WHAT'S THE POINT OF HAVING A COACH IF...
MAYBE YOU'VE HAD A COACH, thought about having a coach, have friends that employ a coach. It doesn't really matter...
... if we're not going to listen.
You may think that's obvious,
but ask any coach their biggest challenge.
Gaining the athlete's trust.
Which is weird,
since the athlete is paying.
Looking over today's shellacking, I was asking myself...
... Why did I suck so bad today?
The power numbers were about the same as last week's PR busting ride,
with the same cats,
and same course.
But, I was hurting a lot more.
I dug deeper into the data.
Well, looky here...
... my hr was much higher.
Significantly more time at a threshold hr vs the previous week.
What was different?
Harder sprint workout on Monday,
but, not by a lot.
Longer and harder "easy ride" yesterday.
Then it hit me right between the Kask and the Oakley's.
I ignored my TrainerRoad AI coach which was warning me with a yellow message...
... Danger Ol' Diesel!
The AI sensed I was fatigued.
I paid for that,
ignored it.
Here's the key, we don't trust coaches or experts...
... until we've ignored their wisdom and failed.
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More thoughts on my TrainerRoad AI coaching experience:
- I still don't trust it
- It still shows that my FTP is going to be falling while I work towards peaking for Sea Otter
- I'm going to lean into it the next 2 days, do exactly what's prescribed heading into a B race, Rock Cobbler.
- Because I failed today.
- I think it wants to go easier, so I can go harder on the hard days
- Something I've preached for years
- If I could afford to hire myself I would
- But, would I listen?
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164.4 lbs/12.5%
690 Anti-Oxidant Score
8ish hours sleep
no Upper Body: 60 push ups, 15 pull ups, gripper, heel & toe raises
no Lower Body: split squats, nordic curls
30 minutes Reading/Journaling
91/93/-3 (fitness/fatigue/form per Strava - probably worthless data)
249 FTP per my TrainerRoad AI coach experiment - probably more worthless than Strava