VO2-Max Part 3

The final installment was performed yesterday. This time the supplement was not the sweet pineapple juice of last week but a disgusting brown murky concoction that smelt like vineger and tasted horrendous.

I didn't feel well from the start of the test, a very hard weekend of riding left quite a bit of fatigue in the legs.

Strangely this last test had me record a VO2Max of 56 (best yet) but I went for 2 minutes less than last week.. BUT my lactate readings were very very low on this test, something like 1.9m/mol @ 70% vo2max and a resting lactate of 0.8m/mol.

So there you have it, lower lactate, higher VO2 but I didn't last as long (? muscular fatigue as the overriding factor)

Below is a snap shot of my actual time @ 95% VO2:

Test 1 -> 6.11min (nil supplements) 55 Vo2

Test 2 -> 8.20min (pineapple juice tasting supplement) 55 Vo2

Test 3 -> 6.40min (ghastly concoction) 56 Vo2

Hopefully I will be receiving more detailed analysis early in the new year whilst will provide a better insight into the number and what they potentially mean....