Bike Fitness Looking Good
4.02.2008
My recovery week went well. Pretty uneventful. Mostly light, short duration training sessions to facilitate recovery during the week. Saturday I got out for a 75 minute trail run. Legs were feeling good. Sunday I headed over to Lookout Mountain for an FTP (functional threshold power) test on the cross-bike. Basically it’s an LT field test to determin my LT power and HR on the bike and test my current fitness on the bike.
The results: 21:48 (cross-bike, mind you), 325 avg power, 167 avg HR. This translates to an FTP of 310 watts.
I’ll take it considering it was quite cold and I’m only finishing up my second of three blocks of base training. This week I’m back into full training mode with increasingly higher volume. Also this week I’ll begin to add in some higher intensity tempo and near LT efforts. Good stuff. Fitness is coming along and I’m as motivated as ever!