Two Wheel Blogs

I'm enjoying this new direction in training. In a way I wish I had plenty of time and no obstacles to get in the way of training up for some "next" event; but unfortunately that's not the case. Rather than whine about it I fully intend to have as much fun with it as possible. Today weren't no exception.

First of all though, have a look at this:

I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked out the window and saw my thermometer this afternoon. No doubt it had been sitting in the sun because it wasn't anywhere near that warm out. I think we topped 90°F here today, a record high. Hey you know with a global warming induced furnace right outside my door I absolutely had to get out and ride in it.

I had in mind to ride tempo today. After an hour of that noise I checked Average Power and saw that I'd done just that. The problem with tempo is it isn't much fun. No way I could get off my bike after only an hour's training on the hottest day of the year (so far). What to do for fun? Throw down!

I found a little uphill section of road, a nice rise with - believe it or not - a speed limit sign right at the top. Perfect. Well almost perfect. I wanted to do 10 second seated efforts. As it turned out this little grade only afforded 7-8 seconds of neuromuscular chaos. I'll have to find a slightly longer one for next time. These things are fun!

What's watts? Too bad for me, I'm not officially a kilowatt guy. I had one interval where I averaged 1017 watts for 4 seconds. My best 5-second effort: a sub-kilowatt 986. I'm OK with it though. I did them seated.