It had been a 5 days since I was on the bike. Still doing the daily pullups and pushups but a lot of time on my butt practicing, the musician lifestyle not as conducive to fitness than the full time sprint training lifestyle. I've often said there are great parallels between music training and athletics, but where they are different is time. Even in the most intense week of sprint training, I might up put in to 12 hrs a week between track, bike, and weights... 6 days a week. For concert preparation it can be easily 30+ hrs a week and always 7 days a week. There are no days off. It's repetitious and methodical.
Have gained significant weight. Was waking up at 142-143. This morning hit a month long high of 146.8. I'll be able to correct that.
Bike climb yesterday was not "easy" ... never is, but I didn't push hard as I did last week. Wanted to keep my HR lower. It was cooler, heat index in mid 80ºs instead of mid 90ºs.
Roark's Cove bike climb
Total time - 25:10
Avg speed - 5.6 mph
Max HR - 176
HR over 170 - 4:54
Avg HR - 159
Last weekend, HR on this climb was over 170 for 11:37 vs 4:54 min by comparison, and over 180 for 1:36, and almost 3 min slower. Afterward I went to the track and did a little stretching.
I need to do a more 2.5 mile sprints on my road. On Thurs had a weird issue with my left knee, I did some squats before I went to bed and it was sore when I woke up, almost bad enough to cause a limp. It went away and feels fine now.
Weather continues like summer, 90ºs forecast and no rain for the coming week.
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