Of Mice and Marathons

AM/Lunch: 90' on the trainer (Zwift). 143W. HR 131.

Supposed to do closer to 3 hours, but didn't get downstairs early enough. Massively anxious after, but I got a sandwhich and started hydrating pretty hard and started to feel a lot better.

AM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 186W. HR 131.

Felt a little worse with the cold today and Megan's has been rough. Boys still seem fine. Thought my HR might be higher today, but it was in good shape. 

PM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 195W. HR 136.

Two solid rides. Felt very comfortable. Set up some custom workouts on Zwift so when I dump TrainerRoad I will have some preprogrammed stuff. Make training fun again to be piecing things together. 

Felt much better mentally throughout the day and had a good nap at lunchtime on the couch while the boys napped and Megan was in a meeting. Think I might have been run down and overtired from being sick. 

AM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 186W. HR 129.

PM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 220W. HR 150.

Good interval session. 4 x 8' @ 90% w/ 4' recoveries. Wrote my workout, which is really not hard to do when you have a running background and a decent basic understanding of cycling .

AM: 45' on the treadmill. HR 121.

Very slow recovery jog. Treadmill cut out. Got a message from my buddy Tom about hooking up the 20AMP dedicated breaker for tomorrow.

AM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 194W. HR 132.

PM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 206. HR 143.

Got a decent little nap in. I have been taking naps most days just after the boys go down for theirs. Yesterday I slept for a bit over an hour and it felt like I was paralyzed (in a good way). Todqy was around 20-30', which if well timed is amazingly perfect. I'm a big napper but haven't got into a rhythm lately even with working from home.

My buddy Tom came to look at the electrical. He asked if the treadmill was popping breakers, which I felt dumb about because of course if the treadmill was overloading the circuit that is what it would do. Not the case. Something is causing the treadmill to draw more power than it needs (or it needs more power than it can handle and it shuts down). Not sure this will slove the issue, but I am going to have it done anyway. Put a service request in to NordicTrack just because. Trying to be more assertive as the machine has never been right even after four service calls. 

Break start for me today more or less. Won't change things a ton, but still feels exiciting somehow and that is good.

AM: 90' on the trainer (Zwift). 203W. HR 137.

PM: 60' on the trainer (Zwift). 206. HR 138.

Megan and I both have lingering cold, so the boys didn't go to their friends. Mine has been mild, Megan's has been rough. The boys seem unaffected. 

Winter break started.

AM/Lunch: ~3 hours on the trainer w/ Zwift Race

Zwift Race: 64' @ 275W. HR 171.

Decided to do a race rather than 3 hours of endurance riding. The pace yo-yoed for the first 15' and then I got dropped hard and basically turned it into a time trial. I had to really concentrate and gut it out. No one really cares if you quit a virtual race in your basement, but I figured I needed to solid effort. I chased down one rider for most of the first lap and held them off in the second. 

30' warm up and 90' cool down.