Wednesday, July 4, 2007
5:45 AM
first ride with my road bike shoes!
Activity: Biking
Distance: 13 miles
Time: ~1:05:00
Average: ~5:00
Weather: 64/59
I woke up at 530am this morning to do this bike ride. Since I'm still wary about the clip-in pedals, I'd like to avoid biking at times when there are cars on the road. I guess that I didn't have to worry about that today tho. The town was dead as a door knob all morning. I forgot that most people probably have off from work. In retrospect, I'm so glad that my first ride with the pedals was today!
Anyway, here's what I was supposed to do:
Tempo Bike
Total time = 1 hour
1-20minutes = warm up. Light gearing, low cadence.
20-30 minutes = focus on keeping your cadence at 85rpms (check your speed here)
Main Segment: “Tempo” Set
3X 5 minutes at 40K TT pace (please let me know what mph you traveled at) with a 2 min. recover spin in between.
End of segment to – 1 hour extensive effort (I'm not sure what this means?? I think that it's a cool down?)
I don't have the cadence monitor for my bike yet, so I have no idea what my speed is. Honestly, I don't know if I was quite ready for a workout like this. I really have absolutely no idea what a 40K TT pace would be for me, but I did do little 'sprints' where I pedaled a bit faster for the tempo set.
The bike is still an enigma to me. My quads and hamstrings are usually a little bit tired after a bike workout, but I don't feel like I'm getting much of an aerobic workout, except maybe when I'm doing a long uphill. In addition, I'm still nervous on the bike, so I tense my shoulders. I'm a little jelloey and shaky when I get off, and I have to take 15 minutes or so to calm down after I am done.
That said, I'm having a lot of fun figuring the bike out. I really enjoy planning my bike routes because I can go so much farther out of town that I can on a run. The cars are mostly very nice and leave me plenty of room. Since I managed this ride without falling, I'm feeling encouraged!
This ride is hillier than any that I've done yet. When I go up hills, I have my bike in the lowest possible gear. I wonder if I'm ever going to shift the rear gear.
mood:
it's the 4th, but i'm not feeling so festive.
health:
i have no idea?? i'm going to go with high numbers on any day that i don't die.
Distance: 13 miles
Time: ~1:05:00
Average: ~5:00
Weather: 64/59
I woke up at 530am this morning to do this bike ride. Since I'm still wary about the clip-in pedals, I'd like to avoid biking at times when there are cars on the road. I guess that I didn't have to worry about that today tho. The town was dead as a door knob all morning. I forgot that most people probably have off from work. In retrospect, I'm so glad that my first ride with the pedals was today!
Anyway, here's what I was supposed to do:
Tempo Bike
Total time = 1 hour
1-20minutes = warm up. Light gearing, low cadence.
20-30 minutes = focus on keeping your cadence at 85rpms (check your speed here)
Main Segment: “Tempo” Set
3X 5 minutes at 40K TT pace (please let me know what mph you traveled at) with a 2 min. recover spin in between.
End of segment to – 1 hour extensive effort (I'm not sure what this means?? I think that it's a cool down?)
I don't have the cadence monitor for my bike yet, so I have no idea what my speed is. Honestly, I don't know if I was quite ready for a workout like this. I really have absolutely no idea what a 40K TT pace would be for me, but I did do little 'sprints' where I pedaled a bit faster for the tempo set.
The bike is still an enigma to me. My quads and hamstrings are usually a little bit tired after a bike workout, but I don't feel like I'm getting much of an aerobic workout, except maybe when I'm doing a long uphill. In addition, I'm still nervous on the bike, so I tense my shoulders. I'm a little jelloey and shaky when I get off, and I have to take 15 minutes or so to calm down after I am done.
That said, I'm having a lot of fun figuring the bike out. I really enjoy planning my bike routes because I can go so much farther out of town that I can on a run. The cars are mostly very nice and leave me plenty of room. Since I managed this ride without falling, I'm feeling encouraged!
This ride is hillier than any that I've done yet. When I go up hills, I have my bike in the lowest possible gear. I wonder if I'm ever going to shift the rear gear.
mood:
it's the 4th, but i'm not feeling so festive.health:
i have no idea?? i'm going to go with high numbers on any day that i don't die.# posted by Steph 
