Finally got back on the turbo last night, things were damn cold! -2 in my garage again, even after plugging a little radiator in at lunchtime and leaving it on low! I rode on the turbo in overshoes! No joke!
Weirdly started on the turbo with just as many layers as I'd ride with outside - thermal shorts with leg warmers and trackies over the top. Base layer, jersey, long sleeve jersey and winter thermal jersey. Snood/face cover, headband and wooly hat! Stripped off layers as I rode but didn't overheat/melt at any point!
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Did 'The Wringer' on Zwift. Chose this one as a test of my current fitness, as I'm semi-ill/recovering and need to get some volume and regularity into my turbo riding. I maybe should've done an FTP test, but I'm almost certainly going to use an FTP plan for the regularity side of things and many of those start with an FTP test or have it early on. Wringer's 12* 445W 30s intervals I found ok, some tyre slip but ERG mode on the Vortex Smart handles it well so I could hit them. The reducing time 110W gaps between each interval I found more tricky, mostly over powering them at 125-135W. This is mostly due to my FTP details/settings from an outdated test (from my old turbo). The reduced recovery time was ok, it's only in the last couple that I started to hurt but even then
backing off to hit 110W didn't feel like it made much of a difference. Felt good at the end and was elongating my cooldown with a bit of a freeride.
During cool-down I bumped into a local guy I know also doing a cool-down,
we did a bit of a 2up to practice riding alongside, worked well but he also fancied a sprint... He's much more powerful than me but with him acting as a bit of a lead out I was able to sprint past and hold him off with
500W for 20s or so. My legs were empty and both leaving so called it a night.
