3.0hr. trainer ride (zone 2)
I finally broached Spinervals 13.0 - Tough Love! That is a very good workout--the ones that are designed as free-standing and continuous workouts are preferable to the ones spliced together out of bits and pieces.
Of course I am not doing as good a job as the cyclists in the DVD--I am often in a slightly easier gear & riding at a lower cadence than recommended. (I adjusted the resistance to make it a bit easier after forty-five minutes, but I still could not quite keep up!) And I cheated in one significant way, which was that in a long middle set of 5 x 6 minutes where you do one minute standing alternating with one minute sitting, I skipped all the high-cadence easy-gear standing work--it is both a technical and a fitness-related challenge to stand and spin in an easy gear, I cannot face it yet!
All told, though, I feel I did an eminently respectable job. I am going to do this workout again next Sunday, I really liked it...
(Real cyclists will be ritually groaning at the evidence of my extreme procrastination re: riding outside!)
Avg HR 133, max HR 156
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You rode the bike for three hours?? In your apartment? It wasn't--I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I have to ask--boring?
Well, I had Coach Troy's words of Spinervalesque wisdom to ponder! But no, not really--or perhaps I just always have an active interior life that makes up for slight understimulation on the exterior? It is true that I was thinking fairly eagerly of what I was going to sit down and write on my blog--though in the event I could not be bothered to write it all down--like that though under other circumstances my mouth might be watering at Coach Troy's (semi-comical) suggestion that after this workout one has 'earned' a big bowl of ice-cream or a piece of chocolate cake, in fact the regular consumption during the workout of sticky-sweet gels and Clif products makes sweets seem very off-putting! I have just had some very salty and delicious pasta with meat sauce...
I was talking in the locker room the other day with a triathlete/swimmer who said she could not ride indoors at all, because the only thing she likes about cycling is the insane adrenaline rush as you shoot through a red light or whatever. I was looking at her with utter horror!
Congratulations!
Tough Love is my all time favorite Spinervals DVD.
I tend to skip the chocolate cake too.
I'm impressed with your 3 hours on the trainer! Most of my rides have been 2 hours or less, and I really need to get some longer times in. I get sick of all the sugary stuff I eat on long rides too -- sports drink, gel, various kinds of bars. It gets gross.
Good spin!
Yes, Al, this one seems like it's going to be my favorite too--even more than "Mental Toughness"!
Dorothy: Why can they not make SALTY foods for calorie replacement?!?
Brent: Yes! Hmmm, Coach Troy repeatedly mentioned the possibility that a three-hour indoor ride is worth four on the road, I am pondering the relevant components of Gale Bernhardt's training plan and hoping this really is the case...
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