Monday, the big day out I had been planning since I had bought the Trek in August. The day arrived and I decided not to drive four and a half mile hours from home base but a modest three hours. Even though I found a good ride I modified it to fit my own need and desires...it worked out great. Here is the ride as mapped:
I cut it so upon leaving hwy 64 downtown Avon I road the mapped course to the midway point between Lake Moody and Crooked Lake. I was rewarded with some great scenery and leg crushing rollers. I don't have this ability to ride the hills daily because of the dull flatness of my home town but WOW, what a perfect training ground I found.
Not only was the focus to just drain my legs of any juice so they would lay limp and lifeless on the bed at the end of the day but also to to keep my hr @ 140 to 160 max. Not ever having a cyclometer, a cateye v3, until now I was quite happy to watch the monitor and my bodies response at the same time. Training my body to respond to the power band of 140 to 160 hr is going to be a superb challenge. Not being a pro or even a good club rider, yet, my desires too learn to get most of my power from this range is text book academia but one much needed to learn. One thing I learned was on a huge up hill as I danced on the pedals I saw my hr climb rapidly from 161 strait to 177 and I lost my power and my strength in moments flat leaving me almost crawling the last 100 yards of the hill. After I summited and spun for a few yrds my hr returned to about 165 and it was like the power was turned back on, incredible lesson to learn.
This was a great ride and I learned a ton. My bottom line is to do my homework, get the hr power band down to a science and find some freaking rollers close to mi casa so I don't have to drive hours home in a blown-out state. IT WAS BRILLIANT. Any advice on any or all just add below.
If I pass you on the road stop at Peets, because your buying.
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