Two Wheel Blogs

I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off I sat and wondered...

I've had that song in my head all day. It really was raining and thundering when I woke up. It's amazing how a song you haven't heard in years just pops into your head and you can hear it like the original. Such is memory.

Muscles work the same way. Get them all firing in a certain sequence, repeat it over and over, and eventually you end up grooving that move. If you groove the right firing sequence you get optimum results. For us cyclists that means plenty of power from a motion we can perform millions* of times without harming the engine.

I blew my season away this year by grooving the wrong firing sequence. Poor bicycle fit and the resulting bad posture bought me good wattage, but the price was a nagging injury that's taking nearly a year to get over.

I've been working on getting my muscles to forget the bad firing sequence and learning a new one.

The rain today didn't bother me one bit. A solid hour on my trainer focusing on decent mechanics is just what I needed. I kept the intensity in the low-moderate range. No suffering! Too much pain and suffering causes a reversion back to the "old" groove.

I don't know whether it will be three weeks or three months, but I intend to ride like this until I've forgotten all about my back problems.

* Yes, millions:

        90	Cadence: rpm
   x    60	minutes/hour
   x     7	hours of riding per week
   x    52	weeks/year
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 1,965,600 	Revolutions per year