Workouts: Bike

Friday 6/20: Biked to work, 9.8 miles
Sunday 6/22: Bike 26 miles

Friday's ride to work was short, but done at a quick pace...didn't remember to check numbers but it was tempo+ I would say. I left my bike at work because Les picked me up. So that meant that Sunday I had to go back for it and ride home.

Sunday's ride was longer, more hilly, and an all-around good workout. I took a circuitous route home through Bath township. I stopped roughly halfway to drop my backpack off; Les dropped Lily off at a birthday party and I met them there. I took another roundabout way home and made a nice ride of it.

I missed the club ride last week. Hoping to have a good solid workout week this week to get back to a more normal schedule.

Training Log: 22.1

Saturday 3/29: Bike, outside! about 60 minutes @ 19 mph. (hilly loop)

Hurray! I got back on the horse today. Outside on the bike, actually moving through space, for the first time since the Fall. And for the first workout of the week. This is my normal loop - about 18.6 miles (I forgot to reset my computer today, but I have ridden it a lot). The many small climbs make it function like an interval workout if I am trying to maintain a decent tempo. So we'll call this our interval workout for the week.

My cold lingered, migrated to my chest, and I was coughing and feeling under the weather most of the week. I decided to rest and get better rather than try to squeeze in runs punctuated with periodic expulsions of lung butter. I missed working out this week though, in part because it was also a fairly stressful work week. So getting on the bike felt really good. My toes were cold (it was about 45 degrees) but it was sunny.

I would have had a faster avg. speed but there was a big headwind for the first 7 and last mile. That was the coldest part too.