride. I don't feel completely shattered, but I'm pretty worked.
Heart rate was a bit high again, but I'm not too worried. At similar power levels last week, I was about 10 bpm lower. There's no good reason for such a high rate today, but it was consistent right from warm-up through the work. I'll chalk this up as an anomaly, until I start seeing a more consistent issue. I prefer to think of heart rate as a trend variable. Too many confounding factors for any one observation to have a great deal of meaning, but patterns are worth checking out. And there's no pattern yet.
Bike: 65 minutes, w/3x12 min @ >285w, 3 min recovery
Run: 2 miles @ 7.2 mph
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