Of Mice and Marathons

PM: 60' on the trainer. 124W. HR 91. 

True recovery ride. Legs and body are decently beat up. Trying to figure out things that worked well yesterday and the many things that didn't.

PM: 60' on the trainer. 174W. HR 110. 

Legs are coming around. 

PM: 90' on the trainer. 216W. HR 136. 

4 x 8' Sweet Spot Burst

Decent quality session. Felt a bit harder than I wanted to for an easier workout, but I woke the system up. 

PM: 2 hours. 32.3 miles @ 16.2 MPH. 176W. HR 119. 

Kept the ride pretty strictly zone 2 for the middle portions. Felt very sluggish and had no power the first part of the ride, I think due to caloric restrictions. Roads were in great shape. 

Changed back over from TrainerRoad to FasCat for my training. TrainerRoad is great for some things, but for the yearly plan it really doesn't do well for the base season as it looks almost identical throughout the year. FasCat seems to take account of a off-season, base with weights, etc. I have enjoyed the program since the turn of the year, but the workouts just got repetitive, but like running cycling is about consistency and repetition. 

Need to get some running in. Plan is to turn the fall into a long and patient base period focusing on HR and effort-based running (which I mostly do anyway). I think this spring I just didn't have that foundation and workouts were good, but maybe I just pushed through and needed to be more patient. I don't know. Plan is to just enjoy the running and use it as a weight loss and mental health tool (which had been really solid lately, really). 

PM: 3 hours 10'. 56 miles @ 17.7 MPH. 208W. HR 151.

Thursday Night Dirt

I was between A and B group. My legs weren't producing much power but weren't terrible, so I thought maybe they just needed to wake up. They did start to wake up and I met the group a bit farther down Sheldon than I have been as I left earlier. Rode A group and felt decent at the start though it was hard and very surgey. A gap formed with me and another guy and I tried to close it but I think I was surging too much as the other guy asked me about it. He was on a hardtail, so I was just trying to pull us back to the group, which was dumb and just not working as I would just die. He pulled away with another guy and I just let them go. I was just going to go home, but decided to do what I usually do, which is to still get in a hard workout and time trialed it. I did fairly well. Pleased I kept the effort up. 

Loop Data (from one of the longer route segments): 27.3 miles in 1:24:25. 19.4 MPH @ 168 BPM. 251W.

PM: 60' on the trainer. 137W. HR 94.

AM: 3 hours 11'. 66 miles @ 20.7 MPH. 210W. HR 152.

Depot Ride 

This is a road ride that starts in Downtown Clarkston that I have wanted to do for a while. I met up with one of the guys from the neighborhood and rode over. Guys were friendly and welcoming. Everyone was on road bikes except for me and my neighbor. I got dropped twice, once before the coffee stop and once after, which was humbling, but fine. It was nice to get some faster miles in and be home by noon. 

This ride definitely made me want a road bike. Gotta save my pennies.