The misery of the winter has begun - the pain of an indoor time trial, after work no less. So I had a 20 minute field test/time trial to get threshold wattage. You need that number in order to get your training zones. I planned on doing this outside, but it rained in the morning, so I got on the trainer after work. Nothing to say but this sucked, although not as bad in the past. Even after a good warm up the first 5 or so minutes just makes you want to quit, it's just uncomfortable, needless suffering. After the first 5, it's still hard, but you've accepted that you got through the first few minutes and there's only 15 more minutes to go. At this point, you just set little milestones for yourself, 7 minutes, 10 minutes, 12 minutes... I'm almost there. By now, you start to get a little confidence and actually start thinking, "damn, I probably started off too easy, maybe I can step it up. " At minute 15, I knew I had more in me and really started to work to keep my wattage on the high side. I was still at least 10 beats below my max heart rate, so I know I may have started off too easy and that I still had more in the tank. By the last minute, I work really hard to finish strong. Before you know it, it's over and while you warm down, you're thinking, "that wasn't SO bad. I know I can beat that performance." There's always next month.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The misery of the winter has begun - the pain of an indoor time trial, after work no less. So I had a 20 minute field test/time trial to get threshold wattage. You need that number in order to get your training zones. I planned on doing this outside, but it rained in the morning, so I got on the trainer after work. Nothing to say but this sucked, although not as bad in the past. Even after a good warm up the first 5 or so minutes just makes you want to quit, it's just uncomfortable, needless suffering. After the first 5, it's still hard, but you've accepted that you got through the first few minutes and there's only 15 more minutes to go. At this point, you just set little milestones for yourself, 7 minutes, 10 minutes, 12 minutes... I'm almost there. By now, you start to get a little confidence and actually start thinking, "damn, I probably started off too easy, maybe I can step it up. " At minute 15, I knew I had more in me and really started to work to keep my wattage on the high side. I was still at least 10 beats below my max heart rate, so I know I may have started off too easy and that I still had more in the tank. By the last minute, I work really hard to finish strong. Before you know it, it's over and while you warm down, you're thinking, "that wasn't SO bad. I know I can beat that performance." There's always next month.
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Yeah, I felt the same way. I did my TT in the park and because I didn't feel like throwing up afterwards was convinced that I hadn't worked hard enough, even though my legs were screaming. My legs felt it the whole day. It's so hard to gauge sometimes. I guess that's why people have power meters.
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