If at first you don’t succeed…

Spoiler alert… this was attempt #2 at training today.

The planned session was 3.5 hours with 3 x 13 x 30/15s and my original plan was to do it on the turbo (because 30/15s are so difficult to control outside). I knew before I got on the bike that it would be a push today. I did 5 hours yesterday and probably didn’t refuel as well as I should have done, confirmed by the fact that I woke up starving.

I just about made it through set 1 but after 1 effort in set 2 I had NOTHING. Deciding it would do more harm than good, I spun my legs a little bit and then climbed off. Grumpy 😆.

Queue carbs! I made a decent pancake stack, used the foam roller on my quads and waited several hours before then deciding to go out on the road for take 2.

It still wasn’t pretty. The numbers weren’t my best. BUT I got something done. And today that was a big win. I limped though the efforts on the bottom end of the power range and then did enough extra easy riding to make my total ride time for the day up to the target 3.5 hours. And I made sure to fuel really well during the ride, as well as when I got home, to make sure I’m recovered from a solid 2 days.

No comments yet.

Sign in to comment.

0 comments