Rolled a great week on the bike this week.
I started the week with 75 min @ 340 watts.
Next day: 4x4x4 VO2 workouts: 422, 419, 421, 408 watts.
Everything else this week has been tempo or endurance, with a 90 minute recovery spin on Wedneday.
Polished the week of with 15+ hrs on the bike.
Yesterday's ride was a hard 3½ hours in a brutal wind and I expected to be really sore out on the bike. But as soon as I got the legs spinning today, they opened up immediately. Took 4 hours with Pete, and for the first two hours or so we had a great tailwind and some pretty easy riding. We turned into the strong winds on the way home and I settled in and rolled. My legs are tired today, but they're the right kind of tired.
It's been a week of really earning the rest days, but the rest days are plenty to get back to the training with the right amount of "feel goodness"
I still need to drop 5-7 lbs, but that should start rolling off pretty easy now that I'm getting good consistent hours to compete with my appetite!
The weather should only get better from here, right?
Hrmm.. we'll see about that.
Ride safe,
VW
I started the week with 75 min @ 340 watts.
Next day: 4x4x4 VO2 workouts: 422, 419, 421, 408 watts.
Everything else this week has been tempo or endurance, with a 90 minute recovery spin on Wedneday.
Polished the week of with 15+ hrs on the bike.
Yesterday's ride was a hard 3½ hours in a brutal wind and I expected to be really sore out on the bike. But as soon as I got the legs spinning today, they opened up immediately. Took 4 hours with Pete, and for the first two hours or so we had a great tailwind and some pretty easy riding. We turned into the strong winds on the way home and I settled in and rolled. My legs are tired today, but they're the right kind of tired.
It's been a week of really earning the rest days, but the rest days are plenty to get back to the training with the right amount of "feel goodness"
I still need to drop 5-7 lbs, but that should start rolling off pretty easy now that I'm getting good consistent hours to compete with my appetite!
The weather should only get better from here, right?
Hrmm.. we'll see about that.
Ride safe,
VW