Uno-X Mobility\u2019s Tour de France<\/a> star just crash-landed out of his off-season with two weeks of pure Zwift punishment, capped by a heinous 5-hour interval session.<\/p>\n Abrahamsen\u2019s truly terrible 10 x 20-minute workout this weekend averaged more than 300 watts and was fueled at more than 500 calories per hour.<\/p>\n All told, Abrahamsen\u2019s first fortnight of training for 2026 included 20 hours of butt-numbing, brain-mashing indoor riding.<\/p>\n And that was only just the start.<\/p>\n Based in Oslo, the 30-year-old will be stuck indoors for many months through Norway\u2019s long, dark winter, praying for Uno-X\u2019s sunny team training camps to start.<\/p>\n Last winter, Abrahamsen worked up to more than 25 hours per week<\/a> staring at Zwift.<\/p>\n Yes. Twenty. Five. Hours.<\/p>\n Only weight-training sessions and some rare arctic expeditions on a CX bike broke the misery of Abrahamsen\u2019s Zwift masochism.<\/p>\n But here\u2019s the thing.<\/p>\n The crazed Norseman seems to love every minute<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes I like to do something crazy,\u201d Abrahamsen told Velo earlier this year.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes it does something with your head when you\u2019re going five, six hours on a home trainer. I think you get a new barrier, and you find extra motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n One good source of motivation for Abrahamsen this winter? All those stupid indoor sessions clearly work.<\/p>\n His thriller stage-win this summer at the Tour de France made all the time in Watopia worthwhile.<\/p>\n Abrahamsen is a lactate-guided carb monster It\u2019s intriguing to take a closer look<\/a> at Abrahamsen\u2019s 5-hour indoor odyssey.<\/p>\n Like all his Zwift workouts this winter, it was governed by lactate data.<\/p>\n The use of lactate testing to control interval workouts has been a part of pro cycling for years. However, at Uno-X Mobility<\/a>, this method of precision intensity control is heavily pushed by the team\u2019s trainer, Olav Alexander Bu.<\/p>\n The visionary physiologist<\/a> blew up triathlon and running with Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden through his pioneering lactate-guided training philosophy.<\/p>\n Abrahamsen\u2019s horrible 5 hours centered on 10 x 20-minute intervals at lactate threshold 1, the tipping point between \u201clight\u201d and \u201cmoderate\u201d intensity. This \u201caerobic threshold\u201d approximates to upper zone 2.<\/p>\n For Abrahamsen, that\u2019s a ridiculous 350 watts.<\/p>\n His 10 intervals progressed from 340 watts up to 375 watts.<\/p>\n Those are wild wattages for a supposed \u201call-day pace.\u201d Yes, Abrahamsen weighs in at 77-80kg, but the numbers still work out some way north of 4 w\/kg.<\/p>\n Another part of Bu\u2019s training philosophy?<\/p>\n Big carbs, all the time.<\/p>\n And Abrahamsen is clearly taking note. He gobbled 680 grams of carbohydrates during his session, the equivalent of 136g per hour. For context, 136 grams of carbohydrate is nearly 550 calories (!).<\/p>\n
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