It's a long, fat, road.

Time to get on the austerity diet. Three days of excessive food and drink were great, but now it's time to burn some of those excess calories.

I'm going to get at least one swim in lane 5 this week ...

Power hassles

So it turns out that my vintage Powertap CPU is, in fact, not compatible with the current generation of USB cradles. Some wrangling with Saris later, I'm having a yellow CPU shipped which is, the customer service rep swears up and down, compatible with both my existing Powertap Classic hub, and the USB cradle I purchased.

The current CPU works just fine, now that I've figured out interval mode ... did my LTHR testing on it last week, 238W/242W for 2x20' intervals, which puts a rough estimate at 230W (woo, just north of 3.0 W/kg). Of course, this is mildly inaccurate, but  close enough to train on for now.

POWER!

Top Gear reference.

First trainer ride with power this morning. Not, however, the first ride with power *and* a USB cradle to download the results to.

Sooo... guessing watts today during my 2x15 were around 210. Hard to tell, that might be optimistic.

Getting back on track

Penultimate week of the OS LTHR period. I'm quite excited about picking up the powertap this weekend, and seeing if I can get it to talk to anything -- serial connection, what's that?

Bike this morning was good, though I was in and out of my target HR. I would shoot way high if I got out of the saddle, and trying to time trial it was okay, but my HR would fall pretty quickly (as per usual) if I let up at all.

Run at lunch was a quicky ... a couple km easy out, 5x30s strides uphill, then slightly faster back to work. TSS++, er, ++.

Sunday's Run

Not pretty, but in the books. Week 7 arrives.

Woot. powermeter next week.

The cold is engaging in a fighting withdrawal

Didn't get the bike done yesterday ... two things prevent me from training in the morning: the boy and his stochastic sleeping "patterns", and illness. I can affect these two things to a small degree, but am more or less at the mercy of them. I'm OK with that, I guess.

Ick

Sleeping vs. training rears its ugly head again. Accompanied by its best friend, the minor cold. Scrubbed the bike this morning.
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