Friday, 6 July 2007

Empty legs and no riding

Bit of a supprise in sundays session as I thought my attempt at setting a new 60sec power record went really badly when my legs fel appart about 40 seconds in. Looking at the power profile over the 60 seconds it was a start with too much output that caused my legs to empty in no time at all and I could feel them loosing power by the second. At around the 50 second mark I almost gave it up as a bad job because I did the test after an hour and a half at 270W (294W norm) that had 1 hour at 300W (315W norm). Seeing how low the power had dropped I though it was a sub 600W average and not the 640W recorded. My HR finished at 179 (10bpm lower than my max) but my legs were well and truly shot.
Since then I have not touched my road bike and only done the short run to the station, now it's Friday and my CTL is back to what it was a month ago... Oh, well.
The weather this weekend is looking good and the Tour is in town, so it's either a ride down to watch it on Saturday or take the camera on foot. The ride down seems more appealing in some way, afterall I can always sit on my bike to watch it..

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