Saturday, 1 September 2007

Back in training and it feels good

Back in training, but did not feel up to it to start off with as I was still feeling tired and unsettled. Once I was on the bike the feeling did not go until about 10 minutes in when it started to settle down and felt good, which was helped by an indication that I had not lost too much over the previous 2 weeks.
After a mixed session on the trainer I ventured out onto the road for a quick 15min blast up the road and averaged 385W, but my HR was way high, touching 184 at times before backing off a little.

I have to refine my bike position as I think that this is the key element to my next season as this is where I have not really focused as much as I should have. Reading through Obree and Hutchinsons books they both recognised that aerodynamics are the end game, which has a far higher impact that outright watts.

My goals for the rest of this year are to ride one more crit in around 4 weeks before entering winter mode and preparing for next year, which I'm going to hit full on this time, with avengance. I know now that if I carry some of what I have this year into next and train properly in the preceeding months I should be able to win the first crit.

Even with the recent weight loss I still have a bit of a gut hanging over my shorts, but it's only my spare....

Nobody has replied so far to my 2 queries in relation to the results from Milton Keynes.

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