Training Log Archive: veinbuster

The plan was a loop around Lake Jacksonville. I had a cheat sheet with road name but no map. I'll download the Garmin after resting my legs. It died near the end so the numbers above are the last I saw.

The first 5km on the lake road was very wooded, very narrow, twisty and hilly. Here the hills were mostly up and down the same 20m. There was quite a bit of tree parts on the road and the few pickups, all white, seemed to just drive over them waiting for them to break down. The biggest I had to ride over was about 10cm thick. Near the end I saw someone putting up new road markers - all you get here is one same green plate with a number on it. I hoped he had already done the other side of the lake because I had never been there so would be dependent on seeing the marker riding by.

Then 5km on a state road around the bottom of the lake. 2.5 km through town to the state road up the other side. This side of the lake had much bigger hills - up and down about 60m. There was quite a bit of traffic and some of the trucks swooped down the hills like rocket ships. This wasn't ideal for a single speed. To the point where when the longest hill kicked up to 12% and my heart rate up to 172, I opted to walk until it tapered. Cell service was dodgy and I new Mrs. Rarely had reception on the lake so best not to push it to the point of needing help.

I was looking for CO3110 to get back to the lakeshore. The problem was the 31xx counted up to 3107 and then the numbering changed to 18xx. I was getting suspicious and came to an unmarked road just before some old high voltage power lines. Maybe the dam at the top of the lake was big enough to generate power - some the the drops were decent. So I carried on to see if my road was on the other side of the power lines. Great big down hill so rather than U turn quickly I played it out on the flat and came to the end of the road.

I was about two hours, so I left Mrs. a message she could eventually be notified of and looped back. Mrs. messaged me about 1/4 of the way up the hill, so dead stop to reply. Another message half way up the first steep part, so another stop. Then I walked until it levelled a bit (back to about 5%). Pedalled until half way up the next steep part which was on a big curve so I opted to walk in the mushy pine needles on the side of the road and not worry about not bein seen by a truck.

Then back on the bike to the unmarked road. I thought I could burn 1km in case it was the one I wanted and save 20km back through town. After about 500m the road became deep sand, I gave it another 500m then bailed on that and headed back towards town. In this direction there was an early warning for CO3108. Not the 3110 I was looking for...but about 15m in there was a CO3110 sign, so back on track. Down to the lake to finish the loop. Garmin died just before the dam and I could see my destination around the top of the lake.

This was a very long time on a traditional bike, but after my routine leg elevation they feel fine.

C • Wow! 2

Finishing the ride. Time is accurate. Distance is 3-4 km, maybe another 50m of elevation.

Ignoring the time change for a day.

Day 2 plus wrists superset missed yesterday.
Free weights in what appears to be a brand new hotel gym, including an increasingly rare recumbent stationary bike. I found it a bit funny that even though most hotels don't have bikes any more, as I was doing my last set a guy walked in and hopped on it. I guess he is ignoring the time change today too.

Day 1 free weights and hotel Hoist H400.
Quite well equipped for a roadside hotel. They didn't have the right weights to do my wrist exercises so I replaced them with things I could do on the hoist that I can't normally do. The hoist has had a bit of abuse, mostly from attachments being forced into a place they don't belong.
I didn't figure out what was odd about the place until my last set: no TV blaring. Made for a very zen workout that managed to pack about 30% more work into the time.

It was still far too early for Mrs. so I gave the hotel elliptical another chance. The plan was to try and hold down to a 4mph pace. Worked fine for the first 10 minutes during which the machine read a heart rate 20-40 bpm higher than my monitor which slowly ramped up from 100. The pace did drift with each mental diversion and settle on the high side of the target after deliberately starting on the low side.
Machine and monitor heart rates merged at about 145 and then steadily crept up to the low 150s, typically up with each serge in pace and then not coming all the way down to the previous level. At 25 minutes I rewarded myself for my patience by upping the pace to 6mph, which pushed my heart up to 168 in about 90 seconds. I backed off because this is my alarm level and the heart rate settled back down over about 2 minutes. Heart recovery seems much slower on foot than on the bike - not unexpected.

A few quick laps between emergencies. All those things people could have dealt with days before I started vacation instead of hours.
But, off to warmer weather, including Austin.

Packing for vacation. 29er single speed on the roof.

Day 3 resistance bands, push-ups, abs

Day 2 free weights, push-ups and 18l water jug