Is it supposed to be easy?

Now is the time for logging some big saddle time, in the neighbourhood of 100-120km. Unfortunately, everyone with the TTC was riding shorter than that, so my intention was to do about 85-90k with them, then add on a few extra kilometres.

The weather predictions had been for rain showing up in the afternoon, so we were supposed to be in the clear. The rain didn't get the invitation, so it showed up early. The black clouds were on the horizon within the first 30 minutes, and kept approaching while we were out there. I turned around at about 45km, hoping to outrun the rain. At the 75km mark, the rain stopped threatening, and started coming down. It wasn't too bad, but it was enough to convince me to call the ride when I got back to the car. I changed my plan to go home and finish the ride time on the trainer.

I added 40 minutes of easy trainer work to the 3:10 I logged already, so it was the better part of four hours on the day. Here I am a few hours later, and I don't feel like I did much of anything this morning. That week of recovery has put me in good stead, and my fitness must be starting to improve. What normally would leave me quite tired has barely had an effect. If this keeps up for the next couple of week, I'll be flying come race day.

Bike: 3:50, ~ 115km, zone 1-2