Today appears to be FTP day.... mine was down by 5W
Onward and upwards...
So now the question:
- did it drop because you are not training enough
- or because you're training too much
Also if you were not very fresh, don't immediately assume you would not have done better on a better day.
I'm slightly scared of my increase as I'd been struggling a bit with FTP of 266 and dropped it to 255. Now the test says it' 268 so I might start to struggle again.
Its probably a bit of a combo of a different time of day and a little bit of fatigue from Saturdays 200km
Last night test, FTP 231:
Previous, FTP 235:
I carried a lot of fatigue from the Rapha 500 over Xmas but thought I had mostly got over it
Interestingly I was initially disappointed to see only getting to a 'fitness level' of about 100 but looking at last years data I am getting to where I was at the end of 2016 in a lot less time, so the training must pay off in some way. What I don't necessarily have is the FTP data points (I didnt do much testing last year - and what testing I did do was a mix of protocols)
I'm still struggling with what to do where I have audax and training combining for a big TSS, at the moment I am just planning to bounce/pause the training plan sessions along few days and picking back up where I left off on the plan but I don't know how this works in real life?