This FaCT thing

[Paul H]

Marco - your observation seems to be saying that if you do slower rides, you feel less tired the next day compared to a harder ride. Surely you didnt need somebody to explain that to you.

[Robh]

Hi Marco,

You could have done the following to find your zones and once you had the info I'm sure somebody on here would have helped you out :-

1) Buy your yourself a cheap HR monitor, find your max HR and use the BCF zones :- http://www.machinehead-software.co.uk/b ... lator.html

2) Get a lactate threshold test done at a uni to find your zones, costs about £150 :- http://www.wmin.ac.uk/biosciences/page-1030

3) Buy a £600 powermeter and test yourself for an hour to find your functional threshold power and then use the Coggan zones for your levels :- http://www.cyclingpeakssoftware.com/power411/levels.asp

Rob

[Sylv]

Yay - the return of FaCT talk I was missing it

So one question for Rob - your LBP has been tested at 165bpm which is the highest within ACC if not mistaken, meaning your LBP -20 rides are done at 145bpm which Sean (and more) would certainly find less boring than riding at 130bpm or less - was that your first test or has your LBP HR increased over time, with the kind of training you had been doing? If it was your first test, would you say there is a chance the kind of training your had been doing might have helped this, or do you think you had always been at 165bpm?

[-Adam-]

[quote="marco"]sean - I don't think there is any such thing as 'boredom' - its more of a label we use to mask something else - normally that there is something else we would rather be doing instead. When you can identify what that thing is and you find out where your motivation lays then you can work out what you should be doing. Eg if you go into lbp rides thinking "this is a waste of a session because i believe that i will only get fast/fit/vicky/successful" (delete as applicable!) if I ride really fast then the motivation isnt there and subconsciously you would rather be doing something else - ergo "boredom"

[Robh]

[quote="Sylv"]Yay - the return of FaCT talk I was missing it

So one question for Rob - your LBP has been tested at 165bpm which is the highest within ACC if not mistaken, meaning your LBP -20 rides are done at 145bpm which Sean (and more) would certainly find less boring than riding at 130bpm or less - was that your first test or has your LBP HR increased over time, with the kind of training you had been doing? If it was your first test, would you say there is a chance the kind of training your had been doing might have helped this, or do you think you had always been at 165bpm?

[-Adam-]

Many things, many things, Marco. But doing the same session on the road, although infinitely more exciting, would have been much less efficient.

That said, you could have put me on the rollers all day on the beach in Barbados with lots of pretty women wandering by...

[Michelle]

Rollers Rule!

I love 'em, Adam, what's your problem ?

[Paul H]

Ive missed the FACT talk as well.

[quote]on saturday I felt good so rode at lbp with long sections spent at lbp+10 as I was so cold I wanted to hurry it up with a fair while spent at lbp+20 whenever the road went uphill. When I got home I felt like s**t. Legs felt heavy and bad, I was reminded of the fatigue I'd suffered from previously and I couldn't face going out to ride the next day, even for fun with mates. I knew I'd overdone it again.

[-Adam-]

[quote="Michelle"]Rollers Rule!

I love 'em, Adam, what's your problem ?

[huw williams]

Saturday 2.00 pm powertap test on the rollers.

Once monthly test - very controlled HR range for 90 mins - measure the power, plot the progress.

Switch the telly on, do a twenty minute warm up by which time the teams are on the pitch

Welsh national anthem starts and immediately the heart rate is soaring above target. settle down, breathe, get it under control. It gets worse - Lee Byrne and Shane Williams combine at the breakdown, tear through the Wallabies defence and Williams goes over. There's stunned Aussies all over Cardiff and after just 4 minutes its Wales 5 Australia 0. By now my Heart rate is almost an annoyance. Every time we unleash another rapier-like flowing move through the backs I'm way above target zones. Byrne goes over just before the half and I'm sprinting on the Champs Elysees

Second half we're defending like lions and its very tense - I'm struggling to keep below sprint levels of intensity as the minutes tick away and we're trading penalties and drop goals. Then Australia score a late try and it's a nail bitter to the end but we hang in for a famous win. My Heart rate is ridiculous, cadence over 110 for an hour - power all over the place.

Rollers boring? If you'd been watching England vs New Zealand maybe

[kieran]

[quote="Robh"]

Feb 08 - April 08 (just before Mallorca trip), off the top of my head it looked like this most weeks but would change depending on fatigue. If my watts was too low for the HR I just ended the session.

Monday.... 2hrs @ 130-132bpm
Tuesday... 2hrs @ 130-132bpm
Wednesday...2hrs @ 130-132bpm
Thursday...off
Friday...2hrs @ 130-132bpm
Saturday ...4.5hrs @ 130-132bpm
Sunday...2hrs @ 130-132bpm

Power was in the 190-205 watt range and cadence around 85-90rpm.
Where's my LBP right now? God knows....

Rob

[Robh]

Yes, the 2 hour sessions were done in one session on a turbo before work @ 4:30am.

[kieran]

[quote="Robh"]Yes, the 2 hour sessions were done in one session on a turbo before work @ 4:30am.

[Robh]

Bedtime is around 11-1130pm.

Am I tired? Sometimes....Who isn't?

[kieran]

people who don't get up at 4:30am after only 5 hours sleep every week day, that's who!