My training week is sort of messed up in that my riding is on a monday start of the week, and my weight lifting is on a wednesday start of the week. It works fine, its just that my riding week is done, yet I have 1 more day in the gym for "week 1" of the lifting program. I have blog posts on 4 days in a row now, this may be a record for me.
Anyways. Week 2. 5 days riding, 1 full off day, and 1 day in the gym testing my max's for the weight program. 2 other days in the gym (with the third day of my "week" coming on tuesday). According to the training journal - 8 hours and 6 minutes and 56 seconds on the bike, for a total of 131.58 miles, avg. hr of 148.
1 real ride, yesterdays. 1 day on a trainer, 3 on rollers. 196.7 miles in 12:45:37 w/ avg. hr 152 for the month thusfar.
Weather is looking somewhat warm (high 20's, low 30's) but lots of wind next week, hopefully will be able to get out on the road, and hopefully more new parts will come (fedex says friday). Re: argentius's q on the comments, how do you go downhill in the cold? You man up, thats how. Actually, hands on the bars right near the stem, legs clamped on the top tube, face tucked down when possible, and just suffer it out. Think of it as a refreshing blast of cold air after getting all warm on the climb up the hill. It isn't as bad as during the fall when I did 3 repeats up a 1000 verticle foot, 3-4 mile climb. It would be fine on the bottom, but then I would get to the top, stop, get some water, etc, and get cold. I was shivering soo much on the way down, I couldn't really control the bike. It got to the point after the last time up, I hitched a ride down in a car because I got soooo cold (I was wearing ss top and bottom, no extra layers, and it was maybe 45 degrees on top).
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