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I Am Woman, Hear Me...

Apr 20, 2008
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Whimper after too long out of the saddle of my road bike?

I am sore, but I am so glad I got off my fat arse and rode with Justin and brother-in-law, David, today.

GPS track, and my heartrate & cadence data for today's ride

According to MotionBased.com, where I log all my outdoor rides, it has been two MONTHS since my last ride--how in the hell did that happen? I did some indoor training rides since then, but they don't show up on MotionBased.com to help my "motivation through publication" since their site is a little crippled in that it won't log rides that lack a GPS track, even if they have cadence (and thus speed + distance) and heart rate data.

Anyhow, the ripe whipped my overly ample arse but in a good way and I am starting a new week feeling energized and ready to try, again, to lose all this excess "baby weight".

Justin's heartrate and cadence data shows his fitness level & my lack thereof -- his heartrate zone was 2.6 avg on the same ride that kept me at 4.4 (of 5 zones!)

Assemble Bike Trainer: Check

Feb 19, 2008

The eagerly anticipated bike trainer arrived today, and after some choice words that I hope not to hear from my 11-month-old's lips anytime soon, it is fully assembled and my road bike is firmly (one hopes, anyway) mounted to it.

I had planned to use the kiddo's blue mats underneath the entire bike footprint, in case of grease from the chain ring or from the bike trainer itself, but that didn't leave me much clearance below my rear tire when I'm on the bike, so out that plan went. No wonder they charge $50 for ultra-thin rubber mats to go under bike trainers. Oh well. I figure a towel or two will serve the same purpose, and maybe once I lose some weight the bike+trainer won't sink so far on the mat? (Hey, a chick can dream!)

So, I plan on logging my first bike trainer ride tomorrow, although my Garmin cadence & speed sensor for my Forerunner 305 won't be in for a couple more days--so I won't have distance data; thanks to the 305, however, I will have heart rate data so I can focus on achieving/maintaining target heart rate zones during my indoor training rides.

I haven't planned my workouts yet, but I hope to log at least three rides during the week and either an indoor trainer ride or a real-life road ride with Justin on the weekends. That'd be four sessions of solid cardio that I just plain am not getting right now.

Hopefully, the kiddo will think watching me spinning away on the bike is high entertainment, and I will be able to get in 30-, 45-, 60-minute workouts. We'll see if popping her in her exersaucer or bouncer works, or if I have to devise an elaborate Toddler Containment Unit with our existing self-supporting baby gates (still need to buy a hardware-mounted one for the top of the stairs.)