2010.03 - the UCI approach

Originally, this week was supposed to be my base 1 rest week. However, since the last four days of last week were spent sitting listening to lectures, I figure I'll just jump straight in to Base 2. Since I wasn't able to work out my weekly plan for this week by monday, I've decided this week I'll take the UCI approach to training - that being, it's less about the letter of the training plan, but more of the spirit of the training plan. Hopefully next week I'll adhere more closely. Also, one of these weeks I should start my weight training plan. All in due time.

Monday: Approximately 1hr freeform workout. Started hard, but dropped off a little by the end. I felt like my fitness was waning a bit, perhaps from the four days off.
Distance: 20.45 mi
Time: 1:11.52.67
Speed: 17.1/35.1 mph
HR: 163/186 bpm


Tuesday: Rode with Karl today. Felt strong today. Which is completely at odds with yesterday. I don't know what's going on with that. We did one sprint, which you can see as the spike in the data at around 25 minutes in. The official training plan said to do some tempo today, so I did some riding home from Karl's house. forgot to turn my garmin on again though, so the data you see isn't the whole ride today. Looking back on monday's data, that seems pretty tempo to me, so i'm cool with it. whatever.
Distance: 25.98 mi
Time: 1:30:32.56
Speed: 17.2/38.4 mph
HR: 154/195 (!!!)


Wednesday: off

Thursday: rollers? nope. another day off.

Friday: The worst ride idea I ever had. Met up with Karl near port jeff, rode down to bellport for the friday kreb ride. met up with four other riders along the way, and then rode home. I don't think it got above freezing the whole time. from about halfway through the ride to the end, my legs were shot. I get days like this from time to time, I'm not really sure why. I'm sure skipping dinner the night before and then staying up late thinking about a girl didn't help, but whatever. I'm sure i'll be stronger for it. or set myself further back in my training. i'll add a pretty graph later. EDIT: graph added. I start sucking at 30 miles, pick it back up, and then just about die on the ride home, which you can see as my heartrate going straight down. also, i can't figure out how garmin decides the scales on these graphs at all.
Distance: 71.74 mi
Time: 4:24:33.52
Speed: 16.3 / 32.1 mph
HR: 164 / 188 bpm

Saturday:nada, errands and work all day.

Sunday: strength work, some rollers. oh yes, and shovelling.