OFFICIAL Tour of Sufferlandria 2015 Thread (Page 2)

It's coming fast!  Who's ready?!

I'm tempted to do Rubber Glove Wednesday to make sure I have a solid baseline set, but I'm afraid it's going to be higher.

I'm in and thoroughly blowing up my training plan in the process.  Who needs a base anyway? 

I'm currently running at a virtual power FTP on TR for my Kurt Kinetic of 295.  It's been there for two years and that last test was at the end of a build so it's probably a little lower now.  I'm thinking of dropping it 5% for the Tour and see what happens.  In my two SF "test" sessions, I struggled but managed on The Rookie and got clobbered by Hell Hath No Fury.

I'm going to start tomorrow morning - gotta use every second available to survive!

So The Long Scream is an extra shot video.  What superhero says "you know...that Sufferfest hero wasn't hard enough.  Let's tack on 30 minutes at threshold!"?!

Blender has always been my favorite Sufferfest video -- so glad we got to do it early in the tour before my legs are completely trashed!

Fight Club done...wheels came off a bit on the last 7'. 

Didn't love the video (first time I've done that one).  The "attacking" piece was the same clip over and over again.  Looks like the minions mailed it in on this one.  :-)

For a long time it was my favorite video, because it's a great workout.  Then Blender took it for a while, but now The Rookie owns the title.

I can already feel a loss at my top end.  Sprints are getting harder and hard to do, which doesn't bode well for Saturday....

Ditto for me...the threshold level stuff is fine, but that 120%+ stuff is killing me. 

Nine Hammers in the books, pretty much nailed it except the last minute.  I like that video...it kind of lulls you into thinking "I got this" and then the last two hammers kick the crap out of you.

Was woken up by the alarm this morning at 5:30 and sat there in bed rationalizing about dialing back my FTP today for Angels.  I finally decided to give it a go @100% and managed to survive it (after an extra 6-7 min WU...hitting 95% only 6 min in is way to quick for me, especially at 6 AM).  The over-under and first climb were a comfortable tough, the 2nd climb really started to hurt, and I had to dial back juuuuust a little for about 1 min in the middle of the 3rd climb.  Top end at low cadences is completely gone.

More than halfway done, stage-wise anyway. 

I hate Local Hero.  I'm dreading the hell out of that stage tomorrow.  Despite being on stage 5 of 9 we still have almost 7 hours of riding left.  Gonna be a long next few days.