2018 Week 3 – It is not about being hard, it is about being effective and determined to reach your goal. When your body tells you to slow down for a few days, listen. Total TSS: 94 Total Time: 1 hr 12 min TSS/Hour: 78,3 Last week was all about listening to my body. My daughter had her first day in daycare and promptly brought a runny nose home with her. Now and then she sleeps in our bed with…
2018 Week 2 – If you think you need some fancy new equipment, print it out or write it down and put it somewhere safe along with the money. Wait four weeks and reconsider. Total TSS: 528 Total Time: 7 hr 48 min TSS/Hour: 67,6 A full week of working out. I did not have a rest day because I didn´t feel like taking one. Fatigue isn´t that bad and I could hit all my workouts (except one) with full…
As you all know I ran the Frankfurt Marathon last year. My race report can be found here but I did something else I almost forgot about: I made a chart on the age group for each finisher. The lighter the color, the younger a finisher. The chart reads from top left to bottom right. Not surprisingly it shows that younger runners dominate the front rows, while the back rows are predominantly dark blue, but overall I am surprised how…
2018 Week 1 – How do I improve in all three disciplines? I don´t. Focus on one discipline and master it. I´ll start with the bike. Total TSS: 442 Total Time: 6 hr 46 min TSS/Hour: 65,3 The new year is here and it is going to be great one! I started off pretty awful, my legs were still in a very bad shape at new years. The worlds most horrible quad sore eventually went away though and I could…
The final week of 2017 was a painful one. I retested my FTP and came out at 312 W, which is a massive improvement. It was painful as shit though. For most of the past 6 weeks sweet spot base I had my road bike on the turbo and swapped it for the TT only very recently. Until then I haven´t ridden the TT hard at all and I realized quickly even during warm up that it makes a hell…