More riding along, and some rambling
Well it do look like winter finally got here. And it got here in a big way. I'm listening to frozen rain pelting the windows. It's supposed to turn into snow sometime tonight. Why it's not snowing already is a mystery to me. The temperature is hanging tight in the upper 20's. This was a good day for a ride on the old trainer.
I did a little experimenting with cadence tonight, just to see if this muscular endurance idea made any sense. I set my sights on around 100TSS in the sweet spot - intensity factor in the upper 80's. I thought I'd ride 4 separate 20 minute segments - Easy stuff. Not intervals, not this time of year... These were not painful in the least. - at 4 separate cadences.
What I found is that the really low cadence stuff is murder on my back. It didn't take more than a few minutes of pedaling squares - even easy squares - for my back to shoot me a clear message that this was clearly a bad idea and would I please stop immediately. Not wanting to risk another lost season, I agreed to my back's demands.
So that experiment didn't take long. After that I selected a couple of gears in which I could turn between 85 and 95 rpm and all was well once again.
You guys can have your muscular endurance work. I'll get plenty of it grinding up hills when the weather's good enough to allow it.
OK so who's up for a ride tonight? Rumor has it the Unit and his crew are headed out for a group gravel grind tonight. Should we have a lottery on the number who show up? Unit, if you really are crazy enough to lead a group out tonight you better let us in on the story.
The storm's picking up speed. The dog won't even want to go out in this mess. Hot chocolate sounds like a good idea.
Crazy A$$ Unit
Unit actually called me earlier tonight to see if I was going to do a snow race. Unfortunatly I dont much feel like riding in the freezing rain. I also have my small car which I know wont do well on freezing roads. As for tommorow if the weather is still nasty then I wont be able to make it to work, I have to drive to Sedalia and thats a long drive for nasty conditions. I had today off and did a little trainer work. Be safe, and Unit if your rode tonight fill me in. it would have been a very interesting ride to say the least
No one would answer the call
I called the usual group of nuts, and no one would answer, or commit, so I headed out, but decided to bag it when nothing worked. I couldn't see a thing.
I hit the trainer to deal with the aggression I had. I needed some release, and got it. No idea what the power was, but it felt really good to get some venom out.
I will definitely ride outside today or tonight. I have GOT to experience this record snow on a bike!
Anyone want to give it a try? Call me up and put some fatties on....