I'm alluding to the fact that I had not been on a any two wheeled craft since last Thursday's night ride and am feeling pretty satisfied with today's 30 plus hammer fest in the hot hot sun today. Kingston makes it easy to choose your weapon of choice.....winds of 30-40 plus mph in a direction that would make the most optimistic become suicidal. Mountain bike it was. I decided to donn my Louis Garneau green and white jersey and bib short for some kicks and loaded up my pockets with heed and bottle rack with pepetuum (cafe latte) and headed out to see how the body would react to my neglect of fitness over the wknd...
I was anticipating some fatigue due to heat, headwind (initially) and generally poor fueling today, due to a mad session in front of the computer hammering out reports....but ALAS, legs were spinning rhythmically and heart rate/breathing was steady and in reserve..
Made the quick decision to turn left vs right to lengthen the ride to a 30 k vs 20 k loop and had some fun dialing in to some U2 and Oasis.....highly recommend Oasis for some trail bashing. Was dipping and diving, leaning and counterleaning heavily around corners like a tactician. All was feeling great. Cleaned the new technical rock garden climbs and had one experience where I hit a sharp right from double into single track in a 4-wheel drift resulting in ricoccheting off a sign post and a tree.....but it felt......right :) quick assessment....no pain, blood etc :) and borderline bonking the last 5 k back along lake Ontario and refueling with the remainder of my perpetuum and some recoverite.
Stats:
Polar:
1 hr 49 min
33.5 km
avg spd 18.4 km....yup confirmed....was definitely hammering :)
max spd 36.8
Timex:
1 hour 51 min = 3 min of pausing to adjust MP3 player :)
In Zone 24 min
avg HR 84%; Peak 97%; Min 47%
1835 Calories
Plan.....play it by ear re: weather......
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