Nearly 3 hour 50 mile ride on Saturday as planned. It felt good to get out on the bike for a longer ride again. The goal was to take it somewhat easy yet make it challenging. Say a tempo zone. I felt pretty good the first 2/3 of the ride but the last 10 miles or so I would have just as soon been done. It really seems that for the speed I was going I was working harder than I should have been. In fact, I compared this ride with the same exact route I did one year ago. I did about the same speed and power but my heart rate was higher this year than the same ride last year (153 bpm vs. 144 bpm). This is consistent with my feeling that I was working harder than I think I should have been for the pace I was riding. I’m still not sure things are quite right with me. With all the work I have done this year I would have thought I would have been further along. Although, looking back my year to date hours are slightly down this year compared to year. Mostly due to illness. Too much of it this year. So I guess that could explain things.
Or maybe I just had a bad day.
Oh well, here is the ride.
50.49 miles, 2:53:10, 2507 ft ascent, 192 watts avg power, 153 bpm avg hr, 2157 calories, CTL 60, TSB -17.
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