Why am I thinking of the Yazz & the Plastic Population song 
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Well, with Christmas and NY well and truly over managed to only slip CTL to 86 from the 100 ish mark, so not too badā¦ and got it stabilised again now a few days inā¦ only shocker has been 2 weeks without swimming, so Fridayās pyramid was āunpleasantāā¦
back on itā¦ just over 7 months to Copenhagenā¦
GC says Iām āProductiveā with VO2Max of 48 and Load of 592 (whatever that means!)
Iāll have it back >90 by the start(ish) of Februaryā¦
Second swim for me today at lunchtime; felt much better than at 06.30 last Friday. I used the paddles a lot, to try and get the upper body going again after Xmas.
Runalyze has my CTL at 53. Thatās a nice low number to start building up from.
At the time I had no idea why it was happening as ANT should support more than one device. I now suspect that it was as you describe, it was processing a different crank length from my PC and from Garmin
Apologies actually; when I had the dropouts due to crank settings, it was causing drops on Zwift too. But if everything has the same crank length, then having various Garmin devices recording, it shouldnāt affect Zwift in my experience.
Just digging through my training from last year, to replicate my lead up to Wilmslow Half Marathonā¦
ā¦I thought my notes were wrong, so nipped over to Stravaā¦
ā¦NOPE!
My longest run in the 16 weeks before it was 13.7km, which was the week before.
Two weeks before it, I ran ONCE, for 4.4km!
The week before that, I ran twice. Totalling 16km.
I averaged 16 miles per week leading up to it and never ran over 14kmā¦
ā¦and I managed my speed work as one session per fortnight, with a couple of parkrunsā¦
ā¦after I said Iād repeat that, it doesnāt appear to be the best plan of action!!!
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First swim in months today.
Ugh.
Wow, that is ālightā!
Sub optimal Iād sayā¦
Or perfectly optimalā¦
ā¦no real goals, other than sub-1:30 (4% āmadeā me line up at the 1:25 pacer) and I was super rested.
No pressure in 2019.
And I PBd at two of my favourite distances (HM and HIM)
But youāre no way near your potential capability then.
(no way being relative of course)
Hopefully you are just quoting Instagram platitudes.
I would like to knock a minute or two off that time this yearā¦but the move is pencilled in for that week 
So targeting a 1:24:xx instead.
Not chasing times and being more relaxed about the whole racing thing makes it more enjoyable
YES!!!
That looks great 
Proper off season.
Probably one of my first posts on this thread that truly lives up to the title!
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Steve, that is shocking
For me, little dip over Christmas, ramping back up since Jan 1st
Partly planned. Partly no other choice.
Malaga was the week before Christmas so I had a lot going on there, and then Singapore, Sydney and now Perth were an intentional, proper break. I havenāt had a true few weeks off in years. And most pros talk about that being a good thing. With what weāve been up to, there hasnāt been much of an opportunity to do much anyway.
Somewhat necessary too. Plantar fascia in my right foot really hasnāt settled down since Malaga. Will have to focus on rehab for that when I get back. Canāt imagine 24/7 flip flops is great support! Probably going to be a lot of cycling on the horizon, which is likely a good thing for an ironman year. Annie Haug and Skipper show you can recover the ironman run fairly quickly
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