Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Dammit, just when I thought a week was going to go to plan, suddenly feeling a bit poorly. I'm sure once upon a time when I had a cold it only ever hit once at a time, they always seem to come back for a second go these days. Today's run put on hold. :-(

Really only had time for half an hour, and didn't see the point in just pedalling along for that short time, so decided to have a bit of a play with the resistence dial. Which it turns out is definitely not purely decorative. 5 mins warming up at the usual setting, 5 mins up a notch, which was noticeably harder but was able to keep around the 25km/h that I'd been warming up, then up one more to the maximum where things got WAY harder. Had planned on 10 minutes, spent most of the first 5 thinking I would have to bail but pushed on through and even started to speed up during the second 5 (from around 20 up to 22km/h). After the 10 minutes of hell, slipped back a level for 5 mins, before going back to the usual setting for what was supposed to be a 5 min warm-down, but actually I enjoyed far too much how effortlessly my speed was suddenly up in the 30's so that I only slowed right down in the last minute or so.

C • Solo Spin class 1

I thought this was going to be a tough one, had been thinking of striking out for the lake to get a bit of hill (as much as there is in Tron-central) but after last night's effort was feeling a bit too flat for that. The pun wasn't intentional but I'm keeping it. So went for the Fairfield-Claudelands Bridge loop, and once I got going, seemed to go ok. Coming down River Road into a headwind probably made up for the near lack of climbing, and managed to run through about 4 or 5 "I'm going to take a walking break" moments. Expected I'd go well over 35 mins for this loop today so apparently I'm doing OK. Or have low expectations.

physio apptmnt

Thought I would just be doing a gentle 30-40 minutes, but once I'd spent the first 10 easing into things, just didn't want to stop. (At least when I was ignoring that the butt was feeling a bit sore)