Apr 24, 09:13 AM by Steve | Training 4/14-4/20

This week it took me a little longer to put this together, mostly because I’m lazy, but also because I got a new Garmin Edge 705 and started using the HR strap with it instead of my Polar, and it was complicated trying to reconcile the data. Some of the difficulty was that I switched halfway through the week, and the rest was because they don’t report data in the same way. With that out of the way, the over-analysis can begin.

I felt good going into Sea Otter, well rested but not any stronger than usual. True to form, I was dropped on the climbs after a few laps. I thought more people had dropped out of the road race behind me, but that turned out not to be the case and I was nearly DFL. The circuit race again hammered home the point that its the repeated anerobic efforts that do me in. Eventually they wore me out and snapped me off the back.

Note that it looks like I have a lot of hours for this week, but looks can be deceptive. Much of it was either after Sea Otter, or very easy riding with Kim. I got a few good hard efforts in early in the week and then took a bit of a rest before leaving for Sea Otter. The annoying thing about Sea Otter was that I had the long road race early Friday morning, and the shorter circuit race late Saturday evening. I wasn’t exactly sure what to do with myself the rest of the time but I knew sitting around the hotel room all day Saturday would just be asking for trouble. We had been up here before her Vineman a couple of years ago, and rememered a good breakfast cafe, and she wanted to return, so we rode to there and then along the scenic 17 mile drive. We got back just in time to shower, check out and head over to the venue.

Heart Rate Data
Total time: 19.6 hours
Below 50%: 2:00:28
Zone 1 (50%-55%): 2:31:02
Zone 2 (56%-69%): 6:10:32
Zone 3 (70%-79%): 4:19:51
Zone 4 (80%-89%): 3:47:43
Zone 5 (90%-99%): 0:49:16
Calories burned: 17,545

Summary
Total: 325.99 miles, 20.0 hours, 22,389 feet
Racing: 64.67 miles, 3.5 hours, 6,901 feet
Average (all days): 46.57 miles, 2.8 hours, 3,198 feet

Rides
M: .75 hr morning recovery spin, 0.75 hr TT warmup, 27:58 TT
Tu: 1.3 hr morning tempo ride, 1 hr lunchtime hammerfest
W: 0.75 hr crit practice
Th: 0.75 hr morning easy spin with a few “openers”
F: 0.5 hr warmup, 3 hr road race
Sat: 3 hr easy ride with Kim, 0.5 hr warmup, 0.5 hr circuit race
Sun: 3 hr “worlds”, 3 hr easy ride with Kim

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