The racing season doesn’t start until March, but we’re (my coach and I) already adding some intensity into the training, looking towards a late-December/early-January first peak. Four months of endurance and threshold riding is starting to give way to some shorter VO2 Max efforts. I actually didn’t have much trouble with these efforts today. When we were doing VO2 Max last year, I remember wheezing at the end of each 3-minute effort. But today, even pushing it up to the top of my zone in the last interval, I was breathing a little heavy, but nothing close to what I was doing last year. Scheduled for a power test this weekend so I’ll likely have some adjusted numbers that will help to induce wheezing in future workouts.