"There are no compromises." -Once a runner

AM: 50min spin

PM: 50min spin

 I figure that while I am injured, if I put in the same amount of time on the bike that I would have running had I been healthy at a similar HR (I don't run with a HRM but I have checked several times and it always falls 120-140) I will have lost the least amount feasable.  I hate the bike and yet I notice how much faster my legs recover after a spin than after a run.  Directly after a run my legs feel tired but okay and then for the next 5 hours/longer if im on high mileage.  Directly after a spin my legs feel horrible but then 1-2hrs after they feel fine again.  Funny.  I guess it is because of the impact difference.  One thing that never hurts me while running is my butt and that hurts at least the whole time I am biking if not after as well.

AM: 40 min spin

PM: 50 min spin

AM: 40 min spin

PM: 50 min spin I have started doing 5 min at a fairly easy resistance and then 5 min at a decent resistance and repeating to mix things up. It may sound too hard for base, but really the 'high' resistance I am doing only gets me up to 120-135 heart rate and the 'easy' resistance is usually 110-120. I am getting a lot of studying done despite it being hard to concentrate while exerting yourself. The thing is there are 0 distractions besides the discomfort.

AM: 40 min spin

PM: 50 min spin I am boring an predictable during base, which is how it should be.

AM: 40 min spin

PM: 50 min spin 

They keep it like 80 degrees in the gym despite it being really cold outside.  Annoying. 

AM: 40 min spin

PM: 50 min spin

Not too much longer of this.  I will be on the bike through tuesday morning.  Then I am flying to go skiing.  So the next 3 days skiing will be my exercise and then Saturday will either be off or running followed by running 50 miles that next week with perhaps some supplemental indoor swimming or outdoor rowing (if my dad either lets me use his shell alone or wants to come along).  Basically I don't want to go from 0 to 80 miles of pounding on my legs immediately.  The following weeks will be 65 and 80 miles.  Then it will already be time to go back to school, at which time I will add in speed workouts and maybe drop back to 65-75 miles per week.

AM: 50 min spin

PM: 50 min spin

Whoa I really mixed it up there.  Basically I wasn't done studying the lecture I was on so I went another 10 min at an easy pace.

 So that is 10 hours and 50 minutes of spinning this week.  So at 8 min miles (which I have been going at least 8 min miles running recently) that puts me at 81.25 miles worth of aerobic work for the week.  Not bad.  It is all about consistency.  I really want that sub 17 5k.  It should have been mine already.  It is difficult to get really excited about the mile because the 4:50 barrier (if anyone would call it that) is definitely going down.  If I had run a race in good conditions with competition last spring it would have happened.  But getting to another barrier beyond that is gonna be difficult.  Only time will tell.  I am doing the endurance work.  I need some speed.  Better than 62 sec 400 speed.  That is pathetic.