Weekly Review October 3rd – 9th 2022

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Each week I try to review and reflect on my previous week on the bike. This allows me to see how my fitness and ability is progressing on a wider timescale than day to day. For previous weekly reviews please click here. 

Whilst this week looks like a busy one, when the metrics are evaluated there wasn’t much difference to any other week.

The interesting thing really about this week was that I challenged myself to see the Zwift Academy 2022 through from start to finish. I wasn’t quite sure if I’d manage it, but in the end I did.

However, that did mean doing the shorter workouts in order to fit everything in. Looking at the longer variants, I don’t think I missed out on much though.

Here are this week’s rides:

On completing the Base Line ride I was, apparently, supposed to receive an email where the computer brains at Zwift had analysed my ride and determined my phenotype.

I never got that email, and truthfully I forgot all about it after Tuesday.

Whilst on my dinner break today I received an email from Zwift which I’ve cut / pasted above. Sorry about the formatting.

Anyway, it turns out they think I’m a pursuiter. However, they have a page about Phenotypes and here’s the interesting bits from my pov:

The first screenshot is what a Pursuiter is, and the second is what are the strengths / weaknesses.

I’m not sure I feel the same about the kryptonite comment.

I guess at the end of the day it’s all fun trivia, but I’m nothing more than a keen hobbyist. It doesn’t matter what I’m good or bad at, so long as I enjoy it.

And I did enjoy the week. It was great to have structure, and even more fun not to be at risk of being run over by a car or angry lorry driver.

I’m really glad to have managed to make my way through all the sessions in a limited time frame and get stuck back in to Zwift good and proper.

The question now is what to do next.

I’ve already said I will do the longer variations of the ZA2022 workouts, but I’m not going to prioritise them over other things.

I’m hoping to structure my weeks similarly to how I was doing outdoors.

That means two hard week day efforts, and a more tempo or endurance effort sandwiched between.

Whether that means a hard workout or a race, I don’t know yet. But I am keen to get racing.

On the weight front the last few days I’ve been continually trending upwards. I couldn’t say why as nothing has changed.

Actually that may not be quite true – the one thing that has changed is to move indoors, and the Garmin graph above does show a down trend in the overall training load.

Interesting.

But still, I hover between 67 and 68kg, and have Zwift set at 68kg, so no changes required.

Ideally I’d like to get stuck into some kind of event series. I haven’t yet had a look at what’s on, and I can’t commit to a full months schedule as I have other commitments later this month that would screw that up.

However, as above, the plan is to do basically the same schedule as I was on outdoors.

But yeah, overall a good week. Feels good to have said I’ll do something and seen it through from start to finish.

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