When you have a fluid trainer every day is the good ole days!!
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Definitely feeling the fatigue in the legs - they just abandoned me at a few points, but I still scraped my sorry, sweating, beaten ass to the finish. Those last sprints, I hardly remember them⌠the last one is just a blur of my knees spinning and me holding on for dear life, while my heartrate is screaming âwhat did I do to deserve this?â
But I love how a session like this can make threshold power feel like recovery. Those AC sprints are gnarly.
Early to bed tonight. Starting to embrace the idea that Nuclear might claim me as a victim in a few days. But going to fight my hardest to make sure itâs not tomorrow.
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I enjoyed that!
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Tough but great. Much prefer the Womens race footage, and Yorkshire so even better!
The music at the end is beautiful, it reminds me of a scene from a hospital drama but instead of dying in intensive care they scrape you off your bike and drive you to the next stage
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Absolutely. One of my favorite cool-downs.
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Done. Kind of fun. Reminded of Fight Gone Bad, also brutal in a nice way. Fight gone bad
Onwards.
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Love seeing Yorkshire in the footage, and always feel for that poor athlete at the end. Although felt pretty much the same today.
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Yeah, Fight Club done, I hate it, not a racer type so struggle with the high cadences in the last 2 bouts.
Started thinking this is okay, doing it on focused seems like a cheatâs option, I wasnât thinking that by the end.
Time to relax and not think about tomorrowâs stage.
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30-10s. I did it on KCore. Itâs fine. Enjoy
Sweet mother of suffering⌠my legs are fried! I hope the quality time I spent with Abi after the ride helps for tomorrow!!!
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Just finished - not gonna lie - that last round was tough!!
These may be famous last words, but happy with how Iâm doing so far. My legs always ache in the evenings and feeling generally tired, but every day still managing to get on the bike and complete the session 
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Breathing totally out of control, heart rate high above the atmosphere, but legs almost ok (letâs see that tomorrow). Congrats!
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Youâve got to be kidding, Iâd rather have done another 6 minutes interval and attacks rather than listen to that. Iâve finally started using the Sufferfest sound tracks (loving them, and it means Iâm more a part of the Sufferfest Borg) but thatâs not a cool down track. Itâs not a chill out track.
The aural equivalent of an ice cold shower.
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Stage 3 done 
(100/100/100/88)
Mind and body are incredible. Self learning never ends.
Yesterday was really hard day for me, so bad feelings, my legs were totally toasted, I had to dialed down all numbers to 75% in order to finish.
And today⌠My first time with F___ C___âŚ
I ENJOYED it A LOT, as much as it becomes a new favorite workout for me, with GOAT and Joyride.
BOOM!!! 
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YAAAAAS! HELLO ENDORPHINS!
Things I did not need to read half way through âyouâre tired, your legs are heavy, youâre soreâ why remind me?!?!
I had to prewarn my husband whoâs WFH 2 rooms down that if he heard shouting or screaming it wasnât anything to worry about, just me telling my legs to sort their lives out. But I was likely going to text him to help me off the bike at the end.
Confession: I usually just have the mini player on and watch something distracting or watch the video and have my German playlist on (best way to learn a language for me, German dance/pop!) But I saw it was Yorkshire so I did vid and music and BOY am I glad I did! I actually enjoyed (some of) that!
Main thoughts:
âOoooof this looks a bit brutalâ
âOoooh look! Look at the sign post, thatâs [insert town] Iâve been there!!â
"Hey, oh is that Ripon? OMG I think thatâs where tough mudder is! "
"Yorkshire flag! (In a Yorkshire accent) EEEEYORRRRRRKSHuuuuuuuR!! (X3) "
âIs, is that? No itâs not is it? Is that York? Could that be the racecourse?â
âLeeds? Or Harrogate? Where am I??â
All of the above interspersed with
"OH MY ACTUAL HOLY *@&ÂŁ&@!!! WHYYYYY?!?!? "
âcome ON legs you useless chumps! Please legs, Iâm sorry, I love you, youâre amazing you can DO THISâ
Flying high ATM. Well.done everyone! And good luck to those still to smash it!
Iâm off to down some bone broth⌠Followed by pancakes!
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Absolutely brutal. My power graph in those last two sets was like this: WWWWW. Does that still count as going 100%?!
At least Iâve got a full 24+ hours before I do stage 4
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I also enjoyed that one we donât talk about. Like others have said it suits Attackers and that is what the metrics have me pinned as! It got ruddy hot again inside though. - 30 ish outside. After getting off done, Resulted in this
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Yeah, it was brutal. I did have to check the calibration when the warm up seemed so hard after 2 days of Sufferfest followed by DIY.
I was beaten down on intervals 3, 4 and 5, but not quite knocked out. I know I lost on points but I kept fighting.
Iâll try to keep to nuclear tomorrow but if I canât do it will turn it down a long way tomorrow, so I can attack in Norway.
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Iâm an attacker, so today played to my strengths (unlike 9H). It almost felt like a recovery day compared to the first two days (admittedly, Iâm focused and not nuclear). Iâm feeling surprisingly good for almost halfway through my first ToS!
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