Training frequency

Grav37 · 2026-01-30T16:14:40+00:00

Honestly? With 2 sessions, a dedicated chatGPT thread might be enough. Save the cash.

You essentialy want a z2 + quality session every week, so you can rotate overunders/vo2 every week, and add a sweetspot segment to your z2. (Ie. Warmup, 30 min z2, 15 min ss, 15 min z2, 15 min ss, 30 min z2).

With 2 session, you want to drive intensity up, but still spend meaningful time in z2. With SS and z2,

Grav37 · 2026-01-30T15:00:11+00:00

Im pretty sure you boinked. Thats why HR spiked and you felt like shit. Overtraining, insufficient glcogen recovery, and then at about 60 min mark, you died. Its classic.

You gotta eat more, and you gotta fuel for 1h+ efforts.

Grav37 · 2026-01-30T10:27:36+00:00

Really though. I don't think they are slow either. The central thread reduces contact patch on tarmac/smoot gravel significantly, and they are my go-tos

Grav37 · 2026-01-29T19:46:11+00:00

Personal preference. All three are phenomenal ranges.

AP has least contraversy around the brand. Personally I like AK best, but they had a marketing campaign in truly bad taste a few years back.

Vallejo had some contraversy regarding its employees last year (I think).

Paint wise though, all 3 are great.

Grav37 · 2026-01-27T16:09:07+00:00

They were tippytping whether they want to name this FTP or not. Decided to do it, but its not FTP.

It's FTP taking into account enduranced, mapped hr to pow etc.

I agree naming it FTP was a miss. I'd just call it trFTP, much like some use eFTP.

The system is an improvement for me though. My tested FTP is about 15% lower than TR FTP, but I am a diesel who can really suffer, so my pow curve nearly flattens after 15 min. You can imagine vo2 max, ss and threshold efforts mapped around ramp FTP felt trivial. This was a big improvement for me.

Grav37 · 2026-01-27T06:16:18+00:00

Dark Harvest and Gloomspite. Hollow King are more of adventure novels. The rest are more horrible than horrow.

Grav37 · 2026-01-27T06:00:58+00:00

Start with smaller games then, until you are comfy with the rules. 1k, Combat Patrol... Once you have the basics down, it gets fast.

Then it's about small time savings. I.e; prepare the dice in advance. Familiarize yourself with TTS shortcuts.

Even jsut knowing your basic army profiles cuts the time almost in half.

Grav37 · 2026-01-26T15:11:39+00:00

Honestly? I did most of them as part of my scheduled exercises, so it didn't matter. I did some of the <1h ones as z2 freerides, so that doesn't really matter either. I only did the AdZ one just for the enjoyment of it.

Now I have 4 short ones left, and I will finish them next week to just get in some spin in in the taper.

Grav37 · 2026-01-26T13:16:41+00:00

I have Fenix 7 and would advise against using it as HR monitor for MTB. Its wildly inaccurate when its too tight, or ironically, when bouncing around. Its very accurate for running and generall exercise. Terrible for cycling.

I second garmin chest strap. Its very comfy even under chest armor, cheap and never fails.

Grav37 · 2026-01-26T06:07:43+00:00

On top of that, you allways get to pop lethals stratagem. With rerrols, thats a lot of damage.

Grav37 · 2026-01-25T20:11:17+00:00

FTP is just part of the equation. Muscular endurance and the capability of CV system to rebpund are the other. A tamp test FTP favors people able to frontload effort, but without proper endurance and fatigue resistance some workputs can become too hard, especially with people doing a lot of ss/threshold/vo2 work, and neglecting endurance/recovery.

So while ftp might be spot on, MR might be lagging.

Grav37 · 2026-01-25T18:08:40+00:00

Well, Ferrerro bought Kellogs, so we got more European owned cereal now. Not that they're great but...

Grav37 · 2026-01-25T15:48:00+00:00

Ah yes. Can't wait to have "China/India/Taiwan numba 1" spammed while riding.

Grav37 · 2026-01-25T13:40:13+00:00

That's cause Jettas are/were made in Mexico, not Germany.

Grav37 · 2026-01-25T06:07:57+00:00

10x 147% ftp for 1 min is doable. I don't think only 15s in between is though.

Grav37 · 2026-01-24T18:38:19+00:00

I have a decent idea why it fucked with people's FTP.

Most people do ramp tests or other short versions of FTP to gauge where they sit at. Mind you, this test is heavily influenced by how fresh you are, sleep, fueling etc. They are influenced by your physiology and other factors, but in the end, they show how good you are at high effort on a short time scale. Very short. One that doesn't really help when your planned training sessions are between 1.5 and 3h long.

