Thanks David. Yeah, it pretty much sucked. But it didn’t take enough out of me that repeating the test next week should be an issue. So I’ll probably give it another try.
Interestingly, my Stryd auto CP still increased from this morning’s run. However, their (Stryd auto-CP and Steve Palladino) way of testing seems to result in a higher CP than 80/20, while prescribing runs at a lower percentage (70-80% of CP on easy runs, around 83% on long runs). The 80/20 zone 2, on the other hand, is 76-88% of CP. So I think the training intensity of both approaches is probably comparable, as long as you’re using the training program’s suggested testing protocol.