Today because yesterday closed 
Re-ordered: Closed today because of yesterday.
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Another “fantastic” SUFday draws to a close here… GvA would be proud of us.
The Sufferlandrian Cheer Squad were ecstatic as always…. 
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In an attempt to lighten the mood regarding badges:
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Pushed myself to do Kitchen Sink after basically a year off SYSTM… and it turns out I seem to have previously avoided some of the most painful parts of the mashup. Pretty much everything after The Shovel was new to me, in a gruesome way! Made it through though, dialled it down to 90% for the final section. Hopefully I crossed the line in a SUF day eligible time zone. Would be nice to get a badge for that!
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Congratulations to everyone who made it through KITCHEN SINK yesterday, that’s quite a feat.
Based on how I’ve been training the last several months, I knew 3 hours would be unachieveable for me, yet I still yearned to suffer. Therefore, using SUF math where 2 + 2 = 3, I devised a plan to do the SUFtober workouts this weekend.
First up, HELL HATH NO FURY @ 100%. I must have done a lot of scorning in a previous life, because the ladies unleashed a merciless beatdown on me, particularly that small Dutch(?) woman on the Cervelo in the first long interval. My relative weakness is long sustained efforts, so I had to dig very deep to hit my targets on this workout. Ultimately, I did just enough to avoid being boiled alive.
After a brief nature break I jumped right into the DOWNWARD SPIRAL. It didn’t take long before cracks started to appear… my inability to achieve high cadence, and stealing 10 seconds here and there for recovery. I dialed it back to 90% and carried on. In fact, as it wore on, I was able to exceed the targets (albeit reduced), so I felt better about that.
The rest of the day was spent by repeating a cycle of eating, drinking, and napping. I was trashed.
After a decent night’s sleep (and my history being updated for yesterday’s efforts), I’m ready to throw myself at it again. This time I’ll be better fuelled and I’ll aim to do both sessions at 95%. Today’s menu has a main course of BLENDER (looking forward to some cabbage) followed by HIGH TIME for dessert. It will be vaguely interesting (but mostly just painful) to learn whether I fare better when I do sustained efforts after hard short intervals vs before.
Well, it’s time to double-check the math, buck up, and get back to it!
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For the first time, I have attempted Kitchen Sink. What glorious suffering! Not having suffered inside since… February? Not having suffered in a structured way since… February? This might have possibly been the stupidest of ideas (although it seemed like a good idea at the time).
Oh GvA, did I want to quit. Wanted it real bad. But I suffered on, for the glory of the Nation. Now, feeling only the joy that post-suffering can bring. Thank GvA for this truly fantastic masterpiece.
(I am still within SUF Nat’s day time, right? 
)
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Waitaminnit!!! Dame @IsiSchneider_KoS Are you doing the whole vids of these things?!?! As in another Knighthood?!?!
Edit: nvm. I needed to scroll to the right to see your time stamps.
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I tried Kitchen Sink yesterday but died after 2 hours. After being resuscitated, I came back to finish the last hour today.
It is possible that my recovery after the first half via a bubble bath and pizza was too Couchlandrian and disqualified me from the badge! (No regrets.) But based on this explanation I thought the badge would still be awarded. Just wanted to check.
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Gee, that was fun! Three hours of pure enjoyment. So, Kitchensink is the equivilant to the couchlandrian habit of binge-watching?
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Well done for getting to two hours, I did a similar thing completing half on Saturday and half today, in my history both show as orange and with an exclamation mark, so not sure about the badge and like you I am hoping to get it, for me it was a killer 
but i’m so glad I did it and thanks to everyone here that made me laugh and inspired me 
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Persistence pays off (doesn’t mean you’re smart though 
). I see it the same way as you but there have been problems with completed workouts getting updated, so hang in there.
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my personal Kitchen Sink history
10 Feb 2018 
(and swore I’d never gonna do it again)
07 April 2023 (and swore I’d never gonna do it again)
28 October 2023 (and swore I’d never gonna do it again)
29 December 2024 (and swore I’d never gonna do it again)
today
(and swore I’d never gonna do it again but I’m afraid I will)
wtf is wrong with me?
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Hahaha, well suffered all.
Dame Isi, my very first TOS poster, I wrote on it “Never again!.. “ and signed it. Lol
You may have Sufferlandrian tendencies can’t be overcome…
About this no badge showing, I am waiting for a minion message to show up for us that says, oops, our math was off, you have to kitchen sink twice now.
Not getting a badge is, well, very Sufferlandrian. 
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On yesterday‘s Knight Ride on Zwift we were commenting and joking about Kitchensink being a „Zone 2 workout“. After finishing it today, I looked at my figures, and most of the time (58%) I WAS in Zone 2.
Did I do anything wrong? I hit all the targetet numbers in KitchenSink based on a Test a couple of weeks ago.
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Even in interval workouts you spend most of your time in zones lower than zones 3-5. You should be spending most of your time in zone 2 or zone 1.
The question is, what zones did you spend your time in for the other 42%?
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According to my history, I’ve done Kitchen Sink 3 times. Basically every-other year.
1 - Nov 6, 2021
2 - Oct 28, 2023
3 - Oct 25, 2025
So give me a couple years to recover and I will probably ride it again.
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You definitely will 
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September 29, 2027 maybe?
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Tako - Zone 2 heart rate or power? And which app gave you the percentages? According to my Strava power zones, which are a bit different from Sufferfest, I was in zone 1 power 42% of the time. Fortunately for me, all or almost all the recovery minutes were in zone 1 power, right? Thankfully there were lots of recovery minutes.
If your HR was in zone 2 58% of the time, your heart must recover really, really well.
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