10-12wk FTP Builder Week 4 Day 2

For tonight’s ride I went with something slightly different, though still in the same vein as usual with the FTP Builder rides. This was a fairly low intensity ride, though a bit beyond the usual long blue zone segments. To be honest, I just wanted a bit of variety, and ideally, to hit 30km in … Read more

Riding Home For Christmas

Christmas Jumper on, lights on the trees, and finally a bit of feeling returning to my legs. All in time for a nice rest day (tomorrow) and the new Star Wars film to enjoy. Fantastic. OK, so it’s been a high stress week in terms of bike activity. On Tuesday I did my second ever … Read more

Not Enough Watts To Keep The Lights On

For tonight’s ride I opted for a repeat of one of the previous FTP Builder sessions I’ve done before: 6 minutes @ 130w 2 minutes @ 100w Repeated 6 times. After Sunday’s ride I was in too minds all day as to whether to take on a more intensive session (likely SST), or go for … Read more

Calm Before The Storm

For this afternoon’s ride I opted for an FTP Builder session, repeating Week 9 Day 1. This is a fairly long session at about 1.5 hours, and largely consists of two blocks: 25 min at 130w 10 min at 100w And repeat twice. There’s a 10 minute warm up and a 5 minute cool down. … Read more