WEEK 3 OF HAVING A COACH AGAIN.

I HIRED A COACH.  It's been about 2 years, since I had one in my corner.  That one lasted a couple of years.  Prior coach to that was on and off over a number of years...

... mainly off.

I have a problem with structure.

As the great Jack Nicholson said in The Shining...

... All work and no play, makes riding dull and not a joy.

Today, was my first workout with a power meter in about 4 years.

I pushed back on this request, and the coach pushed this gem back at me...

Yeah, you old school guys have been successful doing it the old way.  I get it.  But, my ways are new school and very effective.

... so I got the pw, who wants to be called out like that?

When I reported I had it installed he said...

Oh yesssss
Now we can get going!

... and I'm thinking, bro we've been going for 2 weeks.

The workout drills were pretty straight forward and I had a good idea of what amount of watts I was supposed to hold for set amounts of time...

... and then I experienced the truth of a power meter.

When you commit to hold X watts for Y time,
your HR starts climbing,
breathing accelerates,
pain increases.

What am I hoping to accomplish via this new training?...

... learn some new tricks, reach some new heights.

Because here is one thing I know for sure, 
we can learn reading books and watching videos...

... a world-class coach can speed all that up, and I'm in a hurry.

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Regarding that pic above, during one of the interval sessions I was blasting along, holding down that power through a turn that had been booby trapped.  Normally, I would have slowed up a bit...

... maybe I don't have to hurry that much?

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164.7
7ish hrs
1 RaceDay Ready Circuit
20 minutes recovery
90 minutes reading + Journaling 

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