Wahoo X November Challenge - The Sufferfest

It’s only 3 hours and 29 minutes which is still less than 3 hours and 30 minutes :joy:

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there should be an assessment ‘which of these images do you remember seeing in HIE?’ and if you remember more than 50% you probably need to test your AC again.

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The Model is done. What a beautiful workout. Stunning.

Will there be more like it soon, @Rupert.H ?

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I agree! The Model is one of my favorites, visually. I love the wide screen ratio changes and the animated words. Just captivating.

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It isn’t but what a view! And congratulations on completing the challenge :sweat:

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I think I’ll start this Saturday with the Model at 23:02 so it will be completed on the next (Sun)day at 00:01 and then I can ride the other three in succession and am already finished around 2:40 and can go to sleep after that :slight_smile:

For once it will have maybe an advantage the end time of a workout counts for the calendar entry.
I hope that will satisfy the criteria of “all four workouts in a single day”. This way they will be listed on the systm calendar on the same day. At intervals.icu, Strava and all other sites it will be split up over two days.

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Just finished… managed all 4 in one sitting.

Order of Service: Team Scream, The Model, HIE then finished off with GAWI.

Jeezo, the last 30 mins were just hanging on.

Kudos to all the finishers so far and this just shows how much fortitude the Knights and Dames of our Glorious Nation have.

Still mulling the Knighthood next year.

Much (tough) love to GvA for lining up this November Challenge.

#morethanyou

:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Did this today. Sir @Glen.Coutts and a certain bookcase killing Dame twisted my arm… kinda

Brutal. Took a few minute break in the middle to grab more water and food.

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#morethanme :slight_smile:

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Unfortunately Knighthood is out after this test. Knee that needs replacing did not like the last 30 minutes.

Recon I move it from my Bucket List to my F (rhymes with bucket) List. At my advanced age I only have two lists.

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Did you do this as an endurance event? 65-75 %

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Yes sir. IF 0.68. ~160TSS.

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I don’t really do the IF and TSS thing. Did you have each of the videos dialed back to 65-75% of your targets and are you working off accurate numbers with a recent Full Frontal?

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Well, which is a deep subject, I did set the numbers to a little more than 75% of my FTP.
One MUST suffer eh?

As for my FTP… I did some outdoor efforts a couple weeks back just because; a 40 minute, 45 minute and a 51 minute effort at what I thought would be 90%.

That seemed like my pooridge was just right. Does that mean I got every watt out of tbose efforts? Not at all but I am a ‘measure with a laser, mark with a crayon and cut with an axe’ type after using a power meter for a decade plus.

if I am off by more than 4% when I do FF I will be surprised.

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Did the exact same order of rides and yeah, the last 30 minutes were just well, tiring.
But what intensity did you do all the rides with? 100%?

Entertain that idea with me. Hahaha I entertained the idea and have set forth the plan for May 2024

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4% hey. Hmmm. Let us o is how it goes then :wink:

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And typically my indoor number is ~7% less than outdoors just due to “this sucks”. :upside_down_face:

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I’m sorry, I’m not allowed to discuss this with you until after you’ve done FF. :smiling_imp:

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Sir, they were completed at 80% until GAWI.

Had to really dial it down at this point. Was at 60% by the last half of the vid.

Still the Knighthood beckons me on though. Could maybe get through it all at 75%

:+1:

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Anyhow well done on getting all four of them done in one session!

I did my first 3 at 100% and the last one was at 80%, and yet it was terrible. Hahaha
But I am not sure if the others did what I did which was to take a break no more than 10 minutes between each ride.

Yeah, you definitely could! But as the fatigue wears in, it’s not surprising to dial it down further. :wink:

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