Thanks! That would be helpful! It's one of the few jobs that I won't just force my 15 year old to do, because I don't trust he'll do it well enough lol... I can have him take the shop vac to the blinds elsewhere in the house where they're not so nasty.
On the subject of PZE gains, I had an interesting ride today. I had been off the bike since Saturday (played golf yesterday), so I had big plans for a big ride... Denis has a new 60-min PZ with 5 min blocks of Z4, 3 min blocks of Z5, and 1 min blocks of Z6. But... Then the day kept dragging, and I thought "well I can do a 45 or 60 PZE instead", and the day kept dragging, and I said "I just need to get on the bike for SOMETHING." So I picked
Emma's 30 minute Yeah Yeah Yeahs ride. The difficulty was only 7.6, and looking at the metrics it said the top of the callouts was something like 319 kJ, so lower than a 30-minute PZE for me typically.
I got on the bike, and something just caused me to ride above the top of the callouts. Generally I was hugging the top of the resistance (except for the flat road section, which I was well above), but I was tending to higher cadence than she called out the whole ride. And I'm looking at the time, and where my output is, and thinking "hey, I'll probably hit 400+!" And I did. With the final minute push I ended up at 417.
But the funny thing about it was... It just wasn't that hard! That's an output on a 30 minute ride that would have left me struggling and breathless 6 months ago. And yeah, it was
*WORK*, but I just kept chugging along, and never felt like I was pushing too hard or that it was too much.
I almost feel like a different person compared to where I was a year ago, when I had just ordered the Bike+ and was waiting for it to show up. And then adding in PZ was a step change when I finally did my FTP in December. It's insane that I'm going to pass 7K minutes for the year tomorrow. I don't think that I've *ever* had that much exercise over that period of time in a year... And... I don't hate it lol!