This is not the mental fortitude Chad bangs on about in his workout text. By the way, I still donвЂ™t really know where that is. This is not the mental fortitude required to get where I want to be. It was while poking around for these that I did more reading on the TrainerRoad Forum and decided I was being a complete twat. So I started searching around for some maintenance plans to try and keep me going through Xmas. Which as they say, is the whole point of Xmas. Seemed like a sensible approach as then I could eat, drink and be extremely sick. My first reaction was to try and put a delay into the training and resume after Xmas. You would have thought this would have given me a higher FTP reading. Whilst this was all a bit distracting (and very annoying) to begin with, it meant that the first few intervals were actually ridden at a lower power than required.

I found I had to increase the resistance using the gears rather than relying on Erg mode. This confused me at the start as the effort didnвЂ™t seem to be going up. For the first time ever the Samsung Tablet decided to drop signal to the Turbo. In fairness the test itself wasnвЂ™t great. I think I may have missed only two of them. I have been following ChadвЂ™s workouts more or less to the letter. IвЂ™m not sure what I was expecting but I was hoping for something better. Seriously, thatвЂ™s basically a rounding error. This gave me the opportunity to see how things were progressing. How did the Base phase go? Well, the Build phase starts with an FTP ramp test. I have now completed my base training plan on TrainerRoad, and have gone straight into the вЂњSustained Power Build Mid volumeвЂќ.

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