Just got back from my Mtn ride. I was undecided as to which Mtn ride to do, but ended up driving up to Georgetown and then riding and out ‘n back to the top of Loveland Pass. I toyed with the idea of starting in Idaho Springs but wasn’t sure I wanted to do quite that much as I’ll be trying to do another longer ride on Saturday and it was my first ride at true elevation. I went by myself and hardly saw any other bikes out there.<\/p>\n
Turns out it was a good decision — but not for those reasons. My (left) lower back\/ glute and calf all decided to be ‘problem children’ today. I started off as gently as I could, which is a bit tough because you do start climbing right from the start on this ride. A longer ride might have been a bit of a problem today. I do see Dr. Steve tomorrow and I’ll be asking him to overhaul my left side — and will see if he has any comment on training & keeping the wheels on the wagon for the BTC. Of course, I’ll pass anything I learn along to you so we can better plan the next two weeks.<\/p>\n
I didn’t push it and I relaxed into my riding as much as possible. It never really got better, but I was able to ride through it. On the climb up to Loveland Pass, I stopped briefly twice and put my leg up on my bike and STTTTTRETCHED over in an attempt to get my glute to ‘thaw’. It did seem to help.<\/p>\n
Most of the ride I was in upper Z2 and since I couldn’t recruit my big butt muscles, my HR didn’t get into Z3 much or Z4 at all. But, I can’t say that my lack of Z3\/Z4 was all because of my muscle issues. When I do a long climbing ride, I strive to go at a pace that I can sustain all day. For me, historically that means riding at a HR between 115 and 135. I uploaded everything to Strava.<\/p>\n
Today, I felt like I was going miserably slow. I looked thru my old ride logs and the only time I could find on it was a 2008 ride where I had a ride time of 3:14:21. I know I’ve done it faster than that since then. Today’s was 2:55:22. So, even though I felt like I was wading in molasses, I must’ve at least been moving forward most of the time. I’m sure the fact that I felt like I was at odds with my body the entire time has a lot to do with my perception of the ride. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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