Saturday, 10 February 2007

More comfortable - easier ride without a hangover !

From yesterdays ride I had another thought, maybe the bottle of wine the night before had something more to do with the performance and feeling on the bike... 1+1=2.

Felt better at the end of the session and could have gone on a bit longer, although at the moment I want to take it easy and ramp up slowly and more on feel. Compared to yesterdays session at the end of it I did feel tired and a little drained, which again was probably linked to the wine.

I did manage to get around 11 hours sleep in, which did seem to help a huge amount and feel that had more to do with todays session. Unfortunately I can't do that every day or I'd be divorced and out of work, ah well, theres more to life than my bike !

The polar to iMagic kCal count was less this session, which is interesting as I'm wondering if it also has something to do with the difference in wattage dissipated in the tyre energy transfer to the roller at a lower speed. I do think that a part of it is my legs, probably the majority of it, and will have to do more hill training when I can get out properly.

Session duration : 85min
Average power : 233W
Average HR : 140bpm
Reference power : 142bpm=243W
Cadence avg : 92rpm
kCal : 1137 (polar 1240)

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