Arrrghh!! Its short intervals time

Yes those painful suckers you have to do on the turbo before racing starts, especially if you're not lucky enough to join a weekly chain gang . I hadn't planned on starting them for another fortnight but having read Steve Saunders blog yesterday morning I decided it was time to see what being close to my maximum heart rate feels like again. Ouch pain!! Now I tend not to do the 1 min off 1 min on variety. My intervals are just pursuit style/VO2 max efforts: 4 x 6 mins or 5 x 5 (which I did yesterday)all above your one hour threshold. For the first time in a while I hit 94% of my maximum heart rate which lets be honest is never fun. I'll probably do one set a week now until racing begin in late March