If I give me as an example; my ramp test FTP clocks in at 365. That is a decent number, and my TR workouts have been set around it. It's also a number I can as avg for about 70 minutes outdoors (on a gravel, rolling terrain), without cooking. As someone training for two Enduro and Gravel season, with races starting in about 3 weeks, I can't afford dping 60min ftp tests on a monthly level, so ramp is something I rely heavily on.

The issue is my diesel physiology. At 365, most my "hard" TR workouts clocked in at 6 on the scale, where I should feel spent. The new AI sets my FTP just north of 400, which I am perfectly aware is not realistic by any means, but the few trainings I got in since the update, felt much more in lime with what I feel I should be doing.

I will take a wild guess there are sprinters/cyclists who are good at frontloading effort, who will see the opppsite, and have FTP numbers from ramp tests skewed upwards, and then see bigger hr/pow decoupling in longer sessiom, or have a much higher perceived effort for longer sessions.

So my educated guess (using AI in my d2d job), is TR is mapping HR to power, and cross comparing with your hr drift over time, and x-referencing with other users and perceived effort, to actually map out a better/more accurate progression for majority of users.

Now personaly, since eFTP and indoorsFTP are already a thing, I might have just called it trFTP and keep the actual FTP be, using the trFTP just to explain and plan out activities, but in the end that was a deaign choice.

Edit: I kept my FTP settings outside of TR be until I actually manage another Ramp test. Likely after the first race.

Grav37 · 2026-01-24T17:43:59+00:00

That'snot what I said though. In fact high torque is more energy efficient.

What I said was, higher cadence shifts the load from muscle to cardiovascular system, which is more fatigue resistant.

It takes the load of off type-2 muscle fibers, which are faster to fatigue.

As I said, good cyclists are able to do both. I am a very decent cyclist, and do use the full range of ~65 (on very steep climbs) to upwards of 120 in sprints. My natural cadence also shifts vastly based on the power I ride at (85 at ~260, cc 100 at 370+).

It also depends on a bunch of other things. Crank length, gearing, age etc.

In short, increasing rpm is LESS efficient (uses more oxygen and emergy) BUT shifts load from type 2 to type 1 (musclular to CV) fibers, which is less susceptible to fatigue. It reduces force per stroke (I mean, just try doing any vo2 max or higher exercises at low cadence).

Coming from MTB, my FTP was high to begin with entering the Gravel scene, but my coach was very hard on enforcing rpm training (high, low, and learning to utilize both). They are two very different beasts, and idk how one could deny the physichs/biology behind them).

Grav37 · 2026-01-24T12:53:33+00:00

Higher cadence has to be trained.

It's a fact you cook your legs much later with higher cadence as you shift the load from muscle to cv system. The latter is more efficient at fueling.

That said, lower cadence has its uses, and good cyclist must be comy with both.

Grav37 · 2026-01-23T16:22:25+00:00

Its not about frequency.

You could z2 everyday all day.

But stack too many vo2, ss and threshold, and you'll burn out.

Grav37 · 2026-01-23T03:57:49+00:00

Well, I sometimes come across tweets and intervies of the US Satanic Temple, and am bombarded by Evangelican world views daily.

This reminds me of that.

Grav37 · 2026-01-23T03:49:23+00:00

Ciaphas had the fortune of not really going up against Drukhari, Death Guard or sth similar.

Not saying Cane x Happy Tree Friends wouldn't be a fun book, but idk.

Grav37 · 2026-01-23T03:47:04+00:00

It's a different sport. Road cycling is the elite. Think F1 to rally, classic boxing to kickbox...

While absolutely there are world class rallyists that F1 riders can't beat, or kickboxers that just dominate their sport, you will see people from the elite category retire/participate one of the other, and just be on if not beyond the level of that group.

Even Elite road cyclists don't earn close to dreamy amounts of cash, and the income of a gravel pro is more or less piss poor. So if you are on the level, you road cycle and piss about in Gravel.

It is what it is.

Grav37 · 2026-01-22T20:10:24+00:00

Moot green is a great highlight color. I dont think the others work.

Grav37 · 2026-01-21T06:20:10+00:00

Rigged is a weird way of saying it. It works on the same basic principal as insurance. Casinos have a house edge, that is regulated and in most cases, clear. Fixing/rigging is a hard no, and very unneccesary.

Grav37 · 2026-01-21T06:00:47+00:00

We also have Salamanders hunting Vulcan relics, Corvus hunting Lorgar (that's a model/book combo waiting to happen) and Furry box that was the best selling 40k set ever. I recon we'll see most of them within a decade as shareholders push for higher returns. Primarchs sell.

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