Well, after a terrible week from a training point of view I finally got on the bike on Saturday. I had the South African Springboks versus the New Zealand All Blacks Tri-Nations Rugby game to watch so I quickly got down to business. The idea was just to get in a groove and see if I could do and hour or so at a steady tempo - nothing too ambitious. So I sat in at about 200W and eventually managed 2 hours at 200W with a 10 minute cool down period...oh, I also added in a 450W 30 second effort at the end to simulate the steady state after a sprint. Since I cannot sprint on a trainer I thought I'd skip that.
I was very happy with this effort. It was pretty comfortable the whole way and, interestingly, the 6th biggest effort I've put in all year from a kJ perspective. It burned 1,499 kJ in 2 hours which was more than most of the group rides in Chicago (aside from Judson) burn in 3 hrs. Fascinating.
Riding a stationary bike gets you nowhere!:)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, since I have been doing weekend 80 mile suffer-fests, my power test numbers have dropped about 50 W! Less is more!