Monday, November 02, 2009

If September was a waste of time then what was October?

Well.

With family and stuff I also didn't touch a bike in October. This is not going well for the great return to racing. Still I've got 5 months until there is any racing, and 7 months till my first target event for the 2010 season.

More importantly by the end of the first day of November I'd actually got in a ride, just 20 mins on the turbo but a ride all the same. It felt good to be on the bike again, but the legs were tight.

Am going to keep it really easy this week, with all sessions at level 1 (max heart of 140 bmp) , and start the hundredpushups.com plan to help with upper body and core strength, which I lacked when racing before. Then for the remaining 3 weeks of the month I'll do a mix of Level 1 and Level 2 (heart of 155 to 165 bmp)

So last night was 20mins level 1 and tonight I hope to be 30mins Level 1.

Oh, and I have a new motivation plan, I'm going to try to do more miles/hours in each month of the year than the average for that month over the last 4 years. So need to do 330 miles in18h45m.

The standing so far:
  • Days ridden 1 out of possible 1
  • Miles ridden 5.9 out month target of 330 for month, 82.5 for the week
  • Time ridden 20mins out of month target of 15h45m for month, 4h41m for the week.
It's a start, just hope it continues.

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