Breakthrough Workout

Wow, talk about a good day.

It's funny how the best days I tend to have start of pretty shitty. I got on my bike at around 11:30 this morning planning to do a 3 hour ride. About 3 minutes in I felt sluggish; pedalling on the 2nd largest cog in the back was hard and the wind blowing in my ears was getting on my nerves. I sucked it up and kept on pedalling.

I had been planning on simply riding for 3 hours, but after an hour I decided to try something different. Instead of complaining about how weak my legs felt on the bike, I decided to do some strength work. I was going to using the big chainring for the rest of the day, not shifting down for any reason.

Well, this worked great! My speed was up, but my heartrate didn't climb as much as I thought it would. My cadence was definitely slower, but my legs felt ok all day and my HR stayed around 140 the entire time (a couple of spikes when climbing some steep hills, but otherwise good). I'd guess my average speed was 28-30 KPH on the flats, which is a good speed.

At the start of this workout I was worried about how long it would take me to do 180k in an Ironman. Now I know that if I work on it over the next 5-6 months, I will be a lean mean biking machine when August 26 hits.

I can't wait!