Two Wheel Blogs

Not a bad day's effort, for a Thursday. Nearly 2 hours of base-building work. Fully 80% of it spent pedaling in L3 and L4, also known as Tempo and Threshold.

Didn't I say today would be a big TSS day?

What a day. This is November?

Temperatures were a little chilly this afternoon. When I walked in the door at about dark o'clock the thermometer said 49° but it felt like more like 39° Low humidity does that. In a month or so I'll be wishing for another one of these days in the high 40's.

I got a little more than an hour and a half of L2-L4 work in today, a total of a little more than 110 TSS. Also not bad for November. The best part about the whole ride had to be the colors. Every corner I turned, every hill I topped, every minute that passed another scene like this one presented itself.

Yessireee... sure glad it's the weekend. This week's been one particularly heinous brand of hell for yours truly.

The stress levels at work keep ratcheting up as the hours and the workload increases. Ordinarily it's manageable because the days are longer this time of year. The weather's warm. A nice ride zeros out a day's worth of stress in just a few minutes. But not this week.

This week the weather hasn't been cooperating in the least. I don't remember a June as wet as this one has been.

At 3:57 this afternoon I told the guy I was talking to on the phone I was calling it a day at 4 o'clock. I told him it had been a tough day at the end of a tough week, and that 4 pm was the light at the end of the tunnel for me. He started talking faster, got down to business and wrapped it up with almost 30 seconds to spare.

Ten minutes later I was suited up and headed for the door.

I had in mind to get in a decent tempo workout today. Bobber and I have plans for an interval session in the morning, so I wanted to loosen up the legs and get the cobwebs out of the system. As it turns out I overshot my goal by a wide margin. My tempo workout somehow turned into threshold workout.

This is amazing. As long as I've lived in these parts the standard "30% chance of scattered thundershowers" forecast has always meant "You might see some clouds this afternoon. Other than that, have a great ride." I must have missed the announcement where they turned that upside down.

Good thing for me I got mine before the tempest. This morning was perfect for a ride. When the thunder started rumbling in the distance it was time to head for the barn. Just like yesterday, but this time without quite as much thunder and lightening.

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: