Of Mice and Marathons

AM/Lunch: 2.5 hours on the fat bike. HR 157.

Road to Bald Mountain South and it was in absolutely fantastic shape as one of the guys went through with his snowmobile. I did three laps there are actually set my third fastest time. 

Cut down the Polly Ann, which was in horrible shape. The plowed portions a few weeks ago and it was super fast. This was awful as were the safety paths to get to Orion Oaks. Apparently schools throughout the municipality don't do their sidewalks and paths. Went into Orion Oaks and it was such garbage. I kept falling and stalling and swearing. Headed back out to the dirt roads but the ones heavily travelled were glare ice and I wasn't feeling like a fall. 

PM: 3.6 miles in 42' on the treadmill. HR 131.

Bike still not working and the treadmill shutoff. The last few days have not been great other than a really good ride Sunday.

Put a call into Wahoo on the bike.

AM/Lunch: 60' on the trainer (Antelope -5). 215W. HR 150.

Messed around with the trainer and figured out the shifters were reprogrammed and that I could use it in erg mode and I just needed to be aware of the shifting pattern. By the time I finished the workout, it was back to normal. A good interval session.

PM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 150W. HR 125.

Mood much improved today. Been fighting the blues/minor depression for a few days. My dad was officially diagnosed with early stage dementia by his primary care physician as of Thursday and my mom told me Friday. I knew it was the case by the official diagnosis hit a little hard.

AM: 60' on the trainer. 76W. HR 88.

What cyclists call "active recovery" or "AR." For runners it's either recovery or rest. Legs were fine from yesterday. Just trying to absorb the work. Plus it is fun to watch Food Network and silently add "that's what she said" to pretty much everything Molly Yeh says.

Good day. Better than the previous ones. Nice day of students ghosting meetings, getting some grading done, and mostly playing with my kids. Oh, and a very efficient 20' nap when Megan was upstairs working and the boys were napping.

Starting to get a little cabin fever, but overall not bad. Just waiting for the new bike to come in so that I can get a few rides in before Barry Roubaix at the end of March. Roads won't be in shape for several weeks, but I can at least look at it while I am on the trainer.

AM: 2 hours on the trainer (Zwift). 176W. HR 138.

PM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 183W. HR 139.

An indulgent day of exercise, but that's the beauty of working from home and having a reduced course load. Getting further sucked into the Zwift universe. Today I figured out my fancy trainer can "steer"(using buttons on the inside of the hoods). Not exactly sure how it plays out in the virtual world other than working on line selection and moving around people (in racing I imagine it helps with drafting). I think what drove me nuts about it at first makes it that intriguing now.

A good day. Mentally feel the best I have in a long time. Mostly been pretty solid lately anyway, but it feel nice to feel really good. Training my head off seems to help.

Down 21 lbs from last year at this time. Another 10 to go. The additional 10 might never happen again, but things are starting to snowball a bit, which is nice. It has been SLOW.

AM: 90' on the trainer (Townsend -1). 168W. HR 128.

The boys went to their friend's for a while.

PM: 90' on the trainer (Zwift). 164W. HR 140