Bike, Ski, Swim, or Lift?

Yesterday I kind of felt like I had a sore throat. So, I cut my cardio session at lunch to 40 minutes of riding at tempo followed by my typical core workout of assorted exercises and crunches and skipped my night workout. Today is my day day off from "working out". I still will walk at lunch but no formal workout.
 
Nice going SBS.

When on an mtb, I prefer a mtb helmet which has much thicker padding inthe rear (if you fall over backwards), is more square, less streamlined and has less holes. In fact, I use a mtb helmet on the road for the greater protection. The fact that it has fewer holes is a benefit as it keeps the noise down.

And those are real nice (translation: expensive) roadie Sidi shoes. They were not designed for offroad use and won't give you much traction and are so stiff that it is damn hard to walk in if you have to walk up a hill.

If you can get mtb stuff, it would serve you better, but you are doing fine otherwise.

Sorry, didn't mean to nitpick, but I'm not cleared to work out so I spent too much time on this forum...
 
Nice going SBS.

When on an mtb, I prefer a mtb helmet which has much thicker padding inthe rear (if you fall over backwards), is more square, less streamlined and has less holes. In fact, I use a mtb helmet on the road for the greater protection. The fact that it has fewer holes is a benefit as it keeps the noise down.

And those are real nice (translation: expensive) roadie Sidi shoes. They were not designed for offroad use and won't give you much traction and are so stiff that it is damn hard to walk in if you have to walk up a hill.

If you can get mtb stuff, it would serve you better, but you are doing fine otherwise.

Sorry, didn't mean to nitpick, but I'm not cleared to work out so I spent too much time on this forum...


hehehe, I appreciate your comments, but you are mistaken. Those are actually Sidi mountain bike shoes, and that is a great mtb helmet...one of the top of the line! You don't have to worry about me. I've raced mountain bikes at the professional level and have more than adequate gear...too much of it in fact!:)
 
Saturday I rode my mountain bike for almost 2 hours on some trails east of town. The climbing is semi technical with lava rock gardens everywhere so it's slow going. I had an awesome day!

Sunday I skate skied for about 20km in spring like conditions. HOT!
 
I've started looking at my race schedule for the coming season (I still do a limited # of races to keep my sponsorship). The first is May 24 - I'm doing a 12 hour mountain bike race with my husband. After that, I'm doing a road time trial series which should be interesting because I've only ever done 1 road time trial ever!

Right now I'm trying to stay healthy and not catch what everyone else around me has. For that reason, I cut my workout down to just one today because I feel funny somehow.

Tempo ride for a bit over an hour and about 60% of my max. My legs were feeling a bit heavy after two days of leg centered cardio but by the end of the ride they were loosened up.

50 bicycle crunches
50 trunk rotations while standing on those squishy disk thingies holding 10lb ball
2X25 Exercise Ball Abdominal pull ins
3X25 leg press @110
3x25 Hamstring curl @90
 
26.51 miles of road riding after work. I like how it's light until past 7:00 now! I passed a giant herd of deer grazing in field just outside of town and then further up the road on the little climb one jumped right out in front of me and we just stood there and stared at each other before it gently walked away.
 
I missed a couple workout posts but will just pick up with yesterday.

As I sat at work watching big soft snowflakes plummet to the ground I got antsy and decided I needed to be up at the mountain. So, I left and went skate skiing - spent about an hour out there and felt awesome.
 
Worn out..that's what I was after yesterday and the skate ski workout I did. 25km of skate skiing of which about 14km were on new over groomed trails (about 3" of new!) So, my legs got and extra workout and the climbs out from the depths of the earth were hard.
 
42.34 miles of road riding yesterday. I started out when it was barely 35 degrees but it warmed up to around 45 pretty quickly. Awesome ride with good views. I kept it pretty steady and my heart rate between 135-155 except for one spike on a hill climb. Great day.
 
Wooweeee

3100 meters.. yes, the longest to date. That's almost 2 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I crammed that into 62 minutes and am dead tired right now.
 
After work routine - rode 16 miles and then did upper body workout though I took it easy on shoulders because I was tired from swimming. I'm considering riding in a local century this Saturday but not will have to see how my knee feels.
 
Woot woot - after work I hit the gym and rowed for a 20 min warmup at 150+ watts. I was trying to use a lot of hamstring in each stroke instead of bending my knees and sliding every time. Afterwards was lower body weights. I'm still taking it kind of easy with leg press - did just 130 pounds for all three sets of 15.
 
After a quick 20 minutes of eliptical trainer I did upper body weight last night. Saturday is the 100 mile preseason bike ride so I'll be sticking to my normal routine of taking Friday's off from all working out.
 
HELL NO. It was 19 degrees when I was supposed to start the 100 mile bike ride yesterday. There was no way I was riding in that kind of cold so i waited until 11:30 when it had warmed up to 36 and then rode. I only got in 66 miles because I had somewhere to be at 4. still, good solid day of cardio.
 
wow how long did 66 miles take you??

Jackie xx
 
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