My Week in Training – Week 25

Date	Miles	Time	Type	Avg Speed (MPH)	Links
Mon, 20th Jun 2011		1hr	Turbo		Garmin
Tue, 21st Jun 2011	52	2:50:16	Road	18.4	Strava – Garmin
Thu, 23rd Jun 2011	52	3:03:56	Road	17.1	Strava – Garmin
Fri, 24th Jun 2011	25	1:28:57	Road	16.6	Strava – Garmin
Sun, 26th Jun 2011	52	3:09:20	Road	16.6	Strava – Garmin

Monday started off as a bit of a miserable day and didn’t really improve at all, with rain in the afternoon. At least the wind had stopped. I just did an hour on the turbo in the garage.

Maximum Heart Rate – Part 2

In early January, I wrote a post about the different ways of calculating Maximum Heart Rate.

I said that you can either calculate your Maximum Heart Rate (MHR) by using one of the many different formulae or by actually taking a MHR test.

My Week in Training – Week 5

Date	Miles	Time	Type	Avg Speed (MPH)	Link
Mon, 31st Jan 2011		1:00:00	Turbo	Level 2	Garmin
Thu, 3rd Feb 2011	52	3:08:09	Road	16.7	Garmin
Sat, 5th Feb 2011	24	1:32:50	Road	15.9	Garmin

After Sunday’s lengthy, cold and windy ride, I decided to spin my legs out in an easy Turbo session. Just as well as my legs felt much better for it afterwards.

My Week in Training – Week 2

Date	Miles	Time	Type	Avg Speed (MPH)	Link
Thu, 13th Jan 2011		1:00:00	Turbo	Level 2	Garmin
Fri, 14th Jan 2011		1:00:00	Turbo	Level 2	Garmin
Sat, 15th Jan 2011	26.63	1:37:28	Road	15.2	Garmin

Due to work commitments and the weather, I haven’t been able to do much until Thursday when I went to the London Bike Show. It was a bit disappointing as it wasn’t very well attended; not by visitors but by exhibitors. Compared to last year’s Earls Court show, it was probably only a third of the size. As compensation, the Bike Show tickets got you into the Outdoors show as well as the boat show. When I got back home I did an hour on the turbo at Level 2.

Training Strategy

Back in 1993, I started Time Trialling as a member of the Charlotteville Cycling Club. Nothing too strenuous, just 10s and 25s with a single 50 miler once a year as part of an inter-club competition between the Charlotteville and 2 other cycling clubs. For training, I was just doing the miles, nothing scientific. Just riding my bike on the road as much as my home/work life would allow me.

After a while, my results in local Time Trials were no longer improving at the rate they had previously. I can’t actually remember any of my times as I have since thrown out all my training logs (Tip #1 – Never throw away your training logs).