
So I will start with a bit of background. I bought my bike on the 13th of August 2011 and within about a week I started a structured training program with a training partner from uni. Now some stats.
VO2max:
22/8/2011 (start) - 3.89L (45ml/kgmin) - - Last stage finished 345W
6/10/11 - 4.7L (57.7ml/kgmin) - Failed (AT) 199BPM - Last stage finished 400W
18/11/11 - 4.4L (56ml/kgmin) - Failed (AT) 191BPM - Last stage finished 400W - Ate poorly beforehand so didnt max.
3/2/12 - 4.9L (63.5ml/kgmin) - Failed (AT) 189BPM - Was about to finish 430W when mouthpiece fell out and I decided I didnt really want to do one again, was slightly disappointed as i was aiming to finish 490W which I would not of been able to do but still an improvement so cant complain too much.
Bobbin Head Climb (which is my yardstick climb):
28/8/11 - 16:14
17/12/11 - 15:03 - 159BPM (not max effort)
28/1/12 : 10:02 -172BPM (at the end of a long day)
4/2/12: 9:52 - 180BPM - 340W
FTP:
1/9/11 - 210W - On trainer on mates bike with powermeter.
11/10/11 - 230W - On Lode bike which feels harder then on a powermeter.
5/2/11 - 275.5 - Estimate baised on peak 20min of calga TT (possibly a little higher then this).
So now a bit about myself. Im a 21 year old uni student studying physiotherapy who after getting told by a knee specialist I probably wont run again (or I will just get knee pain every time I do) to give up trying to go back to playing footy. I had been a fan of watching cycling (Tour de France etc) for a while I decided to take up cycling. Before cycling I was active but I was far from fit I never really trained and most my activity was doing weights, as I kid I did a lot of athletics and played a lot of AFL before being struck with knee problems. When I started my weight was pretty up somewhere around 87kg or so.
Goals:
Currently there is one main goal and that is really to hopefully be competitive at the Tour of Canberra in B grade on 5/5/12 everything is building towards that. For this I feel I will need my FTP to be quite a bit over 300 not sure how much and be able to hold 400ishW up a 10min climb I will also be aiming to be 70kg. My second priority race is the NSW hill climb champs on 21/4/12. Although im more of a sprinter I want to be able to climb and TT well and to really sprint well I need to get my more FTP up so im not wrecked coming into the finish. I will continue to do track and crits to maintain my sprint power and hopefully develop it a bit but that is not the main aim at the moment its climbing and long term power.
Thats all for now I will go a little into my training program at a later date (which is HR based at the moment having just got a powermeter).
Disclaimer: Im an OCD type person and at the moment that is totally focused on cycling.