Yeah, but you stopped for a sit-down meal.
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Still #9, though, innit 
Iām not sure Eggs Benedict qualifies as badass 
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Does that say Waitrose?!
Yeah boy, itās the onslaught of the eggs benedict toting, Acaccia Avenue masif 
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Acacia Avenue actually (not even literally!) runs parallel to my road 
The Flemish tan lines might disagree
Just made a comment on the Barcelona thread about how itās now time for me to āget unfitā for the winter. Iāve been using training peaks for a good few years and I changed the Performance management tool to show my progress since 2014 which shows a steady year in year out pattern. I had a look and almost every year the bottom of the trough coincides either with Christmas Day or New Year.
A few times Iāve tried to buck the trend and get back at it sooner but my body and mind always say no. Itās helped me develop the confidence to trust that no matter how low my motivation gets over the dark months come spring time things can come good.
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Following my 21km painful run on Friday, did a 15k run back from office (with backpack). Aim was to keep it nice and easy and go on feel, ignoring watch (which was buried under my rain jacket. It felt really good. I was surprised to see it was 80% in zone 3, I felt that I was really holding back, certainly not breathless. Pace was 4:50/km with a good negative split which is reasonable for an easy 15k run.
Overall so different to last Friday
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Iām the same, however, this year I am aiming to keep CTL around 90. Last year it was just above 50 after New Year. Since my season ended I am up to 76kg, around 5kg up on my lowest point, would be good to stay around 75 before a big drive in Q1 to get to race weight for Lanza
Thats recovery?! 
I only spent three weeks above 100 this year 
Dropped to 39 until few weeks ago, have clawed it back to 50 so far and i thought that was training pretty hard for off-season.
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I raced at 90 something. For my winter recovery I will go down to 20-30, although I am not monitoring over the winter and may not bother tracking my CTL/CSS next year as I know what my fitness is, and I have found I am a better judge of fatigue than the formula.
My body needs recovery time. I had a hard (for me) 8 month block this year, plus Lyme disease. Now that I have finished events for the year I have niggles popping up. Very tired. Lower back issues. Just small things that need rest to improve.
Maybe I will drop it a little, but find that 90 is pretty easy to maintain, Riding to work and back is typically 130, a 10k run is around 60, swim is 50, Saturday club ride is 160. So commuting twice a week and saturday ride is 420, add 2 swims and 3 runs, I am up to 700, which is a CTL of 100, which gives me a little scope to drop a commute or run. As it gets colder, I may reduce commuting and add Zwift ride instead
My CTL is steady around low-mid 90s currently. That involves 10-12h/week of which at least half is cycle commuting or Zwift. Actually only running 2x/week at the moment, and not particularly hard. Hardest sessions are Zwift or swim intervals at the mo. Peak was 120 on the last day of IM training, after 4 weeks of ~16h/week.
@stenard you may know this. Does the Runalyze CTL equate to the same CTL as TP (which is what i assume everyone on here is quoting)?
I imagine you can get them to match by appropriately selecting the threshold levels etc. But I donāt really focus on my swim and bike numbers in there. Runalyze has me at 103 whereas TP has me at 86, so quite a bit lower
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Iām wondering if I might just make my Strava private; I mean, I donāt show on leaderboards with my settings (unless I change discrete sessions) and I only really use it to see maps of where Iāve been. I mainly use TP for volume/CTL general conditioning etc nowadays.
Thatās what i did. I only ever compare segments, volumes etc to myself so decided it was better to default to private and change individual activities to public if an when required.
I record my commutes now I wear a Garmin all day and was always aware that, after a couple of minor altercations, people might try and use it to look you up. I have a privacy zone around work and home as well.