Training for 2008 Season Starts Today!

Today was the official start day for my 2008 racing season. Hunter Allen uploaded my training to TrainingPeaks on Saturday and we discussed and refined it yesterday. Everything looks good and I dread Thanksgiving week as the blocks for the week have me doing 4 hours on Monday and 4 hours on Tuesday, 1.5 hours of subLT on Wednesday, off Thursday and Friday and back to 4 hours on Saturday and 4 hours on Sunday. That amounts to over 17 hours on the bike. I better stock up on Chamois Butter and PowerBars as I'll be going through quite a bit that week.

My plan actually started yesterday but I was scheduled for an Active Recovery day and completely off the bike. Hunter wanted me doing at least 6 hours over the weekend but I was only able to muster 3 as life got into the way. Before the ride, WKO+ PMC had my TSB at+7 and CTL at 57. The plan for today was to ride 45 minutes in a range that amounted to 85 - 95% of my FTP which is estimated to be around 260W. After a 15 minute warm up and 3 minutes at 115% of FTP, I started the 45 minute interval. I must say, I felt great today. Not sure if it was the positive TSB, excitement of starting the season/plan, or possibly the Hornet Juice I added to my water bottle, but either way, I managed an avg power of 245W for the 45 minutes and had plenty in the tank. Racked up 1210kj of work in 98 minutes, covered 32.3 miles and had a TSS of 122 with an IF of 0.863.