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20 minute FTP Test – Fitness Gains

Alan Cole — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 07:56:33 +0000

Phew, it’s been a while since I last did an FTP. Monday morning brought with it time to do a 20 minute FTP test though. My last test was at the beginning of January, an 8 minute test that produced an FTP of 290 Watts. Not great, but it dod result in a slight improvement over...

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TrainerRoad and Best Bike Split

Alan Cole — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:27:18 +0000

Feeling completely unprepared for the upcoming Fishguard Ocean Lava Half Ironman distance triathlon that I’m supposed to be doing in a couple of weeks, I thought it was time to simulate riding the course. I didn’t have time to head to Fishguard again to ride the bike route. So, instead I decided to replicate it on...

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Training, Racing and Recreation Balance

Alan Cole — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 06:23:49 +0000

You may have noticed that although I’ve still be fairly active, cycling, running around the coast path and such like, I haven’t been posting about any proper training and certainly nothing about any races. This is all due to the fact that I’ve had a few niggling injuries. Injuries Last year it was plantar fasciitis,...

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Garden Reconstruction

Alan Cole — Wed, 25 May 2016 07:40:37 +0000

Morgan was at home ill on Monday, he wasn’t too bad but he was recovering from a nasty bout of diarrhea and sickness on Sunday, so I was housebound too. I did a fair bit of work first thing, then did an hour on the turbo trainer with some VO2max intervals courtesy of ‘Shortoff +1’ from...

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Geocaching in the Hills

Alan Cole — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:36:42 +0000

Day two of 2016 and we had to get Morgan out of the house again, so we had some nice easy almost drive by geocaching in the hills planned. Not much walking involved today just a quick cache and dash before heading into Aberystwyth so that Morgan could spend some of his Christmas money on...

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TrainerRoad workout Goddard – A 2nd Attempt

Alan Cole — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:15:57 +0000

I’ve just had a second attempt at the TrainerRoad workout Goddard. I tried this last week and couldn’t quite decide if I was having a slow recovery from illness or was just being lazy. I didn’t manage to finish the whole of the workout last week. I cut out the last round of spin ups and then didn’t...

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Ultimate Turbo Trainer Set Up, Gadgets, Software and Workflow

Alan Cole — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:55:02 +0000

I’m quite pleased with my turbo trainer set up, the software I use with it, the ‘workflow’ I have to record everything and the gadgets that I use to make this happen. I’ve mentioned many of them here in passing, but thought I’d write a post about the whole kit and caboodle. What I use, how it...

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An FTP Test

Alan Cole — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:23:18 +0000

As part of my training I like to do an FTP (Functional Threshold Power) test every so often. Now, when I say ‘like’, that’s not really true as the test itself involves far too much pain and suffering, not to mention the sweat, snot and dribble, followed by a feeling a nausea and sore legs...

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Bike Fit and Turbo Trainer Set Up

Alan Cole — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:35:36 +0000

I know it’s a bit of a luxury having a bike specifically for use on my Turbo Trainer, but it is over 20 years old! The other issue with it is that it isn’t easy to get it set up exactly the same as the bike I use on the road. If I simply put...

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TrainerRoad TrainerRelay and Workout Builder

Alan Cole — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:26:04 +0000

I got to play with a new feature of the TrainerRoad Beta software yesterday. The feature called TrainerRelay allow you to re-broadcast your virtual power data from TrainerRoad on your PC to a head unit such as my Garmin Forerunner 910XT watch. This essentially gives me a power meter that I can use to train with. TrainerRoad...

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