Trainerroad 08 Days in California

pprendeville

Anyone doing this challenge on Trainerroad? Would be nice to check in on anyone on here taking part. Going to give it a lash.

bren_mc

with the weather we're having I'd say not many would consider 8 days of turbo training. Maybe if it was in January or something

Zen0

I reckon Trainer Road subscriptions go through the floor at this time of year. This sounds like an effort hold on to some of those subscribers.

doozerie

I'm tempted to do it but I did the Tour of Sufferlandria earlier this year and I found that really hard. For the 8 Days of California I haven't found any details on their site of exactly which workouts you have to do over the course of the week, which makes me even more wary of signing up for it.

As well as the 9 days on the trot of Tour of Sufferlandria workouts being hard in themselves, it was also very hard to make sufficient time to get each workout (or pair of workouts) done within its/their alloted time period. On balance I think it's too much for me to try to commit to again, though the nagging temptation persists!

Good luck with it though. I caught a nasty bug after my stint (hardly coincidentaly, I am a wuss!) which meant that I didn't get to repeat the FTP test until a couple of weeks after I'd finished the Tour, but my FTP was up by about 10% when I did retest it. So it seemed to have simultaneously brought me on while also kicking me in the teeth.

couerdelion

doozerie wrote: »

For the 8 Days of California I haven't found any details on their site of exactly which workouts you have to do over the course of the week, which makes me even more wary of signing up for it.

If you register for it they show up in the app under Workouts/teams 8DC - 2014.

Looks tough enough

pprendeville

One stage per day is manageable. Looking forward to doing sessions that are like a race instead of structured threshold work. Should be a good boost as Doozerie said. Fair play for finishing The Tour of Sufferlandria. No easy feat I'd say, hadn't been a TR user at the time but doubt I'd have tried it.

Stage 1: 56min, 80TSS (Training Stress Score, anything under TSS80/hour I find manageable as long as it doesn't have too much VO2 max or huge Watts) with mainly Sweet Spot effort.
Stage 2: 59min, 77TSS but it includes 20mins at threshold so that will be hard and like a 20min FTP test almost.
Stage 3: no TSS given but looks ok on paper with mainly endurance and SS efforts with some sprints and VO2 max work thrown in for good measure.
Stage 4: 70min, TSS99. Very hard. The rest of the stages haven't been ridden yet.
Stage 5: 58min, TSS72. Easy on paper.
Stage 6: 98min, TSS128. Looks killer tough.
Stage 7: 70min, TSS110. Ditto.
Stage 8: 81min, TSS121. Saving the best for last.

pprendeville

Zen0 wrote: »

I reckon Trainer Road subscriptions go through the floor at this time of year. This sounds like an effort hold on to some of those subscribers.

I'm not so sure. I rekon they still have a decent base and you probably have some who don't bother cancelling their subscription out of laziness (the bourgeois in me best inner city accent

They dont overload on events like this either so it is something to look forward to and target. At least that's how I'm feeling.