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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Finally, a ride worth posting about. Just the day after I spend a post to whine about my poor cycling form I go out and lay down a great ride. I managed to do 42 miles at a pace of 22.6 mph solo. Even better, I managed to do it with an average heart rate of 160 bpm which is well below my lactate threshold. I'll probably ride like crap today (my legs hurt pretty badly after the ride yesterday and this morning) but that's because I did some hill sprints and big gear intervals as part of the ride for power training. Maybe I'll take it easy today and then if I can go do some hill intervals tomorrow. I have to spend most of the morning and early afternoon in a meeting about our new elementary education program here at the College so I expect that I'll probably be frustrated enough to need to blow of some steam doing climbing repeats on Hog Mountain. The question will be whether I do the four mile loop the easy way with a short power climb and then a 1 mile rhythm climb, the hard way with the 1.5 mile rhythm climb that has a real kick at the end or a longer six mile loop with a stairstep climb that's about 2 miles long that has a hard bit at the beginning and then a really, really steep 20+% quarter mile long hard bit at the end. Maybe I'll mix it up depending on how I feel.

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