I gotta stop reading the forum before I workout… I couldn’t let this challenge go unmet, so I decided to tick up the intensity by 1% per interval!
This led to a pretty good mantra though: “as the ride gets longer, I only get stronger”. 
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Wow, what an utterly excellent idea! Why didn’t I think of that? I will keep it in mind til next session with such definer intervals. Maybe Nine Hammers or something? 
Heard that is a good workout, yet still to try it myself.
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You’ll experience Nine Hammers on the second stage. What a glorious debut.
While I applaud your idea of increasing intensity. Word of advice: Don’t do it with Nine Hammers. Not on your first ride.
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Haha, yeah, I have heard it is quite infamous so don’t worry, I won’t do that any time soon! 
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Team Scream, what an awesome workout !! As was mentioned in the description I was completely done when I finished. Reached max heartrate and kept it there for 1 minute…Tomorrow rest day and two Endurance rides in the weekend.
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Another vote for team scream. Keeps me entertained while I lose copious amounts of holy water and listen to my legs cry out for me to stop.
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Chasing legends is an already legendary workout. Really tough, had to dial down after 50min. The documentary is entertaining enough to keep you occupied. I like the way when the race footage is on you have to suffer just as hard.
Excellent job.
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@ArnoKOS Totally agree! I did it today as well for my second time and look forward to doing it again.
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I did Chasing Legends today and it was exactly what I needed. Prep plan is really working for me and I’m looking forward to my first ToS.
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Did Chasing Legends yesterday, loved it except when the pace got intense my heart started pounding and I found myself trying to sprint along with them and had to back off to the power target 
I did Chasing Legends on Friday and Half the Road, yesterday , plus Open 30. Team Scream
Killed me and I was struggling during parts of Chasing Legends, but I felt great last night and felt like I could’ve kept riding except it was getting late. Also was the first time I’ve ridden at night is as long as I can remember. It felt great and I feel like my legs are coming back and my motivation suddenly returned. Now to see how I do this week. I may need to throw in some long rides on some of my off days. Maybe I need to do some more night riding.
/cue Knight Rider theme
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I want to put a plug in for ‘Half the Road’ (did it today) - I thought it was the best put together inspiration ride I’ve done (in my short time in SUF).
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should have done that one last Sunday but the weather was really nice, cold but sunny.
Liked my outside ride.
Still have something to look forward to.
I just finished Revolver and I was going to say I have no idea how I finished it, but I do know how I finished it. I can only give credit to the Mental Toughness Plan.
I am mostly following the intermediate prep plan, but deviated by not resting on Tues, with a tough workout on Wed, and a reduced effort but still tough workout yesterday with little sleep. So I went in to Revolver this morning on fatigued legs and not enough sleep. When the beginning of the warm up felt hard I knew I was in for it. The first interval was so hard that I was already considering reducing the intensity and planning my excuses.
But I told myself to just see how many intervals I could get thru. Then I told myself I just needed to get thru the extra long interval. Then I told myself I was almost halfway. At the end of almost every single interval I was on the erg mode death spiral but still pedaling. Every interval felt like the last one I was going to finish. Then I only had 5 more. Then 4 more. Then 3 more. Then I knew I was going to be able to finish them all, and I was truly amazed at myself. My last 2 intervals were the strongest and I told myself to give everything I had on the final interval and kept my cadence up above 90 for the whole interval
And now here I am honestly stunned I made it all the way thru, knowing that the only reason I did them all was because I kept telling myself to keep going and I that I couldn’t and wouldn’t quit. And so I didn’t.
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That is some excellent work right there Sir @emacdoug! Sounds like you are om schedule for the tour 
Made some alterations to the plan myself. Improvised Igniter and Recharger on Monday, which was a rest day. Then did Nine Hammers instead of the Frozen Road which I moved to rest day on Thursday. Yesterday I did Defender which I dialled up FTP by 2% for each interval. Which made 14 Vice Grips a bit heavy today, so dialled MAP down a few % there.
Getting ready!!
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Revolver here too, it was the toughest ride. I m still compliant with the Prep Plan and after Getting Away With It on Thursday, I knew Revolver was going to be hard.
Started out on ERG but after 4 intervals my breathing was already out of control so I had to apply some more rest in-between and Level mode and just see what I could do.
Surprised myself, I just fell 6% short of the 4DP goal.
Taper week coming up and I feel that I need it.
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I’m taking advantage of a lull between winter storms to ride outside today and will aim to do 14 Vise Grips tomorrow instead.
Edit: great 4 hour ride which I hadn’t been able to do for a while; it’s a different kind of fatigue in the legs afterwards. About 70% of it was Z2 or lower work, with a few hard efforts on certain sections.
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Moon Rider today. Wow! I knew of him from before, but now I feel I know him. Truly inspirational!
He have/had one of the best mustaches in the peloton btw.
Cadence Builds and Holds today. You get warned but still it hurts more than you think…
So… you are all prepping and I’m here at the end of my recovery, figuring out if I’ll take the plunge or not.
Make GvA proud, right?