12 Week Challenge Results · Morpheus Cycling

Oswald Ling

Jan 5 • 🏆 Wins

12 Week Challenge Results

I’ve finished the 12 Week Challenge to improve my power over 1 hour.

Here’s what I wrote 12 weeks ago:

🎯 ’’I’m Oswald, 19 years old from Hong Kong.

I’m doing this challenge to win some podium in 2026.

Couple months ago I found that I’m lack of motivation and I got stuck with training planning.

My current power for 1 hour is 192 Watts and I want to improve that by at least 3% to 198 Watts.

I hope I can know more about planning for training and know more about myself. Also I’m hoping I will be back to racing in 2026 with a stronger myself and shock people with that.’’

📊 My 12 Week Challenge Results

% Improvement: 11%

Result test 1: 192 W

Result test 2: 211 W

Result test 3: 209 W

Result test 4: 213 W

Workouts planned: 68

Workouts completed 🟢green: 65

% completed 🟢green: 96%

Honestly, I’m proud of it. I started this because I felt stuck and unmotivated, and now I’ve got real numbers to prove I’m moving again.

Going from 192W → 213W for 1 hour is not “lucky”—it’s consistency and structure paying off.

Consistency beats “perfect” weeks. Even with life happening, if the overall completion stays high, the fitness still comes.
Testing is feedback, not judgement. The tests helped me understand where I am, instead of guessing.
Recovery is part of training. I actually got sick about a week before one of the tests and had one full week off the bike, which was frustrating, but it also taught me to respect my body and not force training when I’m not healthy.

Yes. My goal is podiums in 2026, and 1-hour power is a big piece of that. This challenge didn’t just raise my FTP-ish power, it also made me more confident about planning and executing training.

Even with the sickness setback, I still finished with an 11% improvement—that tells me I’m building something solid for 2026.

Liked:

Clear structure and accountability — I stopped “thinking too much” and just followed the plan.
The progress is measurable — I can actually see my training working.
The community vibe — seeing other people’s results kept me going.

Disliked:

When I got sick, I felt guilty and stressed because I “missed a week.” In hindsight that’s a mindset issue I need to fix: recovery isn’t failure, it’s strategy.
Testing can be mentally heavy sometimes, especially if you don’t feel 100%—but it’s still useful data.

Anyone who feels stuck, lacks motivation, or doesn’t know how to structure training. Especially riders who want a clear path and proof of progress.

If you can follow a plan and show up most days, this challenge works.

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12 Week Challenge Results