I'm scared! First 20 minute FTP test tonight

[reginaphalange72]

So I finally bought a powermeter.  Super excited.  (Although, on my blog, it will be a "loaner from a friend" because my family already thinks I'm insane for all the gear I buy.)

Tonight I'm doing my first 20 minute FTP test and I'm both excited and terrified.  I'm doing the Sufferfest Rubber Glove video.  I was poking around online and found a really funny (and I'm sure, accurate) review of it just now (http://www.nonprocycling.com/2013/05/22/sufferlandrian-health-check-ouch/), and I laughed out loud when I got to this part:

The final 5 minutes though was sheer hell. I would rather have Andre the Giant snap on a rubber glove and give me a prostate exam. I felt like an octopus climbing Everest wearing an anchor as a hat! That was an actual thought I had, which will give you some idea of were my head was. My heart rate was as high as it has been for some time.

As I gasped for air using lungs that felt like I was a 5 pack a day smoker, the SufferCell time warp started happening.

And then when he's done:

I felt nothing. I was too damned tired to care. I wrapped the towel around my head and got off the bike. Well, I tried to get off the bike. That bloody octopus had dropped the anchor onto my shoe. I couldn’t lift my leg over the top tube. Three attempts before I was clear of the bike and sitting in a pool of my own sweat on the floor with a dog licking my arm.

I imagine my experience will be similar.

Hold me, H&F.  I'm scared!

[joenali]

I kind of love FTP tests!!

[reginaphalange72]

Jan 11, 2014 18:53:10 GMT -5 joenali said:

I kind of love FTP tests!!

You're sick.



But we love you anyway.

[taratru]

I don't even know what that means, but that review of it makes me never want to know. Good luck with that!

[labbie]

Jan 11, 2014 20:54:39 GMT -5 taratru said:

I don't even know what that means, but that review of it makes me never want to know. Good luck with that!

This!

[chw57]

I'm so jealous! Good luck!

[joenali]

How did it go?

I had my computrainer class this morning and I did my highest wattage ever, 363, for like 15 seconds lol!

[joenali]

How did it go?

I had my computrainer class this morning and I did my highest wattage ever, 363, for like 15 seconds lol!

[norbs]

Jan 11, 2014 18:44:56 GMT -5 reginaphalange72 said:

So I finally bought a powermeter.  Super excited.  (Although, on my blog, it will be a "loaner from a friend" because my family already thinks I'm insane for all the gear I buy.)

Tonight I'm doing my first 20 minute FTP test and I'm both excited and terrified.  I'm doing the Sufferfest Rubber Glove video.  I was poking around online and found a really funny (and I'm sure, accurate) review of it just now (http://www.nonprocycling.com/2013/05/22/sufferlandrian-health-check-ouch/), and I laughed out loud when I got to this part:

The final 5 minutes though was sheer hell. I would rather have Andre the Giant snap on a rubber glove and give me a prostate exam. I felt like an octopus climbing Everest wearing an anchor as a hat! That was an actual thought I had, which will give you some idea of were my head was. My heart rate was as high as it has been for some time.

As I gasped for air using lungs that felt like I was a 5 pack a day smoker, the SufferCell time warp started happening.

And then when he's done:

I felt nothing. I was too damned tired to care. I wrapped the towel around my head and got off the bike. Well, I tried to get off the bike. That bloody octopus had dropped the anchor onto my shoe. I couldn’t lift my leg over the top tube. Three attempts before I was clear of the bike and sitting in a pool of my own sweat on the floor with a dog licking my arm.

I imagine my experience will be similar.

Hold me, H&F.  I'm scared!

Thank you for the kind words regarding my blog post.

How did you go?