Yet another Tuesday, and another workout with Coach Troy. And once again, I got all kinds of blown up. I got a pretty good workout, and mostly hit my targets, but could barely pedal during the recoveries. It was way too much of a fight to get through. I've figured out part of the problem, though. See, I looked at last week's workout, and planned my numbers for tonight. For some reason, I figured that every rep should be 10-30 watts higher than last time. That would be an improvement of 3-10%. How could I possibly reason that I should improve by 5% in a week? Most people would be happy to improve 5-10% over the course of a season, and I expected that in a week? That's just insane. So next time I cycle through a set of workouts, I need slightly more realistic expectations. Blowing myself up every couple of weeks chasing impossible wattage can't be that good an idea.
PS- I think I scared my wife and father-in-law during the workout. They were both more than a little concerned that I was doing myself some damage. I think they were right.
Run: 2.5 miles, ez
Bike: Spinervals 3.0 - Suffer-O-Rama, 60 minutes
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