When your peaking, its time to enjoy riding....
Its July 19th and for the last week I've been feeling awesome when I ride. Awesome means hills are molehills, power and recovery is always available and you feel that you have tons of energy.
It wasn't more than a month ago that I was complaining about just the opposite effects - no energy, burning legs walking up stairs and not motivated. In June I wrote in my diary "feeling crappy - need to rest" and the last June entry "I'm getting slower FML!" on a training loop that use to measure my performance. I was thinking what the helI do i need to do to get faster???? It was like i was slamming the course but when i reviewed the data , i was slower. Urggggg! The solution was that i rested fofor about two weeks by reducing my mileage and effort, putting on easy miles. Then on July 1, I slammed 190km; the next weekend, 120km and now the granfondo at 115km. I rode the the course where I was slower in June, to a new personal best and I thought that I wasn't working hard enough or at all. North road hill was literally a mole hill and I could feel the bike surge forward with every pedal stroke. I have an all effort training loop to do this week to measure my peak for the year.
Experience has shown me that this level is not sustainable for long, but I can build a second peak about 2 months later. A week or so from now, I'll be complaining once more then I'll rest again and start slamming miles in before my other goal on October - Levi's King Ranch Granfondo!
Picture of a road less traveled near Kelowna, BC (insert your most favorite country tune here)
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It wasn't more than a month ago that I was complaining about just the opposite effects - no energy, burning legs walking up stairs and not motivated. In June I wrote in my diary "feeling crappy - need to rest" and the last June entry "I'm getting slower FML!" on a training loop that use to measure my performance. I was thinking what the helI do i need to do to get faster???? It was like i was slamming the course but when i reviewed the data , i was slower. Urggggg! The solution was that i rested fofor about two weeks by reducing my mileage and effort, putting on easy miles. Then on July 1, I slammed 190km; the next weekend, 120km and now the granfondo at 115km. I rode the the course where I was slower in June, to a new personal best and I thought that I wasn't working hard enough or at all. North road hill was literally a mole hill and I could feel the bike surge forward with every pedal stroke. I have an all effort training loop to do this week to measure my peak for the year.
Experience has shown me that this level is not sustainable for long, but I can build a second peak about 2 months later. A week or so from now, I'll be complaining once more then I'll rest again and start slamming miles in before my other goal on October - Levi's King Ranch Granfondo!
Picture of a road less traveled near Kelowna, BC (insert your most favorite country tune here)
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Location:Chatham St,West Vancouver,Canada
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