Training Log Archive: veinbuster

Dawn ride, though you couldn’t see the sun. I had planned to go south and loop the inlet, but heavy fog made that too risky so I went north. The headwind starting out was about 20km/hr so it was going to test how strong I really was on a traditional bike. I haven’t ridden one any significant distance since last May.

I tried to settle into a heart rate in the 140s thinking that would leave me enough energy to finish the ride. The outbound pace turned out a bit better than I expected. I did a couple of loops at the turn around to check out the wealthy neighbourhood. Riding was much easier a bit inland from the ocean wind.

Turning back south was like being on vacation. The tail wind made going easy though swirling winds along the stretch of high rises required that I stay alert. I also had to watch for a bunch of runners doing their recovery runs after yesterday’s marathon. A short pause before turning onto the highway to get back to our stretch of beach. It was early enough that traffic was light and orderly.

I went by the house knowing the last 11km would be half into the wind, so picked a loop that would let be finish with a tailwind - call it a cool down.

Great ride in 12-14C.

And...the Garmin auto load to Attackpoint worked!

C • Nice long ride! 2

Tour of Surfside with Mrs after I finished unloading the truck, bought groceries and prepped the 3 bikes. A bit overcast and 17C.

Oh...once again I forgot to switch the Garmin mode from indoor to ride so missed the first bit on a throw away.

A good 2 minutes into my 10 minute plank, I noticed that the timer wasn’t running. My core didn’t seem to mind the extra time.

I couldn’t fit the extender straps for the fattie wheels in -20C this morning so loaded up the 80s rigid mountain bike.

While I was loading up, I did notice that the day after both big snow storms giving perfect snow shoe conditions I missed it because I was going to the beach with Mrs.

Followed by 90 minutes of changing the beach bike plan - Greenspeed out, along with everything already packed around it; cross bike bagged and stowed; reorganize everything else around the new configuration so now there is room for a guitar and a bunch of craft materials.
Still deciding if the Bacchetta or the FatBoy will take a ride on the back. If it wasn’t snowing, I would probably take the stick bike off the trainer and mount it on the back rack. The fattie is fun in the sand though.

Sufferfest: do as you’re told

2 x 11 step VO2max pyramid. Time at power for 10 seconds to 60 seconds then back down. In the first cluster the recovery time matched the effort time. In the second cluster the efforts were 1 minute apart - so short recovery for the longer efforts. The last couple of hard bits were stretched to 30 seconds.

Half a dozen sprints thrown in for good measure.

A good, short workout. I’m happy to see good recovery at 150 watts.

Power: avg-181, max-374

Scheduled for 5-10cm and just shoveled close to 20cm with more falling. I didn’t want to have to clear the whole thing before an early start tomorrow.

Day 2 soloflex and free weights

It was a punishing day at Habitat. The site was closed, but Vince asked Saturday if I could come and finish up the second floor with him. We finished most of the big stuff then, but had some finishing to do.

The wind was punishing and leached all body heat out every chance it got. It tried hard to blow every piece of materials I carried away and take me with it - it did skid my feet out on an ice sheet once. Luckily my helmet kept my skull from thudding directly on the hard stuff. The hardest battle was keep rim board from blowing off the top of the wall before we could nail it down.

I feel less worn down after a 4 hour bike ride.

C • Wind 2