Sunday Mar 4 |
 | cycling race 29:12 [5] | |
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| Cuppers 10 mile time trial. Was absolutely shitty weather, raining and windy. The course was out and back and the wind was 23 mph with 33 mph gusts - yep, directly parallel to the course!
Got to the turnaround (slightly less than halfway) in about 18 minutes or so after battling like crazy just to go at 24 kph. Was just about hitting 50 kph on the way back, though (what the pros do without a tailwind!).
Died a bit at the end and was probably pushing too big a gear, but didn't want to "pike out" and change down. In the end I was happy with my time, given the wind, but dissappointed to be so far down on Rachel, who did 26.48 (must have been her aero helmet, right ;-) |
| cycling 2:16:00 [3] | |
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| Riding too the event (into a headwind - all the guys were sitting behind me and when I asked them to go in front they sprinted off and after 10 secs I'd lost them, so not particularly energy conserving), warming up/down and riding home again (which was easy!). |
Saturday Mar 3 |
| strength 38:00 [3] | |
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| Didn't want to stress the legs too much before Cuppers tomorrow, so skipped a whole heap of exercises. Wasn't feeling particularly great anyway, as it was far too nice a day outside to be stuck in the gym! |
Friday Mar 2 |
| cycling 1:55:00 [3] | |
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| Had a rest day planned but it was beautiful weather, so I went out to Stadhampton to ride the course that I meant to do on Wednesday. The nice weather was kind of annulled by the fact that it's about the most heavily trafficed 2 hour route possible from Oxford without riding on motorways. Mmmm, carbon monoxide .... |
Thursday Mar 1 |
| strength 1:03:00 [3] | |
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| Didn't feel all that great. Either my pain threshold was lower than usual or my muscles were tired or both, because I did less reps of just about everything than I normally would. |
Wednesday Feb 28 |
| Turbo Trainer 1:00:00 [4] | |
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| Today was the day I set aside for riding the course of this weekend's time trial. Of course that meant 25 mph winds with 35 mph gusts, and heavy rain. So safety Amber decided to stay at home rather than risk being blown in front of a truck, or maybe even into a fencepost :-(
Did a turbo session: 1,2,3,4,5,4,2.5,2,1 minute reps with 1 minutes rest in between. Was meant to be symetric, but I was daydreaming about hiring a bike in Freiburg next weekend, so missed the clock.
Didn't feel like I got my heart rate all that high, but my legs hurt. I managed to keep a steady pace the whole way through, but next time might do the shorter ones on a higher resistance setting. Happy that I finished at all, though, after my effort 2 weeks ago. I can tell the last 3 weeks have definitely been good for my cycling. |
Tuesday Feb 27 |
| strength 1:02:00 [3] | |
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| Felt pretty good. |
Monday Feb 26 |
| cycling 1:00:00 [4] | |
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| Cumnor loop with efforts. There was a bit of wind about, which made me tired, so the last of 5 efforts was not particularly strong. |