Two Wheel Blogs

I spent a few minutes this afternoon designing a new interval protocol for myself. When I was done designing it, I saddled up on the trainer and put the interval protocol to the test.

I made it through the session, establishing an important data point. That is, I found there really is a whole world of interval workouts out there that can be accomplished as long as they're designed right.

The trick, of course, is to make them look so hard on paper that you have doubts about successfully completing them; but not so hard that you can't.

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I just sort of didn't feel like riding much today.

You know how it is. You think all day long about what sort of workout to do - that is, if you are your own coach - and when it finally comes time to do a workout you have nothing in mind.

When that happens to me I usually just go ahead and start riding and see what comes to me. Most times a warm up is all it takes to inspire me for whatever workout I should do on that day.

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?

I guess we got lucky today. The forecast I had last heard said it would be cooler this weekend, but wet. Yesterday certainly was. Today started out looking every bit the rainy day we all expected. Even thought the clouds threatened, they couldn't hold back the sun for long. Put it all together and it added up to dry, mostly sunny and a high in the mid 80's.

With weather like this, how could I not get out and do something serious? I saddled up for a match burning ride.

And to think I almost up and skipped working out today. I really did. Between my trainer ride on Friday and my strength session yesterday - actually it was more the sore muscles from the strength session than anything else - I almost bagged it.

Tuesday already? Time to get back to work.

Saturday was the 2x20 session with Bobber. Sunday Unit was in, so I took him out to Greensfelder so he could add to his tick collection. After the mongo burrito experience I then spent Sunday afternoon slaving away at the never-ending landscaping project behind my house. By Sunday night I was well beyond cooked.

I considered getting on one of my bikes yesterday for about 3 seconds. That is, the consideration lasted for three seconds. Had I decided to ride I doubt I could have accomplshed anything near that duration.