Let’s kickstart Stage 1 together with Team Scream: a 48-kilometer Team Time Trial (TTT). Pacing is vital and teamwork is crucial, so get ready to take your pull at the front and settle into the paceline.
Thanks to a last-minute selection, you have been drafted into a 48-kilometer Team Time Trial (TTT). Done correctly, each of the 5 riders will all cross the finish line utterly spent. Pacing is vital. A TTT is essentially one long set of Over / Under intervals. When it’s your turn on the front, you will be well over your FTP, and while those pulls usually only last around 30 seconds, you’ll clock almost 20 pulls over the course of 48k.
Physiologically speaking, a TTT is one of the best combined AC/MAP/FTP sessions out there. Regardless of your chosen discipline, Rider Type, or rider weakness, this effort will push you to your limits, and you’ll be faster for it.
Ride with Team DPF
Join VIPs and Davis Phinney Foundation staff on Zoom for Stage 1: 8:30 am MST(Boulder, CO USA)
Remember, you have 50 hours to complete each stage. As long as it’s still today’s date anywhere on earth, you’re golden. Check out the Tour Challenge Page for details on stage open and close times.
Stage 1 done. Most definately probably not More Than You. Heart rate was way too high for the “Just get me through it” FTP reduction. I didn’t touch the MAP or AC power. It was still……Oooyyyy.
I love this workout. It is masterful. It’s the same every time: at about 40:00, I’m getting bored and a little tired, and the trance music is irritating the SUF out of me. Then the DS puts on some nice, driving rock to lift this Gen X heart and I can keep going. At the hour mark, I’m dying, but there’s just enough left to get me through if I remember:
Great first stage. I was fatigued before I started. The last 15 minutes were tough but having the DS “cheering” me on was helpful. Always enjoyed the Prorides for that added element of the workout.
The finish was the best…the short video for the DPF.
I’ve been doing the tour since 2020 or 21. It has changed a lot. But I ride it for the cause. I read the criticism here and on Facebook about the changes or even the name of the tour.
I get it. I also miss the people who made this a great training platform. Wahoo is no longer putting the resources or effort towards the product. I put that all aside when riding the tour. The cause is great.
Tomorrow I ride stage 2.
First things first, when you complete it and sync with Strava, it uploads with a custom Stage 1 image. But, unfortunately, with the Hooligan name.
On the eve of the German election and after demonstrating against right-wing extremism today, am not putting that nonsense on my Strava feed. So here’s an edited one for your Strava feeds, one which doesn’t make light of right-wing violence.
Oh man, this one was horrible for me.
Ran 3 miles last night and 5 miles this morning.
After lunch set up for Team Scream.
Besides being sore, there were other issues.
I am on a dumb trainer with a left only PM on my bike.
For this type of workout with constantly changing intervals it is just too hard to keep up. Often too fast to change gears for the new targets, so I just try to adjust cadence to hit targets. I did not do a very good job of that.
Also, as mostly a MTB’er - I need breaks. The hour plus long workout without real breaks is just hard for me.
So, Suffer I did.
On to Stage 2.
. Time zones are hard when we have 50h!
I have thousands of miles in Intervals, so this was a bit of a surprise reading.