FTP

Anyone walking past the house would have (rightly) pondered what on earth was making the noise coming from the garage tonight. That would've been me into the last 5 minutes of a full gas effort to recalibrate my Functional Threshold Power. Recently my heart rate hasn't been getting up as high as it should have been for the power I was supposedly putting out on the turbo. I thought the heart rate strap might have been loose; then that the battery might have been dying; then that the tensioner on the turbo has slipped off a bit.... It says a lot that my last consideration was that, well, I might have just got a bit fitter, and getting back to commuting, while slowly, firmly in the 'endurance' zone, could have helped with a quicker than usual shift.

Will wait for the coach to analyse the results, but I presume the sessions are going to get harder for a while as my target power moves up a bit. Very much onwards and upwards.

Legs hurt though.

And I'm planning on taking the bike to work tomorrow....