Day 201

Went out for a threshold test today to see how much my fitness went down over the winter.  It seems my threshold power is down to about 225, which I guess is to be expected, but a little discouraging.  I'm going to repeat the test in a couple of weeks, since I think part of the reason for the low value might be that I haven't done anything but low intensity rides for the past 7 or 8 months.  I think I might just need to wake some of those muscles up a bit.  After a 15min warm up, I tried to keep it above 230W for 30min, then rode back slowly.  Overall, I did 42.31km in 1:32:37, for an avg speed of 27.4, avg power 169W (193 normalized).  This threshold test would put me in about the same place I was at the end of May last year, but with more kms in my legs, and so likely more endurance.  It'll be interesting to see how things go in a couple of weeks, but I wouldn't be too surprised if my threshold were up to around 250W.