{"id":1933,"date":"2015-11-07T18:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:35:26","slug":"first-of-the-indoor-rides-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/07\/first-of-the-indoor-rides-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"First of the indoor rides in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it was -1\u00b0C this morning and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1403626316581127\/permalink\/1642976259312797\/\">3 dedicated\u00a0FOG brothers<\/a> made the traditional Saturday ride, I opted for the warmth of the basement and Kickr trainer with Trainerroad. I&#8217;ve selected the Trainer Road <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/cycling\/plans\/146-sweet-spot-base-low-volume-ii\">Sweet Spot Base &#8211; Low Volume II<\/a> to kick off the winter indoor training regime.<\/p>\n<p>First up on the plan is the\u00a08 Minute test to determine my current FTP.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/428155123\/embed\/165114fddd092bb2b4c4d8feb71e4aeebe4c3535\" width=\"590\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAfter a pretty laid back summer of riding I knew that my FTP was going to drop from the last test and sure enough all the way from 308 down to 284. Due to an injury there was no bike riding for over a month and many weekends at the lake had company or family so it just didn&#8217;t seem appropriate to bail on a Saturday morning for 4 hour of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Underground-Gran-Fondo-Kenora-208507745971466\/?fref=ts\">Underground\u00a0Gran Fondo Kenora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to stick with the plan and get in shape for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesufferfest.com\/sufferlandrian-community\/sufferlandrian-national-events\/\">Tour of Sufferlandria<\/a> (23 January to 1 February) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trainerroad.com\/8dc-2015\/garry\">8 Days in California<\/a>\u00a0(May 15-22) \u00a0which sadly I was unable to ride in 2015. the 8 Days event corresponds with the pros riding\u00a0the Tour of California, outside, with much nicer scenery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it was -1\u00b0C this morning and 3 dedicated\u00a0FOG brothers made the traditional Saturday ride, I opted for the warmth of the basement and Kickr trainer with Trainerroad. I&#8217;ve selected the Trainer Road Sweet Spot Base &#8211; Low Volume II to kick off the winter indoor training regime. First up on the plan is the\u00a08 [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grab-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","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=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}