{"id":1564,"date":"2014-01-26T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2014-01-26T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T15:12:04","slug":"the-tour-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/the-tour-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tour begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesufferfest.com\/about-sufferfest\/blog\/\">Tour of Sufferlandria <\/a>has begun and I&#8217;ve just completed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/cycling\/rides\/660132-Sufferfest-Rubber-Glove\">Stage 1, Rubber Glove<\/a>. This 1hr Sufferfest video incorporates a 20 minute FTP test. I first did this video\/test back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/cycling\/rides\/497735-Sufferfest-Rubber-Glove\">November 23, 2013<\/a> and was a little disappointed that my FTP remained the same as it had been for all of 2013 at 288. I really struggled in the last 10 minutes and couldn&#8217;t hold the power output and had to slow down a fair bit just to finish. Yesterday was a different story. The test was still very hard, but at 10 minutes in I knew it was going better and I knew I&#8217;d make it all the way at or above the required power. I even managed a 1 minute sprint right at the end. The reward for training? An 8% FTP increase from 288 to 311!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1563\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-25-at-9.41.18-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1563\" alt=\"New FTP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-25-at-9.41.18-AM-300x168.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-25-at-9.41.18-AM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-25-at-9.41.18-AM-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-25-at-9.41.18-AM.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New FTP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The down side of this is that Trainerroad scales all the workouts against your current FTP, so the next 8 stages of the Tour are going to be even harder. Big stage today, 2 hours of &#8220;fun&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesufferfest.com\/video-sufferfests\/islagiatt\/\">It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour of Sufferlandria has begun and I&#8217;ve just completed Stage 1, Rubber Glove. This 1hr Sufferfest video incorporates a 20 minute FTP test. I first did this video\/test back in November 23, 2013 and was a little disappointed that my FTP remained the same as it had been for all of 2013 at 288. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}