Mike's Power Blog

Next in the series of indoor sessions completed on the road is Sufferfest's Revolver, essentially 16 1 min intervals at 133% FTP (400W f...

The aim of this post is to provide guidance on the use of Turbo Trainers for those that haven’t used them before or have recently started....

I've had the luxury of a week off work to allow me to focus on getting some good training in and hopefully make some more progress towar...

I woke up to a surprisingly mild Yorkshire day so I thought I'd make the most of it and get to a local hill for some intervals. I live a...

I felt quite 'lactic' after yesterday's effort so I needed an active recovery day. After lunch I got ready to do a toned-down ve...

After 4 weeks of turbo time it was eventually time to complete another 20 minute power test to see if I had made any improvement. I tried to...

At the end of the third week I have achieved: Rides: 3 - all turbo sessions totalling 3 hrs 35 mins (last week 5 hrs 50 mins). This reduct...

This is a description of the terms, abbreviations and concepts that I use in the blog. There are better guides on the internet, but this is ...

I've had 3 lazy days with absolutely NO exercise due to lots of travelling with work, 12 hour days, long cold nights and a cheap bar. I ...

With only an hour or so before I had to do some chores I planned to do another 2x20 at FTP. The first session went well with a nice steady p...

After a day at work looking forward to an hour on the turbo, I snuck off early and got the torture chamber set up and ready for The Hell of ...

AMENDMENT on 7 Dec 12. See additional info in red at the bottom of this post for a slightly dfferent version. While slogging away on the t...

Feeling a little sore (a strange glute soreness I've never had before) and a poor night's sleep, I was expecting to suffer when I st...

After a day off the turbo yesterday and having a day off work today I was hoping for a couple of hours out on the roads to do some road sess...

At the end of the first week I can now review what I achieved: Rides: 5 - all turbo sessions Total Bikescore (TSS): 390 Total time in ...

I didn't do my planned Chain Gang ride due to heavy Yorkshire fog so I did a 2x20 at FTP (306W) turbo session instead. I didn't know...

Mid-session data view. I use Golden Cheetah v3 when I'm doing my workouts giving a live readout of key parameters. It's completely...

After a disappointing session yesterday I thought I'd repeat it with exactly the same set up. Black line = power. Red line = HR. ...

After 2 days off I was looking forward to one of my home-brew turbo sessions called Shorter Harder . Overview (based on a FTP of 306W) W...

Tonight's Turbo Trainer session was a 2 x 20 min at FTP (target 306W) with 10 mins warm-up and 10 mins between the intervals. I felt OK ...