End of November - FTP builder completed (nearly, kinda anyway)

 So still spinning away here. November has been almost exclusively Zwift rides. Racked up 18 rides, and 379km for the month.

The FTP builder program has been interesting. The rides are all about hitting a certain wattages at a certain cadence for various intervals. So for example the next 8 minutes will be 190 watts at 95 RPM. The times, the candences, the watts they all vary interval to interval. So my FTP tested at 215 watts pre-training program. Most of the time I was sitting at wattages of either 115, 155, 190 or 215. 115 was recovery. Cadences varied from 60 thru to 105. 85 was regarded as standard.

So gradually thru program the the intervals would get longer, the recoveries shorter. The idea being to steadily overload me, and I'd adjust.  Well that was the theory.

I've done all the sessions, but I haven't completed all the sessions. About week 4 the sessions started getting really bloody hard. And I'd ride to a standstill after 50, 45 minutes (the sessions were typically scheduled to run for 70 odd minutes). And I'd be well stuffed when I slid off the bike. 

Annoyingly the session would be deemed as incomplete (though to be fair, I guess it's accurate). I've got one more session to do to complete the FTP builder program, though I'm not sure exactly what that means at this point (given I've already failed to complete quite a few sessions).

What i can confidently say is I've ridden 4 hard sessions every week for the last 6 weeks. I'll test my FTP soon to see if that's improved, and will also check the scales.