Winter Cycling Training – Day 1 of Week 5

Another hard day on the trainer.

Today’s workout called for some serious efforts. The warm up intervals were doable, but the main set intervals were very, very hard. The workout called for one minute efforts at 115% or 313 watts, then one minute at 191 watts. I could barely do the intervals, but I met the requested efforts on all five intervals. My lowest average wattage was 316 walls, barely over the 313, but over. However, to do this I could not maintain the requested “recovery efforts” As you can see, each of my rest recovery efforts was lower than the preceding one.

My cold is still with me, and I do believe that this is cause of my having to work so hard.