Two Wheel Blogs

I did it to myself again today. I went out just a little bit too lightly dressed for the weather. Honest to Pete it looked like a warm spring day out there; and as I headed out the door the sun felt good. I figured I had it about right - a little cool but not cold.

Boy was I wrong. It only took about 15 minutes before my feet started to get cold. I fought the good fight but fell just short of my goal of 2+ hours of threshold pace.

Like the title says, it must be the time of year. The temperatures look and feel warm but riding through it is a lot colder. I have ridden in much colder temperatures and not felt as cold as I did today. Lesson learned, add one more layer if it's only in the 40's but it looks like the 60's.

Just short of my 2 hour goal I lost the motivation. My feet were blocks of ice and my focus had shifted from riding well to just getting through it. I took the shortcut and headed for home.

Not a very good way to train for the Ouachita Challenge, eh?

My SRM said that my power output was decent today. I wasn't really trying to push it because I wanted to go long, rather than hard. It's kind of fun to look down and see decent numbers in the display when you aren't really working all that hard.

The chart is a plot of my power with 10-second smoothing. TSS wise, I really had in mind to bag a 200 pointer but ended up with only a touch over 180. My performance manager chart's starting to look decent again. Days like this push CTL back up over the 100 mark. If my back holds out - yes, it's been sending me little reminders again lately - I might just get back up to some of those old training levels from days gone by soon.

Now wouldn't that be cool.