I'm starting to feel quite good on my bike now - yipee!
I went for a ride in the Peaks last night. To be honest - the ride from my house to where I really intended the ride to start (if that makes any sense at all!) was the hardest bit. I've been trying really hard in the last week to try to exercise in my lower heart rate limits as usually I just go as fast as I can for as long as I can (I just have one speed and that's "eyeballs out!") so I was really careful as I started my ride. The hills as I leave my house to get to the road out to the Peaks are horrific though and the quality of the roads means that my equipment gets rattled around all over the place (and my bike gets knocked around a bit too).
Once I got out, though, I rode really smoothly up and down a few of my favourite hills. I really felt like the turbo training was paying off.
This evening I was a bit short of time so went on the Turbo trainer for a shorter session than I've been doing lately. I went back to doing a 21 minute set of intervals like I had been doing three weeks ago. The pleasing thing was that I was able to keep my legs going round through the "hard" minutes whereas before I had been slowing down significantly.
I think a lot of the improvement I see when I am doing these things is down to psychological factors and confidence - rather than being afraid of getting tired and not being able to continue I know that I can carry on at a certain level for a while and survive the little bit of pain that I use to think was going to be a lot of pain.
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sounds like things are going well. I do envy how easy it is for you to get to the peaks etc. I know I've got the cotswolds but it doesn't feel quite the same.
Also you should be careful about rattling your equipment in public. you can be arrested for that sort of thing ;-)
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