The workout thread
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wrote on 14 Jun 2020, 21:16 last edited by
Went from the 7 mile straight to a 21 mile today.
Man! This feels great. Legs are definitely sore. Some nice hills on this ride.
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wrote on 14 Jun 2020, 21:30 last edited by
Yesterday's ride was a new record in terms of elevation for me.
This is the area where I rode. Man, that was beautiful.
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wrote on 14 Jun 2020, 21:43 last edited by
That´s great, Mark! Sore legs is a great feeling.
Klaus, I´m jealous of those views, but that looks like some tough biking.
I really do miss biking sometimes. I stopped doing it when I moved out of the country and never got back into it, mostly because of my dog (she runs/hikes/kayaks with me). My plan is to get one of those bike trailer things for kids when she can´t run with me anymore and take her out on rides. We´re not quite there yet, but at almost-10 years old I´m guessing we´re not too far off. In the meantime, I do still want to get my bike (my trusty old steel-frame Miyata touring bike) tuned up and start getting back into it. At this point, though, it probably needs a lot more than a tune-up.
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That´s great, Mark! Sore legs is a great feeling.
Klaus, I´m jealous of those views, but that looks like some tough biking.
I really do miss biking sometimes. I stopped doing it when I moved out of the country and never got back into it, mostly because of my dog (she runs/hikes/kayaks with me). My plan is to get one of those bike trailer things for kids when she can´t run with me anymore and take her out on rides. We´re not quite there yet, but at almost-10 years old I´m guessing we´re not too far off. In the meantime, I do still want to get my bike (my trusty old steel-frame Miyata touring bike) tuned up and start getting back into it. At this point, though, it probably needs a lot more than a tune-up.
wrote on 14 Jun 2020, 22:51 last edited by@Optimistic said in The workout thread:
That´s great, Mark! Sore legs is a great feeling.
I’ve always thought it depends on why they’re sore.
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wrote on 14 Jun 2020, 22:54 last edited by
True that.
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wrote on 15 Jun 2020, 00:13 last edited by
Wow Klaus! Awesome ride. I will get back to that level soon enough. Today was a stretch for sure. But the bar has been set.
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wrote on 15 Jun 2020, 01:21 last edited by
Nice, Klaus!
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wrote on 15 Jun 2020, 22:44 last edited by
@Klaus That is very cool. A good ride!!
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wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 22:26 last edited by
Turned the home cinema man cave into a pain cave.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 22:32 last edited by
Jan Ullrich is drafting off of you.
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wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 22:55 last edited by
Where was that when I visited? One of the emptyish rooms downstairs?
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wrote on 8 Jul 2020, 23:14 last edited by
If I remember correctly, Ms. NYC spent the night in that room.
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wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 00:58 last edited by
@Klaus Do you have some program that shows a bike race that you follow along with?
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wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 03:38 last edited by
I have a feeling Klaus knows his way around Zwift island.
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wrote on 9 Jul 2020, 06:22 last edited by
Yes, I'm using Zwift right now. I'm not sure whether it's the best program for what I have in mind. I don't really care for the "social" aspect of Zwift. I don't want to race. I want to do structured training.
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wrote on 27 Jul 2020, 15:16 last edited by
Ha, says the guy who rode 150 miles last week!
Garmin was being held up by some ransomware attack, and I was too lazy to manually upload, so several days worth just went up at once.
But yeah, the general pattern is:
Monday--10/11 miles at 'whatever'
Tuesday--Track workout. (between warm up/cool down, active recovery and actual "work" ends up being 10-12 miles total)
Wednesday--Easy 6 or so
Thursday--A fairly 'zippy' 10/11 miles
Friday--Easy 6 or so
Saturday--14+ w/group
Sunday--10 to 15There's generally 18-25 miles of running w/the Mrs in there also. Sometimes it's in addition to the above, or we use her run as my recovery run. Ends up being around 70 miles per week.
I'm not really sure how well how this would line up with any particular race plan, but for now I'm having fun.
Are you trying to get back into some running? Or have you been running all along, but you don't (gasp!) post it on Strava?
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Yes, I'm using Zwift right now. I'm not sure whether it's the best program for what I have in mind. I don't really care for the "social" aspect of Zwift. I don't want to race. I want to do structured training.
wrote on 27 Jul 2020, 17:10 last edited by@Klaus said in The workout thread:
I don't really care for the "social" aspect of Zwift. I don't want to race. I want to do structured training.
Remind me again, Klaus, what nationality are you?
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Ha, says the guy who rode 150 miles last week!
Garmin was being held up by some ransomware attack, and I was too lazy to manually upload, so several days worth just went up at once.
But yeah, the general pattern is:
Monday--10/11 miles at 'whatever'
Tuesday--Track workout. (between warm up/cool down, active recovery and actual "work" ends up being 10-12 miles total)
Wednesday--Easy 6 or so
Thursday--A fairly 'zippy' 10/11 miles
Friday--Easy 6 or so
Saturday--14+ w/group
Sunday--10 to 15There's generally 18-25 miles of running w/the Mrs in there also. Sometimes it's in addition to the above, or we use her run as my recovery run. Ends up being around 70 miles per week.
I'm not really sure how well how this would line up with any particular race plan, but for now I'm having fun.
Are you trying to get back into some running? Or have you been running all along, but you don't (gasp!) post it on Strava?
wrote on 27 Jul 2020, 17:19 last edited by Klaus@Rich said in The workout thread:
Or have you been running all along, but you don't (gasp!) post it on Strava?
Oh, rest assured that if I could run like you do I'd post it everywhere!
I suck at running. On a good day I can run 6-7 miles, but I need an hour for that and then I'm done for the rest of the day.
The good thing about cycling is that I can do it way longer. I can control the intensity. With running, one can run slower, but even at a slow pace it's too exhausting for me to do it for hours. Last Saturday I burned 2000kcal on a group ride. Couldn't do that with running.
In the long term, I'm also a little worried that running wouldn't be good for joints etc., but I hear rather conflicting things about that issue.
