After a week of relaxing and riding, I was ready to get back to my usual training schedule.\u00a0 Yesterday morning, I decided to ride the geared bike first thing and try the Powertap wheel and new cable routing.The workout was somewhat short and meant to serve as a wake-up call to the vacationing legs. I hit the prescribed numbers, but felt a little sluggish. No big deal- I figured it was just the “waking up” process.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah… and the shifting is awesome now. Hopefully I’ve solved that one for good. The powertap, on the other hand, is getting a warranty replacement on the freehub because the two bearings inside seized up sometime during\/after Ryan rode it in the Syllamo’s Revenge 50.<\/p>\n
Anyway… I thought I’d be good today. I awoke to thunderstorms this morning, but since it’s (finally) warm out, I headed out for my long ride after the worst passed and the rain was steady and thunderless. I felt fine, but should have known better when I passed through a space\/time gap early in the ride (you know- where you space out for a minute then are somewhat disoriented when you snap back). I did my best to ignore my brief lapse of awareness and continued on my way.<\/p>\n
An hour and a half later, I started to feel exhausted. I sent a text to my coach and asked for advice, and in the meantime, attempted one of the prescribed intervals. It wasn’t good. I checked my phone and saw the advice that I probably should have figured out on my own: “Go Home.”<\/p>\n
So, I did. It rained more. When I got back, I laid down in the shower and almost fell asleep. It wasn’t a total wash of a day- I still had 3 solid hours of steady riding. The rain was fun, too.
\nNow, I’m laid back on the bed eating a Kashi pizza and watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos on Hulu with a snoring dog and farting kitten. I finally figured out how to get my computer and my phone to talk to one another, so I’ll get some photos of all sorts of things posted tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n
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