Two years of road cycling as of today. July 10, 2005 marked my first ride on the Specialized Roubaix Elite that I currently call my "ride." Before then, I road a Giant hardtail MTB everywhere I wanted to ride a bike. I put some good miles in on the Giant MTB between 2000 and 2005 when I retired it, but nothing approaching what the Roubaix has done for me.
I had a fantastic ride today to "top off" two years of training. After feeling pretty sick with sniffles, sore throat and some sinus pressure, I fully expected today's ride to be pretty abysmal. 3 hours of riding with 1 1/2 hrs of high tempo work was not looking pleasant. I got the bike out and mentally prepared for my legs to be drained. I hopped on the bike and committed myself to the first 15 minutes of the hard stuff to see what the legs would do.
After 20 minutes of tempo work my legs still felt good. No... my legs felt Grrrrrreat! I kept the hard stuff going and more often than not found myself looking down at the power meter seeing values in the 330+ range and had to pull back on the pace. When I got up on the twisty roads in the rain I had to come off the pedals quite a bit on the turns but was right back on them in threshold zone. My total workout stats for the MIET time looks like this:
MIET session:
Duration: 1:28:44 (1:29:40)
Work: 1605 kJ
TSS: 125.6 (intensity factor 0.927)
Norm Power: 320
VI: 1.05
Distance: 50.732 km
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 552 305 watts
Speed: 0 70.5 34.3 kph
For fun, I pulled up the program Cyclistats. I use it to track interesting things mostly since I have lots of previous information in it. But it also has some default graphs that I can use without having to import all that information into my Excel spreadsheets. Here are some personal stats about me for a "then" and "now":
Then (7/10/05) Now (7/10/07)
Weight 195 168
Body Fat 16% 6%
Resting Heart Rate 47 36
And... here are the fun charts. Can you guess when I really started training?
Cumulative Distance:
Distance Per Month:
(2005: 469.95 km/month 2006: 1257.07 2007: 2039.01)
Time Per Month:
(2005: 16 hrs 2006: 43.3 hrs 2007: 67.25 hrs)
Avg Speed:
(2005: 29.253 km/h 2006: 29.392 km/h 2007: 30.318 km/h)
I had a fantastic ride today to "top off" two years of training. After feeling pretty sick with sniffles, sore throat and some sinus pressure, I fully expected today's ride to be pretty abysmal. 3 hours of riding with 1 1/2 hrs of high tempo work was not looking pleasant. I got the bike out and mentally prepared for my legs to be drained. I hopped on the bike and committed myself to the first 15 minutes of the hard stuff to see what the legs would do.
After 20 minutes of tempo work my legs still felt good. No... my legs felt Grrrrrreat! I kept the hard stuff going and more often than not found myself looking down at the power meter seeing values in the 330+ range and had to pull back on the pace. When I got up on the twisty roads in the rain I had to come off the pedals quite a bit on the turns but was right back on them in threshold zone. My total workout stats for the MIET time looks like this:
MIET session:
Duration: 1:28:44 (1:29:40)
Work: 1605 kJ
TSS: 125.6 (intensity factor 0.927)
Norm Power: 320
VI: 1.05
Distance: 50.732 km
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 552 305 watts
Speed: 0 70.5 34.3 kph
For fun, I pulled up the program Cyclistats. I use it to track interesting things mostly since I have lots of previous information in it. But it also has some default graphs that I can use without having to import all that information into my Excel spreadsheets. Here are some personal stats about me for a "then" and "now":
Then (7/10/05) Now (7/10/07)
Weight 195 168
Body Fat 16% 6%
Resting Heart Rate 47 36
And... here are the fun charts. Can you guess when I really started training?
Cumulative Distance:
Distance Per Month:
(2005: 469.95 km/month 2006: 1257.07 2007: 2039.01)
Time Per Month:
(2005: 16 hrs 2006: 43.3 hrs 2007: 67.25 hrs)
Avg Speed:
(2005: 29.253 km/h 2006: 29.392 km/h 2007: 30.318 km/h)
