On The Road To Nowhere

Well, 45 minutes on the indoor bike trainer in the garage, which amounts to the same thing.

I've abandoned plans to do long, steady state sessions on the indoor mag trainer - I just can't do it, even with some sort of video distraction. I find it even worse than the treadmill in terms of boredom factor. Doubtless, if there is an afterlife, there is an indoor trainer sitting in a particularly airless and hot part of hell with my name on it. Probably with an uncomfortable seat.

Anyway, with the Gold Coast 100 coming up in a couple of weeks, thought I'd keep the theme of crammed preparations going by restarting my interval training on the aforementioned indoor trainer. I find I can do up to about an hour of these sessions, as long as I keep the reps between 1 to 5 minutes.

Took a quick resting heart rate (43 - good, considering it's late afternoon after a day at work on my feet), weight (83.8kg. Oops), so as to establish a baseline for the coming months. Whacked on the heart rate monitor and fired up the trainer.

I use the fifth gear on the rear derailleur, and the big cog on the front - a cadence of 90 gives around 30km/h. Effort at a cadence works out to low 40's or so, which feels commensurate with the effort.

So, the session went as follows (level refers to the level on the mag trainer:
Time Interval Level Cadence
0:00:00 0:05:00 1 Easy
0:05:00 0:05:00 2 Easy
0:10:00 0:01:00 3 90
0:11:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:12:00 0:01:00 3 100
0:13:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:14:00 0:01:00 3 110
0:15:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:16:00 0:01:00 3 120
0:17:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:18:00 0:01:00 4 90
0:19:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:20:00 0:01:00 4 100
0:21:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:22:00 0:01:00 4 110
0:23:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:24:00 0:01:00 4 120
0:25:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:26:00 0:01:00 5 90
0:27:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:28:00 0:01:00 5 100
0:29:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:30:00 0:01:00 4 90
0:31:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:32:00 0:01:00 4 100
0:33:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:34:00 0:01:00 4 110
0:35:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:36:00 0:01:00 3 90
0:37:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:38:00 0:01:00 3 100
0:39:00 0:01:00 2 Easy
0:40:00 0:01:00 3 110
0:41:00 0:04:00 2 Easy
0:45:00 Finish

Average heart rate 133 (inc warm up and cool down), peak 173. Pretty warm in Brisvegas today, so sweated up a storm.

We're on our way.

Oh yeah, the massage went okay. Hips are a little rotated and the right hammie niggle was a little more serious than I initially thought, but feels like it's sorted. Back in three weeks.

I use Kath Phillips at Toowong Village Physiotherapy Centre (but she also practices in the city now), in case anyone was wondering.