Set a decent fitness signature with Fitness Test v3 last week so wasn’t expecting a BT today, but got a bronze in my first non-workout ride since Xert joining 10 days ago. Loved watching the MPA drain in the app as I climbed Alpe du Zwift in their Rapha Rising challenge, it was a great motivator. I won’t be doing full hour power often though, much prefer the shorter maximal efforts!
Been on No Decay for about 3 months. I wasnt fully rested but wanted to try an effort on the Zwift Insider Badge hunt. Pretty thrilled with my results. Effort up the first KOM, then endurance pace the rest of the way. 236 to 242.Started the year out around 228.
@Tarmac_Tree the sub-hour still eludes me too. Achieved 62 min about 3 years ago before an 18-month layoff through injury. After 8 months of rebuilding my fitness from nothing, I’m down to a 64 min AdZ and only 20W off my pre-injury TP. Now I’m back in full structured training I’ve turned to Xert hoping it can push me higher than I’ve ever been!
First ride in the Lakes after two months of mostly base/endurance on the turbo. Almost impossible not to get a BT with a combination of having no Peak Strain in my training so far and some 20% Lakeland Ramps (Cold Fell, in this case)
Interesting. I attacked AdZ this week but no BT and my difficulty is significantly different to yours.
I had a 4:20 improve and finally broke the hour (56:51). More importantly my TP is 275 and I held 272 for all 56 minutes. Difficulty was only 117 compared with your 225.
I did push a bit hard at the end but I knew I had achieved my goal and was tired anyway.
See my post below. I had a hip relacement last April after an accident. TP dropped to about 180 but is now 10w above my best ever - aged 65. Everything is possible.
My secret to getting close then beating the hour is to keep power even across all 21 segments. My last effort for 61:09 was avg 251 (Dec 21) . I averaged 272 this time for a nice improve - 56:52
This is a bit different from the normal BT MPA images we see. A 100Km ride - very steady MPA - keeping well under TP and I pushed at the end to get inside 3 hours. PP peaked by 17 watts.
As I start riding my bike outside I think that will go up as I cannot really sprint on my turbo bike.
Tuesday I was feeling fairly strong after taking it easy for a week. I decided to go out a little harder and see if I could grab a breakthrough to refresh my numbers. I didn’t really have a strategy; just attack the hills and keep the pressure on. The result was a really fun ride and a gold breakthrough!
I still felt that my peak number was still a little low. So today, rather than change my planned ride, I decided to simply augment it with some good, solid, sprint efforts. Success! Bronze result for peak power.
Achieved 62 min about 3 years ago before an 18-month layoff through injury. After 8 months of rebuilding my fitness from nothing, I’m down to a 64 min AdZ and only 20W off my pre-injury TP. Now I’m back in full structured training I’ve turned to Xert hoping it can push me higher than I’ve ever been!
