With the duathlon (and my premiere as a multi-sport athlete) this weekend, I decided tonight would be a good time to work on my steady-state endurance on the bike with a sixty minute tempo effort. I know most people get bored with this type of workout, but it's right in my wheelhouse, so to speak. Once I find my comfortable cadence and breathing pattern, I can hold that sort of effort all day. Then, after the solid effort on the bike, I jumped onto the treadmill for a brief two miles, just to see how the legs feel after that sort of effort. Answer: felt pretty good. So I am feeling confident going into this weekend. Not that I'll win or anything like that, but I should make a respectable showing, and not self-destruct on the course.
Bike: Warm-up, one leg drills, 60 mins tempo @ 255-265w, cooldown
Run: 2 miles @ 6.5 mph
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I'm with you on the tempo workout thing. For whatever reason, I find it enormously rewarding to just tuck in and push myself hard for an hour. I find it induces an almost zen-like state.
Good luck at the NOTL du this weekend!
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