Training Log Archive: Traut

First ride of the year outside. I planned to take it very easy and just do a relaxed pedal with a focus on form with loose firing calves/ foot-strike and weight-shift. Tried to spend plenty of time out of the saddle and relaxed. For the most-part that was accomplished. Tried to relax and focus on form on hills. Of course worked somewhat harder there, but I think it was a relaxed day. My quads threatened to tighten up, but I found my form enough or returned to it after feeling my quads that life remained good. I got into a fairly strong rhythm over the backbone of Babcock. That was the closest thing to pushing.

One of the harder things for me to remember in cycling is always to let the ride come to me so I can be on top of my ride (on top of my gear- getting my hips and weight shift up and drive from my glutes and foot-strike with loose calves). I need to ride relaxed and easy and let the hard push times come to me when my body is ready instead of trying to get into a pace I deem acceptable early in the ride. Some rides (especially at the shore) have so many stop signs and traffic early on that I have to be relaxed... that is why those rides always seem to go well... I have to do it myself here. Just like I need to work in the easy days on my own and not let my mind decide that I might feel good enough to go hard and I can't waste that with the few good days my arthritis gives me...

I must have slowed as I went though because my forth 5 miles was my slowest and my climb up Kumer was like 45-seconds slower then my PR while my climb up the hill on 910 was the same as my PR (but only climbed once before). I didn't feel myself slowing that much. If that is what relaxed was, then that is what relaxed was...

Knee felt good and no recovery issues or tightness afterward.

It was also nice that bike worked well. Shifters are still bad, but worked as well as they did in the fall. This was first ride since my crash on Columbus Day weekend.

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/285509873

Garmin: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7466851...

This was the first ride after my watch got updated and has a bike mode. The heart-rate is completely wackadoodle... My heart-rate was extremely low. Not sure if this is a one-time weirdness or what...

full stretching and rolling with straight-leg lifts.