tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151368824212034335.post3868332746806276629..comments2023-10-10T11:42:59.692-04:00Comments on Annster's Domain: Baby Birds Soon!!!!!!!!Annsterwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01441074446170101547noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151368824212034335.post-49140730801396041512010-05-07T23:39:33.014-04:002010-05-07T23:39:33.014-04:00Last autumn when I did my 25 mile TT for the first...Last autumn when I did my 25 mile TT for the first time, I had my FTP set at 240 watts. This was based on a number of races I had done, intervals I could hold in training, etc. I showed up at the TT on the knife edge of fatigue, merely a few weeks before Kona. And managed to put down a time of 1:00:49 with 221 watts normative power, 218 watts average power. A full 15 watts fewer than I "should" have been able to do! Hmm.I don't think I overestimated my FTP too much, maybe by 5 watts or so. A few weeks earlier I had done a 10-mile TT (~105% of FTP) on 254 watts so had based my numbers in part on that. Had I been fully rested, I might have been able to hit that 240 watts, or had I been doing Olympic distance triathlon training instead of Ironman, or, or, or... anyway, suffice it to say, I let my fitness tail off after Kona and at Christmas I was back down to an estimated FTP of 220 watts, to be built back up between January and March via cyclocross, winter circuit races and a warm-weather training camp spent on the Canary Islands.Today I showed up -- same course, same time of day, same air temperature and conditions more or less, same equipment more or less, same lack of sleep, though I was less fatigued overall -- and put down a 1:01:59 with 225 watts normative power and 223 watts average power. The rain halfway through and subsequent windier conditions probably was the biggest factor in the slower time (the winner of both races who happened to be the same guy was also 90 seconds slower), though I also wriggled around a lot and cost myself some aerodynamic advantage, having not ridden my TT bike in a while and not being entirely comfortable on it. Yet I still fell 10 watts short of my current estimated FTP, which is set at 235 watts these days and I think is pretty close to reality.P. Xtremehttp://www.abbicci.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151368824212034335.post-75376549143369826592010-05-07T20:43:26.311-04:002010-05-07T20:43:26.311-04:00How cool! I was sitting in the courtyard at work t...How cool! I was sitting in the courtyard at work the other day. There are a ton of nests up in the "rafters". I saw a crow take of with a baby bird. It was really sad hearing the other birds freaking out.Julie Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14827476441219850741noreply@blogger.com