I'm still in a prep phase.
I need to keep telling myself this. If I don't, I'll end up going way too hard, and it will probably catch up with me in the summer. And since I'd like to avoid that, I need the reminder.
Still, it's tough to keep things reined in all the time. Like tonight, for instance. According to the schedule, it was 60 minutes of zone 1-2. And for the most part, it was. But since I'm a bit of an idiot, there was a big block of upper zone 2, edging into zone 3. It's not like I was doing VO2 intervals, so this wasn't that far off the plan. It was nice to see that upper zone 2 is about 240w, and that I could hold that easily for 30 minutes. I guess I'm getting stronger again.
Bike: 65 min, zone 1-2, w/ 30 min @ 240w
Run: 2 miles @ 7.0 mph
In further notes, Trisport Canada added a Motionbased map of the bike course to their website. The nice thing about Motionbased is that I could save the map as a GPX file, which I could then convert to a PGMF file. So now, I have the Muskoka bike course as a route on the i-Magic. I'm going to try not to use it as my sole ride, but just every once in a while, mostly as a scouting report on the climbs and such. But this will help with the next few months.
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Wow. Your "upper zone 2" is my LT!
Remember the advice you gave me about sticking to the plan and not overtraining?
My "upper zone 2" is your LT on a differently-calibrated questionable accuracy machine. I don't put much stock in the numbers, just (hopefully) the consistency.
I know about the overtraining. If I felt any fatigue the next day I'd reconsider, but so far everything's in check.
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