Legs were still suffering from the Saturday, but a turbo beckoned. I was up early really early for this, as Erin was having a day of things to do. It was after all her birthday on the Monday but we thought it would be best to do things on the Sunday.
Had my normal breakfast...which is porridge. Then got the bike and myself ready for the trip ahead. This time I got my MP3 player at the ready, too many turbo's looking at a wall was driving me up the wall. I had what I thought was a 2hr 25 min turbo to do.
My cadence was to be around 100rpm
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Over-Gearing 2 hours
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I was to find a hilly as possible route choose a gear for the hills that allows you to have a lower cadence than normal (60-80rpm). So every so often be it 10mins or 15mins or 20mins I would lower the cadence to 60-80rpm for about 5mins. Within the time given I did about 6 of them. Legs were screaming at me. I pushed on and eventually came to the end where I was one big sweaty puddle (I perhaps should get a fan). Stretched off (never had time to do the 5 min run afterwards) and showered. Inbetween getting myself a protein shake. Compression on and then ERIN time :D
Really need to work more on my nutrition during these long training sessions. Today all I had was water and 1 750ml of nuun. Should I have more or something different. Maybe I should of taken a gel before hand? Might try some other things.
The blog started with the training for IMUK 2014, but since then I have progressed and done other events. If only Emma could see what I have accomplished.
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