Mike's Power Blog

After my painful 20 minute power test last week, I wondered how an outdoor 20 min test would compare to an indoor one, and I took the chanc...

It's been a long long while since I last did a 20 minutes power test and I really really hated it. I needed to do one, and as I have be...

Had a day off yesterday so I wanted to do something hardish on the road. I settled on trying to do 10 intervals of 360W (115%) x 3 minutes t...

Felt good when I got home from work and, motivated by the sunshine, I decided to head out onto the road for a mixed interval session. There...

I've been suffering from some early starts this week so I haven't felt like doing too much on the turbo in the evenings. I got a luc...

After Friday's fun on the road I made the effort to get up early and get a longer ride in today. The sun was up by 8am, shining brightly...

After a day off from training I was really pleased to drive home in glorious sunshine because it meant that I could finally get out onto the...

Today I did a shortened version of the infamous 'Hour of Power' devised by Bill Black. It's based around 60 minutes at a solid 9...

I last did this on 3 Feb and quite liked it even though it gets tough towards the end. After a poor night's sleep and a crappy day at w...

Had a recovery day yesterday, did a bit of shopping, took some photos, drank a couple of glasses of wine, relaxed. Today I wanted to wo...

After 6 days of feeling too ill to train I was looking forward to getting back on the turbo tonight to give my legs a spin to make sure I...

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 really enjoy Local Hero. For me it has the right balance of achievable and challenging and it just keeps taking and taking until you'r...

Glossary Today was a beautiful Yorkshire day with clear skies and a cheeky breeze; far too nice to be stuck in on the turbo. I was lucky e...

After yesterday's run and a long winter walk today I was keen to get back on the turbo before I started drinking to celebrate the end of...

I've been under the weather for the last 2 days, generally feeling listless but not actually ill, no cold-like symptoms despite being cl...

As my FTP has only recently increased to 314 and I have decided to use my old FTP as a basis for my workouts for another week or so. I had...

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...