Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Flattening the hills

I guess I'm supposed to be pretending to go uphill. That's the point of the Spinervals DVD Hillacious. And that's all well and good, but I know I can climb. Instead, I stayed down in the drops, and was grinding my way through. This is one my favourite workouts, starting with two long intervals, then into a set of "rollers", and finishing with some steep climbs/big gear work. I also actually remembered part of my training plan for the year during this workout: on the first attempt with one of these workouts, it should be "go hard, but not killer hard", so that the next week I can push that much more. So far this summer I've pushed too much on the first pass, and been shattered the second week. That's no good, so the intensity was right tonight. I got off the bike knowing that I had worked, but I could still stand up. We'll call that a win.

Run: 2.5 miles, ez

Bike: Spinervals 24.0 - Hillacious, 70 minutes

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