January 5th, day after my first attempt at running we (Frank & Fil) joined me in the sweat shop for a session extra ordinaire...Frank had purchased a couple of cycling vids over the break and was jonesin to try them. We figured the climbing vid of virtual Mt Lemmon climb would be a good choice. After a good 20 minute warm-up passing intermittently passing around some chocolate covered coffee beans (thanks Molly) we got into errrrr.
So for anyone happening to come across this blog, let me quickly describe what is happening here..We have our bikes attached to resistance trainers on our rear wheel. Some magnetic resistance and others fluid type resistance. Essentially the resistance is guided by our gearing and also with the added resistance from the magnetic cable resistanc (mine and molly's). This video required an hour plus of slow cadence (80 rpm) climbing (virtually) in a gearing that was one away from the toughest possible. The last 10 minutes of the video required an all out effort and resulted in some pretty good stats as a result:
1 hour 45 min
144 avg HR 180 max
In zone 1 hr 13 min; above 24 min; below 7 min
1143 Kcal
81 avg Cad....right on the money baby..max 112
Thursday was a chill day and Friday had an hour of hockey to work on that good old fashioned hand eye foot coordination :) Today was jammed full of kiddy activities inclusive of Gymnastics and then brunch with friends and then quickly transformed to sliding. I had a blast at the hill with the kids.....ensured I did some wind sprints pulling the little suckers up the hill :)
Tomorrow...drop the kiddies off at folks and meet a whole wack of people for an xc ski at the local trails..just downloaded a cool app on my phone which should give me some data (although mellow as will be with wife and friends) of XC ski. Next week should be a great opp to crank things up a notch with the addition of some night skiiiis as well as some potential outdoor rides in the snow ;)
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